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Category: javascript

  • I know what you did last page!

    With the hype around AJAX many people jumped on the Javascript bandwagon and assumed that everything should be done client side (even encryption) and even when perfectly suitable server side solutions exists, people insist on using Javascript. (Just a quick note: I realize that many times a well written client side script can (a) hide…

  • A mixed bag of comments

    A short post of things I found in my Google Reader: A new challenge from the guys over at SANS: The Twelve Days of Christmas Packet Challenge Also there are some vulnerabilities there: All I want for christmas are my exploits…. – my thoughts: you have to be insane to put your DB server on…

  • What you don’t need javascript for – part 2

    Read part 1 of my rant There is a saying in Hungarian: Don’t look at the teeth of a horse you received as a gift. It refers to the fact that you shouldn’t criticize something if you get it for free. However from time to time I feel the need to raise my voice about…

  • Random stuff

    For fun: The Opinionated Beer page: if operating systems were beers. An interesting idea: a search engine with an unusual way to present the results. While the interface is appealing, on the long run it seems an overkill. Also the fact that the first results are advertisements with only very subtle indication of this fact…

  • My time

    Update: you can find a simpler to use solution here. From time to time I find myself reading a blog post which makes a reference to a give date / time (for example when a live stream will be activated). However the problem is that most of the time this reference is not given in…

  • An (almost) Christmas present

    Hello all! After listening to the latest episode of the Hanselminutes podcast (Life Hacks with Gina Trapani), I thought I make a little gift for all of you Hanselminutes friends (a great podcast by the way – if you didn’t listen to it, you should try it): a bookmarklet to highlight certain keywords on the…

  • Myth-Busting AJAX (In)security

    Via Ajaxian: Myth-Busting AJAX (In)security

  • What you don’t need javascript for

    With all this Web 2.0 craze people start assuming that we all have javascript. I have a message for those people: you can have forms without javascript. I know that all those fading and stuff is cool, but if you use the standards more people can use it. Example (I don’t mean to pick on…

  • How to publish a good looking code on Blogger? – take 2

    Update – there seem to be some issues with iframe-s and google reader (in the sense that its not displaying them 🙁 ). I’ll investigate the issue further shortly and hopefully can post a solution. Hello all! First of all I would like to apologize to all of you who in the last couple days…

  • Graceful degradation people!

    I went to check out Less Accounting (because I saw it at the Web 2.0 show). Here are two screenshots, one with javascript enabled and the other with it disabled: Do I really need javascript to submit a simple form? Really? As for the server running the given website, its version number isn’t too reassuring…