Adblock Plus and (a little) more
What should happen to the mailing list? · 2006-11-17 02:24 by Wladimir Palant
I am seriously considering killing Adblock Plus mailing list. It receives several spam mails every day that I have to remove from the queue. The real traffic on the mailing list is very low if compared to what I get as Bugzilla reports, blog comments or private mails (and I don’t want to even try comparing it to the forum traffic).
Upgraded to Textpattern 4.0.4 · 2006-11-05 23:05 by Wladimir Palant
Textpattern 4.0.4 has been released and now I upgraded this site. RSS encoding issues have been fixed so that I could drop one of my patches — good. Textpattern now has what looks like decent support for the Last-Modified header, yet it shows the date when anything has been changed anywhere on the server — could be better. Some forms will probably need to be changed, I already had to tweak the comments display. But what I am mostly worried about are the changes to the Textile markup module which is the most fragile part of the whole application. Right now the HTML code of the pages is cached but once I start editing them I’ll probably have to fight invalid markup again. Please watch out for anything on this site that isn’t working/showing up as it should and drop me a mail if you notice something.
Deutsche Übersetzung von adblockplus.org endlich (fast) komplett · 2006-09-01 17:28 by Wladimir Palant
For those not speaking German: this is the announcement that the German translation of adblockplus.org is finally complete.
Eine gute Nachricht für alle deutschsprachigen Besucher von adblockplus.org: die deutsche Version der Seite ist endlich komplett. Ausnahmen sind lediglich die Dokumentation der nsIAdblockPlus-Schnittstelle, die nicht übersetzt werden sollte, und Änderungslisten für ältere Versionen — diese sollten auch irgendwann übersetzt werden.
And we proudly present: The Deregifier! · 2006-08-23 00:26 by Wladimir Palant
After years of regexp mania we now have to go back to simple filters — starting with Adblock Plus 0.7 those are more efficient than regular expressions. This doesn’t mean that regular expressions got any slower, it’s that simple filters got very fast. There are also other advantages a dozen simple filters have over one long regexp. They are simply easier to read, “effective filter” in the blockable items tooltips presents more relevant information (one rule instead of the whole regexp), we get hit counts for every filter that is also more relevant, and we can deativate every simple filter separately if it causes problems.
New web tools for Adblock Plus · 2006-08-20 01:27 by Wladimir Palant
I opened a new web site section called Web tools where I put the three web-based tools for Adblock Plus users I wrote recently.