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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web | WIRED

Not surprised, but still somewhat stunned by this news. Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web | WIRED.

Today’s WebDev Trivia Quiz

According to the W3C standard, an HTML script tag should have a type attribute, who’s value should be a MIME/content type. Although commonplace, we (web developers) almost always write this (incorrectly) as the value “text/javascript”; now – without looking – does anyone know what it actually should be?

Still Using Firebug?

As a web developer, I hadn’t decided to focus on front-end work until another developer told me about Firebug. When I started targeting mobile, I switched to the Developer Tools suite (DevTools) built in to Google’s Chrome browser. Two years later and I’m just beginning to realize what I’ve been missing. I was on the /r/javascript forum on RedditContinue reading “Still Using Firebug?”

Fix for IE Choking on flashremoveCallback

I’ve been getting a Flash issue in IE. The problem only appeared in IE (all versions) and not in any of the other browsers. I’m not sure if this is because Microsoft’s jScript engine is super-compliant or super-buggy. But we figured out what the problem was. The issue we were having dealt with the HTMLContinue reading “Fix for IE Choking on __flash__removeCallback”