Re: [xml-dev] Visualizing data - www.kartoo.com

On 31 May 2002 at 20:02, Mike Champion wrote:

> [OT plug -- the reason I paid the $39 to buy Opera is very simple:  I can run with popups, plugins, animated gifs, and 
> all the other rot that generally makes my head hurt turned off, and then change preferences (e.g., to look at 
> kartoo.com) simply by hitting F12 and selecting a setting to toggle."  Mozilla makes it possible but painful to disable 
> popups, and AFAIK it's impossible in IE without disabling JScript completely, and I've never figured out how to disable 
> Flash in IE.  Sigh, I suppose Opera will be sued for allowing people to violate their implicit contract with the 
> advertising industry ....]

As long as we're plugging...

I'm able to do much the same with IE (or any other browser) using a 
wonderful tool named WebWasher (www.webwasher.com).  WebWasher also 
filters out ads, flash/shockwave and web bugs, controls animations 
and avoids referers and URL prefixes.