Digg shows off new look comment system

I have just been browsing around Digg and noticed that something was a little bit different. It seems that they have updated the comment system on stories into a better format.

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I personally think it looks a lot better, its more clear and consice and it also allows you to filter comments to show just yours, or just your friends.

It also seems to make replying and viewing individual comments a lot easier.

All in all a great improvement :o)

Just i was writing this, the Digg blog post explain all the changes hit the front page.

Google Launch Web Developer Encyclopedia

Good old Google, always helping out the little guy when they can, and as such today see’s the realeae of Google Doctype. You would be forgiven in thinking that in their quest for world domination that they have now created their own doctypes to rival the W3 standards, but that hasn’t happened…. yet.

Instead Google Doctype is an online, open source encyclopedia for web developers, and going to the homepage gives you the following info…

Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library of test cases for checking cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.

Google Doctype is 100% open.

  • Open source
  • Open content
  • Open to contributions from anyone

I have had a look around at some of the docs and they are very well written, and just like wiki people can edit them also. I would suspect that you wont get as many errors as you do with Wiki since people in the web development world wont really get much out of wrecking articles for amusement.

So if you want to brush up on HTML, DOM and CSS then go check out Google Doctype

Crash people’s MSN Messenger

Not sure if this still works, but if you want to have a bit of fun/really piss people off then tell them (say it gives their name cool colours or something) to set their name or status (in some cases just get them to type it into the chat window) to this string… n—a_Á—ay±m—aÁÇáç±Çáß±Çá§ÁaÇáDZOÇá—±Ç᧱Çár×ÁÇá+NÇáLáÇá

It buffer overflows messenger causing the user to crash out and not be able to sign back in. Apparently in older versions of MSN it can also crash other chat users who are initiated in a chat session.

Just something random i saw ages ago and see it has started to do the rounds again. Use a third party messenger service such as Adium etc to sign back in and remove offending code.