Monthly Archives: April 2005

The effects of browser settings on web analytics

Posted on April 17, 2005 by

Modern web browsers give the user some degree of control over their privacy and security settings. These can have a major impact in trying to measure how web site’s are used either through preventing web analytics products from registering the … Continue reading →

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Reliance on cookies in web site user tracking

Posted on April 12, 2005 by

In the field of web analytics, one of the permanently hot topics is how to track a user’s activity on a web site accurately with the information that the technology available to us is able to provide. There are two … Continue reading →

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Deleting page elements using removeChild in JavaScript

Posted on April 11, 2005 by

Here’s a handy(?) script to delete pieces of any page you’re on when you click on them: javascript:document.onclick=new Function(‘e’,’document.all?src=event.srcElement:src=e.target;src.parentNode.removeChild(src);return false’);void(0); Go to any page on the web, paste it into the address bar of your browser and then start clicking … Continue reading →

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Bionic eyes not too far away

Posted on April 5, 2005 by

It’s not quite Steve Austin and Bionic Man territory but this story about a bionic eye that will let blind people see is very sci-fi all the same.

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