RSS
 

Archive for February, 2005

Mozilla disables native IDN support

15 Feb

In an idiotic move, Mozilla has decided to disable native support for IDN domains.

I personally have been able to get dozens of people to convert to Firefox because it supports IDN domains, by disabling IDN without notice you are not only making my life a living hell (because people will complain and I have to listen), you are also taking away one of the key reasons for people to use Firefox.

Many domain registries and hosting providers even recommend Firefox on their websites because it supports IDN.

I realize it has been disabled for “security reasons“, but I suspect it will take years for domain registries to find a solution to IDN spoofing.

Big mistake Mozilla, this one will come back to haunt you.

 
2 Comments

Posted in Browsers, Hosting

 

New imports for Serendipity

14 Feb

Today Garvin committed lots of new import-modules for Serendipity. So if you’ve wanted to try out Serendipity, but didn’t want to loose your old entries, now is a good time to convert :)

The following import-modules are currently bundled:
– WordPress 1.2
– MovableType
– Nucleus
– Textpattern 1.0rc1
– pMachine Pro 2.4
– boastMachine 3.0
– b2Evolution
– sunlog .04.4
– geeklog 1.3.11

The new importers are included in tomorrows snapshot, any feedback can be provided in our forums.

 
No Comments

Posted in Serendipity

 

Supersized Serendipity hosting in beta

14 Feb

Jannis Hermanns has been working hard on creating a Serendipity hosting project, entitled Supersized.

It’s now in beta, so go check it out if you want a quick and easy way to get a great blog setup :)

 
No Comments

Posted in Serendipity

 

Trackback spam hits

01 Feb

Stupid spam companies have started using trackback spam.

I got about 120 trackbacks with links to a casino. All trackbacks were auto-moderated by the spamblock plugin which meant they weren’t displayed to any users. So all-in-all it didn’t really do anything, becides forcing me to clean up.

Deleting them through the comment manager took less than 30 seconds, using the mass-delete feature.

I personally don’t really mind, but we’ll see if we can figure out a way to detect these bastards, but it’s hard when you can’t subject them to captcha approval.

Kris and Sebastian has more dirt

 
1 Comment

Posted in Serendipity