One of the joys of testing with IE8 is the added google time that I get to spend hunting down bugs and solutions. If you find something mesbehaving in Redmond's browser, then the Internet knows about it and has a fix somewhere.

Anyone who can work in two in-context Monty Python references deserves to be read.

While testing some updates to one of our Facebook applications today, I ran into an odd error message on IE8.  The error message mentioned KB927917, and is caused by trying to modify the DOM before it is built.  At first, I was confused, because the app is not modifying the DOM at all, its a redirect that is part of the authentication step.  The culprit code was something like:

 Google's approach to speeding up the web, explained by Kimsall below, is in stark contrast to Microsoft's approach to trying to dominate the web 12 years ago. Google's approach can cut  pageload times about in half, and can really help large and complicated sites that make a lot of requests.

You would think something named "Domain Name Registration" would be boring service that the overwhelming majority of Internet users need not think about. However, GoDaddy thinks that may not be good for business, and their latest media blitz has caused me to rethink how I spend my money. I must confess I tolerated their titillating super bowl ads, mostly because I was too lazy to switch, I thought the process would be tedious and cumbersome (boy was I wrong, more on that further down).

If you use Google Analytics, Asynchronous Tracking is now available.  This is a faster way for pages to send data to the mother ship, and was announced at the end of last year.  The GA module for Drupal is working on supporting the new tag, in fact a patch is available if you want to run on the absolute bleeding edge.

Wondering what's new in CSS3 and HTML5 that is bound to make your life easier, and maybe make you really ditch support for IE6 and maybe IE7?  Read this article from Smashing Magazine for an excellent overview.  It's hard to keep up with the changes that are becoming available in modern browsers and this article summarizes them all and provides links to learn more about each one.

Particularly in emails? I'm curious, and while I'm a fan of cleaner, and short, urls, I can't find any evidence to support my hunch. If you're sending links via email, and the url is not hidden behind an href, do complicated looking urls get less clicks? I suspect they would, because users will ignore them if they look to complicated. A short URL can give useful scents regarding the destination.

Jakob Nielsen looked at URL's as UI ten years ago. Do you think his advice still holds?

If you missed it, today the new FCC Chairman made a significant announcement regarding "Preserving a Free and Open Internet."  Hint, here's one way to start - don't lock everything up in a PDF, but thats not the point.  The stated purpose of the policy is