2010 May 17, 5:05"With speechapi.com's javascript API, it is possible to build interesting speech-web mashups that include both speech-to-text as well as text-to-speech."
api javascript speech speech-to-text technical 2010 May 14, 8:52It really is an actual quote from the Sacramento Credit Union's website: "The answers to your Security Questions are case sensitive and cannot contain special characters like an apostrophe, or the
words “insert,” “delete,” “drop,” “update,” “null,” or “select.”"
Out of context that seems hilarious, but if you read the doc the next Q/A twists it like a defense in depth rather than a 'there-I-fixed-it'.
technical security humor sql 2010 May 10, 9:08A facial recogonition web service. Cool possibilities...
api development free photo face facial-recognition technical 2010 May 10, 7:23"Kevin Frei - Exception Hanlding Cost September 2006 meeting of the Northwest C++ Users Group. Discussion of the assembly language cost of exception handling on the x86 Windows and x64 Windows
platform"
C++ programming language exception microsoft windows performance technical video 2010 May 10, 5:21An old article by Charles Stross on INTERCAL the satirical programming language. It contains great features such as 'come from' the inverse of 'goto'.
c programming humor technical language software charles-stross intercal goto 2010 May 7, 6:29UMP instead of CORS for cross-domain access control: "...a developer can read only UMP and ignore CORS, yet still create safe code. This code can successfully message with CORS resources that do not
require credentials. UMP is therefore a way of messaging with the credential-free subset of CORS resources."
w3c security web browser technical 2010 May 6, 7:43Covers case studies of insecure usage of HTML5 cross-document messaging and web storage.
html html5 web browser security technical webstorage research facebook google system:filetype:pdf system:media:document 2010 May 6, 7:37Includes categorizations of Web advertising including approximate price ranges.
ad advertising web html technical 2010 May 6, 7:25Another subset of javascript and DOM access to make a sandbox: "FBJS is Facebook's solution for developers who want to use JavaScript in their Facebook applications. We built FBJS to empower
developers with all the functionality they need, and to protect our users' privacy at the same time."
sandbox web browser facebook html javascript technical security web-sandbox 2010 May 6, 7:22"Caja allows websites to safely embed DHTML web applications from third parties, and enables rich interaction between the embedding page and the embedded applications. It uses an object-capability
security model to allow for a wide range of flexible security policies, so that the containing page can effectively control the embedded applications' use of user data and to allow gadgets to prevent
interference between gadgets' UI elements."
security web browser web-sandbox caja google javascript html technical 2010 May 6, 7:16"Today web gadgets, mashup components, advertisements, and other 3rd party content on websites either run with full trust alongside your content or are isolated inside of IFrames. As a result, many
modern web applications are intrinsically insecure, often with unpredictable service quality. Live Labs Web Sandbox addresses this problem."
web browser web-sandbox technical javascript html windows live security sandbox microsoft silverlight 2010 May 6, 7:14"ADsafe defines a safe subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, and an interface that allows programs written in that language to usefully interact with a specific subtree of of the HTML
document."
technical ajax javascript json security advertising ad web browser web-sandbox 2010 May 6, 5:48New IDN TLDs are up. Try out http://xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ (aka http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/) in your favorite IDN implementing browser.
idn tld dns icann technical web language 2010 May 4, 10:52On HTML5's extensibility: how does microdata work in HTML5?
via:kris.kowal html5 html microformats semanticweb todo technical 2010 May 3, 7:27Amazon has the most highlighted passages of Kindle users. Of course Dan Brown is all over that. But in 94th place of most highlighted is a passage from the 'Kindle Shortcuts' book on how to highlight
passages: "Go to top Notes and Clippings (Kindle 2) To create a highlight: use the 5-way controller to highlight the content you want to clip and then press the 5-way to save your selection...
Highlighted by 319 Kindle users"
humor highlight amazon kindle technical meta 2010 May 2, 3:14"This document contains normative guidelines for web applications built by the Interface Development practice of Isobar North America (previously Molecular)." Glad to see coding styles and best
practices for HTML, CSS, JS, associated HTTP headers etc etc etc
code css html html5 javascript web browser programming development technical via:kris.kowal 2010 May 2, 2:52'HAR to Page Speed' is a tool that takes a HAR file (Http ARchive) supported by various HTTP debuggers and produces a page speed score. This is a great example of the value of a cross HTTP debugger
file format.
http tool debug performance web technical 2010 Apr 29, 11:59"Over Christmas break I wrote Santa my browser wishlist. There was one item I neglected to ask for: improvements to the browser disk cache." If only it were so simple as to just increase the max size
of your HTTP cache...
performance http web browser cache technical 2010 Apr 29, 11:53"I wrote Gopherbot, a spidering archiver for Gopherspace. I ran it in June 2007, and saved off all the documents and sites it could find. That saved 40GB of data, or about 780,000 documents." Now
available as a compressed 15GB torrent.
torrent gopher internet web technical history archive 2010 Apr 29, 11:51Stats from the State of Web Development 2010 web survey including: "Few respondents use any form of Internet Explorer for their day to day web use, but IE8 is the number one browser developers test
their sites in. Google Chrome has jumped dramatically as the browser of choice for developers, to rank 3rd, at 17% just behind Safari at 20%."
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