Social news site Digg recently released the DiggBar — a frame that sits above any content linked with Digg’s new URL shortening service, containing various Digg functionality.
Some like the DiggBar, while others resent the idea of their site being enclosed in a Digg-branded frame. TechCrunch founding editor Michael Arrington considers it very useful. Tech writer John Gruber calls the DiggBar hyped B.S. and posted a special DiggBar-only version of Daring Fireball that flips off the service in no uncertain terms (language not safe for work). The sharp-witted Merlin Mann equates the DiggBar to an uninvited party guest.
Zap the DiggBar with JavaScript
Bloggers, web developers and anyone else with a website who feels that the DiggBar oversteps the bounds of being a good citizen of the Web can disable the DiggBar with the following JavaScript:
if (window.self != window.top) {
top.location = self.location.href;
}
The window.self object reference points to the portion of the browser containing your site, while window.top refers to the topmost window (where DiggBar resides). If your site is loaded inside a frame such as DiggBar this comparison will fail and your site will be re-assigned to the topmost window, making the DiggBar history.
