Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Really nice writeup on the conflict between Microformats use of abbr with hCalendar and accessibility: The datetime-design-pattern is a way to show a readable date (such as “March 12, 2007 at 5 PM, Central Standard Time”) to humans and a machine-readable date (such as the ISO 8601 formatted “20070312T1700-06”) to the Microformat […]
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Ajax security: FUD or fact?
from_future_import has a post stating that Fortify’s recent Ajax alarm is more FUD than fact. Money quote in this one: And MOST importantly the exploit is only applicable to JSON that also happens to be valid JavaScript code. Was it FUD or fact? A bit of both. The benefit of the paper is the fact that […]
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Find your exit points
The first time I stayed in a hotel was when I was 12 and I and my brother met my father for holiday in Hawaii. We’d stayed in motels before–this was the era of the auto vacations–but never a multi-story hotel, where you accessed your room using an elevator. When we got to our room, […]
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Ajax vulnerability
Ajax developers should check out a report on Ajax vulnerabilities in several Ajax libraries, and download the extensive advisory. The advisory details the vulnerabilities, and how to protect against. It’s always a bit risky to put out such details, but I, as a developer, really appreciate such because it allows me to better understand how to protect against […]
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Baseline library
I’ve only downloaded it and started playing, but I like the idea of a JavaScript library based purely on implementing standards. Small and lightweight, Dean Edwards’ base2.DOM provides a good baseline for development without worrying about interesting proprietary extensions and recalcitrant browsers. Not that I’m naming names. Edwards’ library does provide support for the older 5.x […]