We often talk about how to make our websites more usable, whether it’s tweaking the HTML structure of pages to benefit the user’s process or figuring out how best to display a message via CSS. But we never bring this thought process into our jQuery-based (and other JavaScript-based) elements. How can we enhance the user [...]
Archive for April, 2010
How WebKit loads a page
An interesting read on the Surfin’ Safari Blog: Before WebKit can render a web page, it needs to load the page and all of its subresources from the network. There are many layers involved in loading resources from the web. In this post, I’ll focus on explaining how WebCore, the main rendering component of WebKit, [...]
Peter Costello & APN shake up
Peter Costello has surfaced in his first corporate stoush since trading Parliament for the boardroom, lobbying Ted Harris, the deputy chairman of APN News & Media, for board renewal. The former treasurer, a partner at the advisory firm BKK Partners, has met Mr Harris twice as his firm tries to secure a vote against the [...]
Page auto-refresh an issue in ad talks
Advertisers and media buyers are considering penalising websites that use auto-refresh in future advertising negotiations as publishers have so far failed to set rules governing the controversial practice. The Interactive Advertising Bureau will soon release industry guidelines on the issue after the practice of automatically refreshing the content and ads on web pages at set [...]
Google fined for defamatory message on networking site
Google has been fined $US8500 ($9100) in Brazil after an anonymous internet user posted defamatory messages on one of its sites against a priest, calling him a “paedophile”, media reported on Sunday. A court in the state of Minas Gerais ruled in favor of the 54-year-old priest, identified by his initials J.R., after rejecting Google’s [...]
iPad apps to be included in circulation figures?
Ahead of Apple’s iPad launch in Australia next month newspaper publishers are pushing for the apps on the device to be counted alongside sales of printed newspapers in circulation figures. Digital editions that mirror physical copies are already able to be counted but must be listed separately from the key circulation metric of average net [...]
Parallel Information Retrieval
Parallel Information Retrieval is a sample chapter in what appears to be a book-in-progress titled Information Retrieval Implementing and Evaluation Search Engines by Stefan Büttcher, Google Inc and Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, both of the University of Waterloo. The full table of contents is on-line and looks to be really interesting: Information [...]
Fairfax to launch free and paid Apps for iPad
FAIRFAX will launch both free and paid apps for Apple’s iPad tablet computer device this year, according to Darren Burden, who is spearheading the initiative for Fairfax Digital. Mr Burden is part of a committee working on Fairfax’s tablet strategy. It includes Robert Whitehead, who is head of marketing and newspaper sales for Fairfax Media, [...]
Whitepaper: 8 Steps to Holistic Database Security
Most of the world’s sensitive data is stored in commercial database systems such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and Sybase – making databases an increasingly favorite target for criminals. This may explain why SQL injection attacks jumped 134 percent in 2008, increasing from an average of a few thousand per day to several [...]
Whitepaper: The Quest for a Cloud Integration Strategy
The advent of Software as a Service and Cloud Computing has revolutionized the software industry by providing access to enterprise-grade software and services via the web to businesses of all sizes. SaaS and cloud environments are characterized by web-based delivery, multi tenancy, and centralized management and updates- completely unlike traditional software. As a result, new [...]