Hijacking links with Hijax

Hijax, a buzzword originating from Jeremy Keith, basically describes the way how to make use of JavaScript to intercept (or hijack) hyperlinks on your website to pass them to AJAX in order to load just a part of your website with the respective content instead of reloading the whole page.

For accessibility reasons, we apply the progressive . . . → Read More: Hijacking links with Hijax

Large thumbshot of monitored websites

Thumbshots of websites are attractive but most of the time they are too small and you can hardly see anything making you think what’s the point of having a thumbshot if you can’t even recognize the website due to the miniature size. This is why we decided since the beginning to use quite big (300 pixels . . . → Read More: Large thumbshot of monitored websites

Monitoring the reverse DNS of your website

A simple but very useful feature has been added yesterday to HTTPMon: reverse DNS lookup. Explained in a few words, HTTPMon will do a reverse DNS lookup of your website’s IP address to find the name associated to it, if there is one of course. This is a simple query where the DNS server resolves an . . . → Read More: Monitoring the reverse DNS of your website

First bug found in Opera with JavaScript keydown event

The very first HTTPMon bug has been found and already corrected. Luckily this bug is only present when using the Opera browser and would prevent a user from entering a website in the monitoring input field on the left of the HTTPMon interface using the enter key. The monitor button would work but impossible to submit . . . → Read More: First bug found in Opera with JavaScript keydown event

Unofficial testing launch of HTTPMon beta version

Today is the very first day for the front-end website of the HTTP Website Monitoring Tool also simply and shortly called HTTPMon. The backend engine has already been running since now three months collecting test probes from various websites around the world. The website is fully functional and very fast thanks to the AJAX technology. Nevertheless . . . → Read More: Unofficial testing launch of HTTPMon beta version