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Extending WebKit’s Web Inspector a la Firebug

Blogs - 2 days ago

Alvaro Videla has a fun post on extending the WebKit Web Inspector with something a little strange.... a game:

Alvaro walks through how to take some JavaScript/CSS/HTML and plug it into the inspector world (normally hidden somewhere like /Applications/WebKit.app/Contents/Frameworks/10.5 read more

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SandboxSafari: Keeping the Safari nice and tame

Blogs - 2 days ago

Robert Tomsick has been playing with Sandboxed Safari, a project that aims to let you use the Leopard sandbox feature with the browser, via a little launcher:

When Leopard was released, one of its big selling points was its "sandbox" feature. This garnered a fair bit of attention, as san read more

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“I won’t support IE 6 in 2009″

Blogs - 4 days ago

At a New Years Eve party, a friend help up a drink and toasted to his company deciding to discontinue direct support of IE 6 in 2009, and letting users know that the site may work better with IE 7 or another latest browser.
Then, Asa Dotzer puts up a chart of the IE 6 numbers:

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Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard

Blogs - 6 days ago

Today we are fortunate to have a guest post by Patrick Lightbody, most recently of BrowserMob fame (and previously Selenium work, OpenQA, WebWork, and more). Let’s listen in to him talk to us about load testing, and let him know your thoughts in the comments below:

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UniversalComet: Make any web page a Comet end point

Blogs - 7 days ago

How about if all you needed to do was:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:




 


var server = new Addressable.Server({ useGears: true });


 


server.onmessage = function (message) {
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If you won’t file a bug, maybe test in a screen reader?

Blogs - 7 days ago

John Resig wants us to file bug reports to browser vendors but what about accessibility? Is that a responsibility that we have as Web developers?
Todd Kloots of Yahoo! shows us how to configure our machine for screen reader testing with full instructions:

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MD5 hash collision gets people worried about PKI

Blogs - 7 days ago

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):

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Ajax Experience Videos: Performance and Security

Blogs - 7 days ago

Thanks to the folks at Adobe, we’ve got video of pretty much every session from the Ajax Experience 2008 that we can share on-line, free of charge. We’ll release them over the next week or so in batches. What better way to spend your New Year’s holiday than curled up with a laptop read more

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Web Security: Number one attack vector?

Blogs - 8 days ago

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, read more

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New Years Resolution: File a browser bug?

Blogs - 8 days ago

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 read more

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