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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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Britain from Above

Blogs - 8 days ago

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 visuali read more

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Eeking out performance in script loading

Blogs - 9 days ago

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 read more

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tyPhoGraphic: Declarative CSS Transformations

Blogs - 9 days ago

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:
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<div effect="zoomin" du read more

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mod_v8: Another Server Side JavaScript

Blogs - 9 days ago

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 t read more

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Kaazing Gateway 8.12 Battlestar Available

Blogs - 9 days ago

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 sup read more

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A Christmas Wish: “I promise not to use document.write()” mode

Blogs - 13 days ago

While dosing off last night a few conversations stirred up in my semi-consciousness. They were of work arounds and layout issues. Too many were “We have to do this in case a script does a document.write somewhere in the future.”
It’s hard to tell of course. You may include a read more

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Mouse-based Ubiquity: A Prototype and a Failure

Blogs - 14 days ago

We’ve been watching over the last little while as the Humanized crew has leveraged their experience with Enso to create Ubiquity, an in-development command-line interface for the browser. But what about folks who aren’t as enamored with their keyboard as they are with their mouse?
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Playing with a fuzzy monkey; Helping JITs improve

Blogs - 14 days ago

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for (var i = 0; i <0x02000000; ++i) {


  d = 0x55555555;


  d++; d++; d++; d++; d++;


}


 




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