Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Last night I have been trying to login into the credit card site for a major US banking institution and to my suprise, nothing worked. I tried out FireFox, Mozilla, Konquerer and Opera. All of them failed but to my suprise one browser worked - LYNX. Yes, the text based ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
The Register and SANS ISC are reporting a major security hole in Java plugin which makes applets work in browsers. This hole allows JavaScript access to stuff which should normally be restricted. ALL BROWSERS utilizing the Java Plugin are affected on ALL platforms including IE, Opera, Mozilla Suite and Firefox. ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2004
As a followup to an earlier mentioned Opera Watch blog, it seems that Microsoft's Internet Explorer team has a blog of their own.
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
For Mozilla and Firefox there is MozillaZine; for Internet Explorer there is Microsoft Watch and now for Opera there is a new blog - OperaWatch. Started by a friend of mine this "Unofficial Opera Blog" seeks to bring you the news on everything Opera.
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Sunday, October 24th, 2004
One of the more fun things in DHTML is dynamic manipulation of page content. An interesting question that recently came up at work was hiding and displaying a single table row. The solution I came up with is pretty simply - set the CSS STYLE tag of the table row ...
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Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Another rather annoying thing I just ran across is the difference in the implementation of the "typeof" operator in Javascript operating on functions. If you create a function in the parent window, assign it to a property of the parent window, and then pass it to the child window, IE ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2004
One of the more boring tasks in DHTML is validation of form data and specifically of INPUT and SELECT boxes. Since both have a ".value" property, we can save time and use the same code for checking both:
if(selectBox.value == null || selectBox.value.length == 0)
{ alert('Nothing selected in select box!'); }
else ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
Recently I had a weird problem while using Tomcat - sessions would get lost when using Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Since Tomcat stores the session id as JSESSIONID cookie, the session would get lost when the cookie is not stored. Same behavior occurs with other web servers including IIS and Resin.
After ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
An interesting NewsForge article makes a very good point about web standards and browser wars:
In my 2002 book, The Online Rules of Successful Companies, I said it was stupid to design Web sites that would work correctly only with the most popular Web browser. Yes, I told readers, over 90% ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2004
Today I came across an interesting problem with my SprintPCS PictureMail account (service for upload and sharing pictures taken by a cell phone camera). When logging in and viewing my pictures from the web, the pictures were small and B/W ... almost like a cell phone. While talking to the ...
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