Announcement: How to test local and private content with Adobe BrowserLab

Testing Private or Local content in BrowserLab

A recurring question we get on the BrowserLab User Forums is “How can I test pages that I have on my local machine and/or behind my firewall?”
A public URL is normally necessary because BrowserLab generates screen shots by visiting the page and taking snapshots of it in the actual browser. There are, however, three alternative methods for using BrowserLab that will allow you to test pages that are not publicly available.

Find: Apache webserver updated to ignore Do Not Track settings in IE 10

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Apache webserver updated to ignore Do Not Track settings in IE 10

Developers of Apache, the Internet's most widely used webserver application, have released an update that causes websites to ignore privacy settings in the upcoming release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

The changes, which came to light late last week, suppress privacy settings controlled by Do Not Track, a proposed Web standard that is intended to give end users a simple means to register their request that their browsing habits not be tracked by Websites and ad networks. The patch was written by Roy Fielding, one of the architects of Do Not Track, who publicly accused Microsoft of violating requirements in language accompanying the standard dictating that Do Not Track preferences be sent to websites only when users specifically enable them in configuration settings. Fielding is also an employee of Adobe Systems, developer of the ubiquitous Flash Player.

"The only reason DNT exists is to express a non-default option," Fielding wrote in a post defending the change. "That's all it does. It does not protect anyone's privacy unless the recipients believe it was set by a real human being, with a real preference for privacy over personalization."