We’ve heard a lot about optimizing CSS, HTML and JavaScript but one thing that is less talked about is how much extra information image editors put into image files. You might think you’ve done a great job optimizing your GIFs, PNGs and JPGs while still keeping them visually pleasing but when you use a text […]
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Mark Pilgrim, in his latest episode on This Week in HTML 5, got into an interesting topic indeed: clickjacking.The big news this week is the disclosure of a vulnerability that researchers have dubbed “clickjacking.” To understand it, start with Giorgio Maone’s post, Clickjacking and NoScript. Giorgio is the author of the popular NoScript […]
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Bill Zeller and Ed Felten have published a report on Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks on popular Web sites:We found four major vulnerabilities on four different sites. These vulnerabilities include what we believe is the first CSRF vulnerability that allows the transfer of funds from a financial institution. We contacted all the sites involved and gave […]
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Natalie Downe gave a talk at BarCamp London on CSS Systems as a wait to maintain your style. She goes into details on how she goes about setting up her CSS on a project:A CSS System is a reusable set of content-oriented markup patterns and associated CSS created to express a site’s individual design. It […]
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Ben Putman has put together a nice iPhone Safari 3D navigation menu example that shows off the transforms and events available on the latest mobile Safari.Ben told us:In thinking of an interesting test, I’ve created a menu that you can rotate across a fixed y-axis with touch, allowing you to spin the menu around […]
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Mikael Bergkvist was frustrated with how effects in different browsers were far from uniform. They could run around in a modern browser, and lag on old ones. In general many effects seem to be far from smooth, and we have talked about the need to have a Timer thread that you can tie into to […]
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Just as jQuery kicks off its first jQuery conference adjunct with The Ajax Experience in Boston tomorrow, it gets an energy boost from some big double-barrel news:Microsoft and jQueryMicrosoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Their JavaScript offering today includes the ASP.NET Ajax Framework and they’re looking to expand it […]
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Right now you can use Flash to work around a lot of JavaScript limitations and many products use an invisible Flash movie to for example batch upload files (Flickr, Wordpress), play movies in a screenreader accessible manner (with DHTML controls outside the main movie - Yahoo Video, for example) or automatically add content to the […]
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Ian Hickson gave a great presentation at Google where he just sat down, opened up Emacs, and started to build demos on the fly that use HTML 5 features. His goal was to use browsers available today (albeit nightlies and such for some of them) to show progress…. so no future tense!You can watch the […]
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Stephen Stchur has written great posts in the past about cross browser events, and has revisited the topic with The Ultimate addEvent function article.You get to use the function a la:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: var myDiv = document.getElementById(’myDiv’);xb.addEvent(myDiv, ‘click’, function(e) { alert(’The this keywords works (even in IE!): ‘ + this.id);}); and he has some nice commentary:So some of […]