Posts by themoose

123-Reg customers outraged at automatic .UK domain registration

TSOHOST just did the same thing

TSOHOST just did the same thing. Does this actually come from Nominet?

---------------------------

We are giving you a .uk domain free for 2 years!

We are in the process of securing nottheactualname.uk and any other .uk domain names you have rights of registration to. These will be available for you to manage from November 2017 and will remain yours free of charge for 2 years.

Why am I being given FREE domain name(s)?

As a .co.uk domain name owner you are entitled to its .uk counterpart until June 2019. After this time, anyone can register these domains and compete with your business.

We do not want you to risk losing your .uk domain(s) to a competitor – so we have taken action to ensure your domains are secure for the next 2 years.

----------------------------

And so on...

This might mean that I, and my customers, just got about 70 new domain names between us. Also means I need to click "disable auto-renew" followed by "yes I mean it" on about 70 new domain names.

Error checks? Eh? What could go wrong, really? (DoSing a US govt site)

Re: jQuery

The reason jQuery is fast is because it _doesn't_ run all those lines of code in most browsers. The browsers have it baked in. Most of that code is "Sizzle" (sizzlejs.com)

"Sizzle" is the reason that rubbish old browsers run jQuery just the same but much, much slower. Those old browsers have to execute all that code in order to emulate the functionality that is built into newer software.

My guess for the funny javascript code - It was supposed to do some sort of image lazy load.

Are Indians too stupid to be trusted with free Internet?

AOL and CompuServe

When I discovered the Internet, unless you were at university or in the military, you got it via AOL or CompuServe. Demon arrived like a breath of fresh air.

How is what these companies are doing in India different to AOL and CompuServe circa 1985? There is a lot of Internet out there, it might be a bit scary, have a walled garden to play in till you find your feet.

AOL and CompuServe came and went and everyone moved on once they clued up.

Uh oh, it's Mobilegeddon! Your site may lose, well, pennies

Re: "Mobile Friendly"

"and I'm mildly curious about Google's idea of 'mobile friendly'."

Shall I Google that for you?

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/helping-users-find-mobile-friendly-pages.html

The criteria are

* Avoids software that is not common on mobile devices, like Flash

* Uses text that is readable without zooming

* Sizes content to the screen so users don't have to scroll horizontally or zoom

* Places links far enough apart so that the correct one can be easily tapped

In other words don't use Flash and design your website in 3 columns for 320, 640 and 960. For full marks make the font get bigger as the screen gets smaller.

If you are _actually_interested_ Google for "CSS media queries".

Https tweak was always billed as "small"

The Https tweak was always billed as "small"

This is being hyped (by the media at least) as a much bigger thing. I guess we will find out soon.

The fact is that Google have go a mobile friendly test tool

https://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

so they are going to some effort.

Also I suspect that the Https change was more motivated by a desire to piss off NSA/GCHQ rather than any particular business requirement. This change may well have some proper teeth to it.

For most small businesses I think that the real issue will be if one of your competitors has media queries and you don't. If no one in your industry is mobile friendly then I suspect the search rankings will stay the same and no one will need to move. We'll see how good Google are when there is a rubbish but mobile friendly site Vs a good, retro site. How will they balance that out?

Google, Amazon 'n' pals fork out for AdBlock Plus 'unblock' – report

Old news to me

Instructions - http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Hosts file - http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

You only have half the story and you are well late with it.

The acceptable ads thing has been around for ages. I looked at the Addblock+ website and it has changed, it used to be pretty obvious that Google were paying for ads to be white listed and the the Adblock guys would quite like more customers of that kind.

All this "Acceptable Ads" stuff and "Manifesto" is new fluff.

I was quite surprised that Google were knuckling under to this sort of protection racket. "Nice ad business - pity if something happened to it." I don't like the white list but bloody good job giving Google a kicking.

Any how here is the rest of it.

I objected to the "acceptable ads" tick box so I bitched on the Mozilla ad-on forum thing and my comment was deleted with a line about "people still complaining". So I tried again in a less critical way and that was silently deleted. Finally I tried not passing judgement but just mentioning the new feature and saying where the tick box was. That was deleted silently too. I don't know who was deleting the comments but - who is Mozilla's main sponsor?

Any way I'm running Adblock+ with "acceptable ads" turned off. I also have No Script, OpenDNS Filtered and my own HOSTS file. Sorry El Reg - no ads here, not even yours.

Fanfare of trumpets as LOHAN reveals mission patch

What is with the easting?

Are you trying to be NASA? What is wrong with a good, honest zero degrees longitude?