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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 WalshJuly 28, 2011
Animating CSS3 Transforms with MooTools Fx
I recently posted an awesome (if I may say so myself) CSS3 / MooTools tutorials called Create a Photo Stack Effect with Pure CSS Animations or MooTools. The post presented two ways, a pure CSS method or MooTools-powered class, to duplicate Google+'s elegant photo stack...
By David WalshMay 7, 2012
Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations
I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel's shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.

Incredible Demos

By David WalshFebruary 17, 2009
Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips Using MooTools
The jQuery homepage has a pretty suave tooltip-like effect as seen below: Here's how to accomplish this same effect using MooTools. The XHTML The above XHTML was taken directly from the jQuery homepage -- no changes. The CSS The above CSS has been slightly modified to match the CSS rules already...
By David WalshOctober 15, 2009
Form Element AJAX Spinner Attachment Using MooTools
Many times you'll see a form dynamically change available values based on the value of a form field. For example, a "State" field will change based on which Country a user selects. What annoys me about these forms is that they'll often do an...

Discussion

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