Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Bloglines, a web based reader, just came up with a proposal to restrict RSS feeds:
http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0
The W3C has a similar (in spirit) proposal to use "?access-control?" instructions in XML standard itself. It restricts access by domain. This idea was also mentioned before by Greg Reinacker.
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
For quite some time, Mozilla-based browsers such as FireFox, Netscape and Galeon had a feature called "pre-fetching". What this feature does is that it enabled browsers to "pre-fetch" any webpage link marked with a ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
A news story and this post are talking about Microsoft's new technology for securing private data:
Microsoft in the coming months will roll out test versions of its latest operating system—code-named Longhorn—and its newest browser, which includes new approaches users can take to protect their identities online, safely swap data, and ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
Recently I ran across a rather strange error with different browser. Popup windows could be maximized in Opera and Mozilla, but not in IE. The code I was using was as follows (click here to try):
window.open('', '', 'width=200,height=200');
After some digging, I ran across the following snippet in MSDN:
When the sFeatures ...
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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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