2011 Nov 21, 11:00
A bug came up the other day involving markup containing <input type="image" src="http://example.com/.... I knew that "image" was a valid input type but it wasn't until that moment
that I realized I didn't know what it did. Looking it up I found that it displays the specified image and when the user clicks on the image, the form is submitted with an additional two name
value pairs: the x and y positions of the point at which the user clicked the image.
Take for example the following HTML:
<form action="http://example.com/">
<input type="image" name="foo" src="http://deletethis.net/dave/images/davebefore.jpg">
</form>
If the user
clicks on the image, the browser will submit the form with a URI like the following:
http://example.com/?foo.x=145&foo.y=124.
This seemed like an incredibly specific feature to be built directly into the language when this could instead be done with javascript. I looked a bit further and saw that its been in HTML since
at least HTML2, which of course makes much more sense. Javascript barely existed at that point and sending off the user's click
location in a form may have been the only way to do something interesting with that action.
uri technical form history html 2011 Nov 17, 3:30
Describes forward HTTP headers to explicitly list proxying information that might otherwise be lost.
technical ietf http http-header proxy 2011 Nov 17, 1:06
Mime-type for describing the difference between two JSON resources (in JSON using JSON paths)
technical mime mime-type json ietf 2011 Nov 14, 8:24technical json ietf 2011 Nov 14, 7:51
Includes ‘511 Network Authentication Required’ for airport/hotel/coffee shop scenarios! Am I too excited about this?
technical ietf http http-status-codes 2011 Nov 14, 5:28technical https ietf 2011 Jun 21, 1:22"This document defines the concept of an "origin", which is often used
as the scope of authority or privilege by user agents. Typically,
user agents isolate content retrieved from different origins to
prevent malicious web site operators from interfering with the
operation of benign web sites. In addition to outlining the
principles that underly the origin concept, this document defines how
to determine the origin of a URI, how to serialize an origin into a
string, and an HTTP header, named "Origin", that indicates which
origins are associated with an HTTP request."
ietf reference technical web browser user-agent webbrowser origin 2011 May 22, 10:44Links to the IETF draft document of and describes the perf benefits of SSL False Start.
security google browser web webbrowser https performance ssl tls technical 2011 May 22, 10:38One step closer to completely deprecating the original URI spec by pulling out the ftp URI scheme specification into its own new updated spec!
uri url ftp uri-scheme ietf rfc reference technical 2011 May 22, 10:36Notes and suggestions for private use fields in protocols and formats.
ietf rfc protocol technical private-use 2011 Apr 6, 3:52Humorous quote from the doc: "While we readily agree that the naming of IPv6 address parts is not the most pressing concern the Internet is facing today, a common nomenclature is important for
efficient communication."
humor technical ipv6 name documentation ietf rfc 2011 Apr 5, 3:23Best practices for Comet style polling in HTTP.
technical rfc ietf http streaming polling 2010 Dec 15, 10:02The OAuth 2 spec still in progress.
specification reference ietf spec oauth technical 2010 Dec 13, 11:12Used to generate publicly verifiable random numbers. For instance to pick 'xn--' for the IDN prefix from a set of prefixes, they decided on a hash, a set of stocks and a time in the future to
generate the hash from the stock values. The resulting value is random and anyone can check the work to verify that it was chosen randomly.
Although, now looking back from the future I can't verify that they didn't generate this data after the stock quotes came out. And they're using MD5...
rfc algorithm random election ietf technical 2010 Dec 8, 6:44Description of how they picked 'xn--' as the ACE prefix for IDN. Shockingly elaborate =)
idn technical ace encoding unicode rfc ietf 2010 Sep 30, 2:48A surprisingly readable and delightfully accurate summary of the history of MIME in the web followed by proposed next steps. Sounds like a plan to me! "We need a realistic transition plan from the
unreliable web to the more reliable one. Part of this is to encourage senders (web servers) to mean what they say, and encourage recipients (browsers) to give preference to what the senders are
sending."
mime contenttype browser web ietf reference history mimetype mime-sniffing sniffing technical 2010 Jul 1, 10:51"Sometimes it’s hard to judge whether an engineering effort has been successful or not. It can take years for an idea to catch on, to go from being the butt of jokes to becoming an international
imperative (IPv6). Uniform Resource Names (URNs), which are part of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) family, are conceptually at least as old as IPv6. While not figuring in international
directives for deployment, they-and the technology engineered to resolve them-are still going concerns."
ietf urn uri history technical internet url 2010 Jun 20, 1:16"This document specifies relation types for Web links, and defines a registry for them. It also defines the use of such links in HTTP headers with the Link header-field."
html http rest url uri meta reference technical link ietf 2010 Jun 9, 3:31"A 'geo' URI identifies a physical location in a two- or three-dimensional coordinate reference system in a compact, simple, human-readable, and protocol-independent way."
technical geo uri url ietf rfc standard
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