The Britain from Above BBC programme and website doesn’t seem to use the BBC library Glow but instead has nice Mootools effects on the front page and a jQuery Carousel on sub pages.The effects made me feel like I was on a Flash site at first, but the real interest is the amazing visualizations that […]
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The paper on MD5 considered harmful today delivered at the 25th Annual Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin has got people scared again.The team showed an MD5 collision which is well explained by Simon Willison (he is so good at getting to the meat, a tough skill indeed):Use an MD5 collision to create two certificates with […]
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Jeremiah Grossman, our number one Web security chap, has some interesting words as we jump into 2009:It’s unanimous. Web application security is the #1 avenue of attack according to basically every industry data security report available (IBM, Websense, Sophos, MessageLabs, Cisco, APWG, MITRE, Symantec, Trend Micro, SecureWorks, ScanSafe, IC3). This is in addition to reports […]
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John Resig has laid out his thoughts on a Web Developer’s Responsibility, and it comes down to working with various up and coming browser versions and filing bugs:It’s safe to say that the biggest tax on a web developer is spending so much time dealing with browser bugs and incompatibilities. Thus it has become the […]
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Steve Souders has detailed the coupling of script loading with various asynchronous techniques with examples that show the timings that you can get. First he sets the scene:One issue with async script loading is dealing with inline scripts that use symbols defined in the external script. If the external script is loading asynchronously without thought […]
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Paul Querna wrote a fun little Apache module called mod_v8 that offers a proof of concept of Yet Another Server Side JavaScript:After using Rhino for server side javascript at work, I can say I somewhat like server side javascript. Others like Steve were already convinced a long time ago.However, I don’t really like being tied […]
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The demo above is tyPhoGraphic a declarative CSS transformation library.If you check out a demo with a browser that supports the CSS declarations, you can see that the work is done via:PLAIN TEXTHTML: <div effect=”zoomin” duration=”1700″>2009</div><div effect=”zoomout” duration=”1600″ start=”-200″>2009</div><div effect=”wobble” duration=”1000″>2009!</div><div effect=”shake” duration=”1200″>2009!</div> <div effect=”shake” duration=”1000″ start=”200″>Happy </div><div effect=”waggle” duration=”1200″>New</div><div effect=”waggle” duration=”1200″>Year!</div> <div effect=”zoomout” duration=”800″ start=”500″>Party </div><div effect=”zoomout” […]
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Kaazing keeps on moving with its Java Comet server, and just released a new version. It will be interesting to see if real-time connections take off in 2009.Kaazing is happy to announce the second major release of its Kaazing Gateway, an open source HTML 5 web server, which includes support for HTML 5 WebSockets. With […]
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PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: for (var i = 0; i <0×02000000; ++i) { d = 0×55555555; d++; d++; d++; d++; d++;} This code runs 250 times faster when the JIT is enabled in a Firefox with TraceMonkey available.This is just one minor thing that Jesse Ruderman has been able to find as he helps out the TraceMonkey team with […]
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I posted on my personal blog about using the crowd to tell us about browser responsiveness in which I discussed giving developers information about browser responsiveness and how add-ons can affect it:I have had some folks talk to me about responsiveness issues with Firefox 3. I have had a fantastic experience, and currently I run […]
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