Noscript, ad blockers, and ball sweat
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes
A note appeared in the comments section the other day, apparently dissatisfied that I had a NOSCRIPT message asking people to turn on Javascript in their browser. He started spouting all the rhetoric about how “the Internet is free” and “I deserve my privacy” and all that other hippie bullshit. Then he proceeded to tell [...]
Tags: ads, advertisement, Ajax;, ball sweat, form processing;, Google;, internet, noscript, online, search, seo
What’s up with “Beta” websites?
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Editorials
More and more I’m seeing webmasters slap “beta” on top of their website logos. WTF is up with that?
I can understand that this whole “Web 2.0″ thing is supposed to be “web applications” but a website is a website. Microsoft Word is an application. Many websites have a lot of dynamic features using Ajax to [...]
Tags: Ajax;, beta, beta software;, definitive software lifecycle;, legitimate traditional software;, Microsoft;, photoshop, web applications;, wordpress
