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Weekend Links – Firefox 3 Performance, Internet Explorer 8 JavaScript, Google / Microsoft Buying Digg, Social Bookmarking Icons, Referrer Spam

By David Walsh on March 8, 2008

Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost

The only problem I have with Firefox is that it's a memory hog and gets slow after you've opened multiple tabs. This article discusses improvement in Firefox's engine -- sweet!

http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/25/firefox-3-performance-gets-a-boost/

Javascript In Internet Explorer 8

Mozilla employee and jQuery enthusiast John Resig gives his thoughts on Internet Explorer 8's new JavaScript enhancements.

http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-in-internet-explorer-8/

Google, Microsoft Said To Be Preparing Bids For Digg

More rumors have surfaced regarding a Digg sale. Though Digg claims the article is completely inaccurate, I feel a sale is eminent. Too many rumors in the past year for there not to be some truth in them, and Kevin can't turn down $300 million for too long.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/google-microsoft-bidding-for-digg/

Social Bookmarking Icons Collection

Head over to this site to download some "outside-the-box" social bookmarking icons for Digg, Reddit, de.licio.us, and more.

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/social-bookmarking-icons-collection/

Live.com's Referrer Spam Has Left Me In Despair

Live.com, and I'd heard this before, has the tendency to send spammers to you site on basic keyword searches like "about" and "example." The comments of this article provide a solution to preventing this problem.

http://kaioa.com/node/58

Recent Features

By David WalshApril 3, 2013
CSS @supports
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By David WalshAugust 29, 2011
Create Namespaced Classes with MooTools
MooTools has always gotten a bit of grief for not inherently using and standardizing namespaced-based JavaScript classes like the Dojo Toolkit does. Many developers create their classes as globals which is generally frowned up. I mostly disagree with that stance, but each to their own. In any event...

Incredible Demos

By David WalshMay 10, 2011
CSS Rounded Corners
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By David WalshJuly 2, 2012
CSS Columns
One major gripe that we've always had about CSS is that creating layouts seems to be more difficult than it should be. We have, of course, adapted and mastered the techniques for creating layouts, but there's no shaking the feeling that there should be a...

Discussion

Will
Thanks, I’ll have to take a look at those networking icons later.