Still here
and, surprisingly, there are still a few mince pies left.

December saw a fair amount of performance work on the site - operations are now an average of 2-3 times faster than they were in November, with magazine page access and search highlights the biggest winners. There's always more work to do in this area, but the next step will be to relocate the servers back to Europe closer to most of the clients. Leaving performance work for now as we clear up any other loose ends from 08.

Yesterday RubberStamp got an update to handle "fake bold". This is where a page presents bold text not by using a bold font but by repeating each character, once as a filled glyph and again as a stroked outline. The appearance is of a bold character but the text of the page suffers aass yyoouu ccaann iimmaaggiinnee. RubberStamp now watched for this and works around it.

Currently finding out why the clipper's not working in Firefox 3.

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- posted by Tim Bruce @ 3:39 PM