Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
The current state of play regarding cookies (standard HTTP & Flash/LSOs) and protecting personal privacy is hotting up, and to add an additional burst of heat Samy Kamkar has developed a Javascript API he’s called ‘evercookie‘. It’s a rather robust set of tools that enable numerous mechanisms to try to store/retrieve & repopulate cookies based [...]
The chaps over at Microsoft have published a handy section on supported HTML5 & CSS3 features of the upcoming IE9: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/ff468705.aspx Additionally they’ve also supplied a suite of test applications implementing the new feature set. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=196941 What I’d like to see is some performance tools which are capable of accurately monitoring system/browser performance of these [...]
Chris Black has posted a video comparing rendering speeds of native HTML5/Javascript on the iPod Touch vs Flash Player 10.1 on the Android. As Wired points out it’s not a totally fair comparison BUT does go someway to showing Flash’s capabilities on some mobile devices. Read Chris’s full article here.
The register is reporting that Microsoft has ruled out putting Internet Explorer 9 on Windows XP. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/16/no_ie9_9_on_windows_xp/
As the industry starts to grapple with what the implications of the HTML5 specifications will mean on ad-operations the IAB has been working with major publishers and tech-providers to detail a FAQ which helps explain the potential impact of these proposed standards. http://www.iabuk.net/en/1/html5advertisingfaq.html
IAB teams up with industry’s biggest players to launch guide to advertising in games: http://www.iabuk.net/en/1/guidetoadvertisingingameslaunched150910.mxs
I was recently running through my followers on Twitter (which I apologise for as I don’t do it as often as I should) and discovered I was being followed by http://twitter.com/advalidation. So having signed up for  an account (free) I’ve just started using it for the past few days. http://advalidation.com/ provides an easy to use and [...]
Worth reposting this video from WSJ explaining how cookies and more specifically 3rd party cookies. Original Article: http://europe.wsj.com/video/how-advertisers-use-internet-cookies-to-track-you/92E525EB-9E4A-4399-817D-8C4E6EF68F93.html
This page attempts to bring together some resources that will better explain what HTML5 is, how to go about implement some of it’s features and links to reference material and source code for you to try. It’s primarily a resource where I can dump interesting articles, urls and other information that may help you (and [...]
Ghostery is a new free service/browser-plugin for IE, Firefox & Chrome which highlights many tracking, behavioural & analytics tags (commonly referred to as web-bugs or pixels) on a site’s page. More importantly from our industry’s perspective is that it can also act as filtering mechanism and gives the user direct access to block any/all of [...]
