There is a new META header being proposed called X-UA-Compatible. It was thought up by Aaron Gustafson and has been added to IE8.
This is a flag for browsers to change how they render the web page, not by standards that are being followed, but by the browser that it is known to work with.
I found this excellent video of Douglas Crockford (discoverer of JSON) talking about the security problems inherent in Mashups and of JavaScript as a whole.
He proposes a solution involving what he calls vats; a self contained JavaScript interpreter with limited communication to the page. The JavaScript in the page would be the only trusted [...]
Well, I just got a nasty shock!
I got in at the tail end of a thread about the new update notification feature in WordPress 2.3.
One of the comments I read kept ricocheting around in my head. Matt Mullenweg said something about the dashboard RSS feeds transmitting my blog URL. I thought, initially, [...]
Here’s a simple recipe to cut down on comment spam in WordPress. I assume you have basic understanding of unix commands or can translate them to windows.
Ever used position: absolute in CSS or JavaScript? You probably got it to work reliably. I have in the past. These were pages that I controlled in their entirety and it worked fine.
But when I tried to use it with It’s All Text! for the gumdrop edit button which in injected into any [...]
A disclaimer: I’m writing this just to share (and record for myself) this one stupid trick in Javascript. While I’m here, I thought I should kvetch about most javascript usage.
First, the stupid trick.
Have you ever been on a page and you try to control-click or right-click on a link only to [...]
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