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What is not AJAX?
Not everything involving browser scripting is AJAX. The following two things are not AJAX: Yellow fading effect on web pages Downloading and running an executable in Internet Explorer if you have your Internet Zone security level set to low.
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Tracking web users
Again, this will be something new here (at least for me): I’ll publish a pre-rant for Security Now! Steve Gibson expressed interest in the subject of cookies, so I’ll tackle that in this post and also the more general question of user-tracking. I discuss different ways it can be accomplished, ways you could protect yourself…
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Creating random passwords – the easy way
Passwords are used as the main authentication method in almost all of the current websites. They are easy to implement (from the websites owner point of view), however the user must consider several conflicting goals if s/he wants to stay safe: Passwords should be long The user must be able to remember the password It…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #61
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. And here it an other episode which starts out great and is at average better than the previous episodes, but still some mistakes slip in. About the new, as of yet unpatched Windows flaw: I couldn’t find any information on it, so I’m not sure…
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How to publish a good looking code on Blogger?
This article is considered obsolete. Please read the followup post. From time to time I would like to publish a post in which I can show code snippets. However the standard <code> or <pre> tags look way too boring. Something with color stands much more out. I was thinking: if I had my own server…
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Pimping my blog #2
After observing that most of my visitors (45% currently) use Internet Explorer, I’ve made a little modification so that they to can enjoy the <q> tag. A more detailed discussion and other solutions can be found at the List Apart site. I’ll only present in short my version. My version consists of two parts: a…
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Delaying the loading of elements in a web page
After listening to the latest Practical Webdesign Magazine podcast (I listen to every one of them as well as the Boagworld podcast, both being great podcasts), I felt the urge to write this post :). When you include many third party things in your webpage, the loading of it can be slowed down considerably if…
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(Yet an other) Javascript random password generator
Here is YARPG (Yet Another Random Password Generator). Why on earth would I do yet an other random password generator? Because I can :). Seriously: there are at least two random password generators out there that I’ve used, and I have some problems with them: The one that Steve Gibson created can not be customized…
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Bye-bye DHTML Editing
While browsing on the MSDN website, the following article caught my eye: Replacing the DHTML Editing Control in Windows Vista and Beyond. It seems that starting with Windows Vista the fast and dirty way to add WYSIWYG editing to your web pages with IE won’t be available any more because the needed ActiveX component won’t…