Who can name some media which only comes in a 16:10 ratio? Monitor designers of the world; I want 16:9.

As you may be able to tell, I’m monitor shopping, it’s not going well.

For those who are about to not understand a word I say, this is a rant about the way different browsers fail to interpret HTML.

At least the big three are guilty of this (that means IE, Firefox, and Opera).

Some browsers ignore a <br /> at the end of a <div>, what it should do is cause a blank line of text at the end of, and within the <div>, this means the <div>’s background also applies in this line, okay?

Some browsers ignore a <br /> just after a <div>, what it should do is cause a blank line of text just after the <div>, nothing to do with this <div> - other than a margin - should be apparent in this line, okay?

I’m sick of writing: “<br /><br /></div><br />”.

You may - or may not - have heard this, but AVG has a feature, which pre-checks all search results.

Terrific! Unfortunately this means it loads every single page, even if the user is never going to click them.

Up until now, they have used a “user-agent” which identifies AVG, but they have now changed it to exactly match IE6. So we can no longer remove them from statistics, block them, or my favourite; redirect the request to AVG’s own site.

Some pages which feature in a lot of searches are facing a tenfold increase in page requests! So techies: start recommending Avast instead as a free anti-virus, it scores better in ICSA labs testing anyway.

Sauce: El’Reg