[UPDATE: I reworked lyteShare into a standalone javascript-thingie] Doing Web Performance can be so easy, really! I was asked to do a performance analysis of a new website and one of the things I didn’t like was the fact that the footer contained social media sharing buttons using the ShareThis widget. I’m not a fan … Read more
A couple of weeks ago I started looking into data-uri’s as a way to further optimize the performance of this personal playground of mine. Testing was easy enough; Autoptimize, the javascript/ css/ html opitimizing plugin I now use in conjunction with WP Super Cache, comes with support for data-uri’s in CSS and switching that option on … Read more
WP DoNotTrack user Marco Donati asked why the plugin did not stop Quantcast from being included in the WordPress admin pages. After some research (with the kind assistance of Marco), I discovered not one but two problems; WP DoNotTrack relies on “output buffering” in WordPress to filter/ modify the HTML when in “Forced (default)” or … Read more
frank shared Firefox’s New ‘IonMonkey’ Speeds Up JavaScript. Firefox’s New ‘IonMonkey’ Speeds Up JavaScript frank liked 2 videos. frank published CSP: doing unsafe-inline the Firefox-way. frank posted Google Chrome Finally Jumps on the ‘Do Not Track’ Bandwagon. frank posted Internet Explorer Could Have a Huge Security Hole.
A couple of days ago I created a small survey to see what people consider sexism (a hot topic currently in the local press and online). For that purpose I embedded a Google Docs Form in an iFrame in a HTML-page on my own site. While following up on the results as they got posted, … Read more
A couple of days ago I had another look at Content Security Policy, a technology that allows a site to tell a browser resources are allowed to be loaded to protect against XSS and some other types of web application vulnerabilities. CSP was originally devised by the Firefoxians, but is in the process of being standardized … Read more
It was long overdue, but I finally came around to releasing version 0.8 of WP DoNotTrack. The main feature to warrant the bump in the version-number, is the addition of conditional filtering based on user opt-out. There is no opt-out UI in the plugin, but it hooks in to “Civic Cookie Control“, a JavaScript-based widget … Read more
Nope, there’s no Private Browsing in my favourite mobile browser (yet). But as I have Firefox Sync activated between my 3 Firefox instances (winXP@work, Ubuntu-netbook@home and on my SGS2), I very much want to avoid syncing some of my browsing history over to my work-laptop. Developing addons for Firefox has become very easy and the … Read more
Notwithstanding the name, using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser isn’t always simple. While working on some issues with WP DoNotTrack‘s SuperClean mode, I encountered these two quirks: By default Simple HTML DOM removes linebreaks. That means that when you write the modified DOM back to a string for outputting, some (sloppy) JavaScript is bound to … Read more
I’m not a developer, I’m just a random guy who was lucky enough to be around when the web started to happen, back in the nineties. And over the years I might have learned a bit about web development, but still I’m not a real developer. And yet, there I am with two WordPress plugins, … Read more