Comments on: CiB Not Harmful http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: simon gray http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/#comment-14024 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:34:25 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1610#comment-14024 it would also be a bit rich of google to be fixing it on to here because of the ajax for the commenting, given most of their work these days is practically 80% running off it.

]]> By: dp http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/#comment-13956 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:15:44 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1610#comment-13956 I saw this Google result for the first time today, and have to say that it’s an irresponsible tactic, particularly if it is highlighting pages that aren’t actively corrupting my machinery. It’s a sure way to drive people away from worthwhile sites. After googling the offending phrase and finding a bunch of stories like yours, I am thinking the line deserves to be replaced with

Scaremongering by Google

Furthermore, I’m not convinced by the Badware site. More hysteria. It looks as though they report sites based on very thin evidence, such as if there’s a link to a site that’s been identified (or misidentified) as corrupt. Bad.

]]> By: simon gray http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/#comment-13928 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:28:40 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1610#comment-13928 i just have the noscript extension & add trustworthy sites to the whitelist as & when i come to them…

]]> By: Pete Ashton http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/#comment-13902 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:55:15 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1610#comment-13902 Simon, Firefox lets you stop scripts from doing that stuff. In preferences where you enable javascript click on “Advanced” (on the Mac version anyway).

Screengrab:
http://skitch.com/peteashton/jaed/picture-2

]]> By: Jake Grimley http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/#comment-13888 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:44:41 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1610#comment-13888

s’cos there’s too many websites which want to do things like shake your browser, move it about, & resize it to the size *they* want you to have your browser rather than the size *you* want it, innit.

Simon. Dd you last have javascript switched on in about 2001 by any chance?

]]> By: simon gray http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/#comment-13885 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:15:45 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1610#comment-13885 s’cos there’s too many websites which want to do things like shake your browser, move it about, & resize it to the size *they* want you to have your browser rather than the size *you* want it, innit.

]]> By: Pete Ashton http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/#comment-13880 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:30:40 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1610#comment-13880 This’ll be where I get amazed that people surf the web with javascript disabled, but I gather it’s not that usual. It’s probably the fancy Ajax comment box not degrading gracefully so I’ll look into it. Eventually.

]]> By: simon gray http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/04/17/cib-not-harmful/#comment-13873 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:12:16 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1610#comment-13873 is it just me with firefox right here right now, or does the new version need javascript enabled in order to post a comment ?

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