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Part2 - browsersec - Browser Security Handbook, part 2 - Project Hosting on Google Code

2010 Mar 10, 5:19Covers same origin policy and how it applies to different HTML and HTTP features.PermalinkCommentstechnical web browser javascript csrf ajax html security xss XMLHttpRequest

Perfection kills ยป Experimenting with html minifier

2010 Mar 10, 3:40Notes on the features and performance of an HTML minification tool.PermalinkCommentshtml javascript performance toolweb minifier web technical

Encode-O-Matic Update: Compression, Hex View, Quick Show Output

2010 Mar 9, 9:08

I've just put up an update for Encode-O-Matic with the following improvements:

PermalinkCommentstechnical encodeomatic project

Marc Rotenberg: Brandeis in Italy: The Privacy Issues in the Google Video Case

2010 Mar 9, 5:35Comparison of US claim 'the tort of appropriation' to Google video case in Italy.PermalinkCommentsitaly google privacy law legal us technical

A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users

2010 Mar 8, 1:50Paper suggests history stealing to find what popular social networking site groups a visitor to your web site belongs to and stats on how easy it is to then uniquely identify the visitor on the popular social networking site.PermalinkCommentssecurity privacy social social-network paper research web browser css technical system:filetype:pdf system:media:document

ClickOnce Deployment Overview

2010 Mar 5, 12:33ClickOnce is a .NET app deployment technology that lets you easily install apps with minimal user interaction even from the web. This is what Google Chrome uses to install so easily.PermalinkCommentsmsdn technical development security windows .net csharp programming clickonce google chrome

Database - WEBAPPS

2010 Mar 5, 10:21Document explaining the relationship between the various web storage APIs coming out of HTML 5. To summarize:
Web Storage (aka DOM Storage) - simple key/value pairs API.
WebSimple DB API - now called Indexed Database API.
Indexed Database API and Web SQL Database - competing database APIs.
Application Cache - Storage of HTTP resources for offline apps.
DataCache API - A programmatically modifiable Application Cache.PermalinkCommentshtml html5 standard programming technical wiki w3c database storage web

Indexed Database API

2010 Mar 5, 9:32PermalinkCommentsapi database html html5 specification w3c web programming technical

shatterstripes: What is LJ doing to my links?

2010 Mar 5, 2:54LiveJournal replaces affiliate links with their own... Between this and not being able to stick in videos, script, etc maybe its time to switch blogging sites...PermalinkCommentsblog livejournal technical

How to Setup Your Own Web Proxy Server For Free with Google App Engine [Video Tutorial]

2010 Mar 4, 3:05Intro to Google App Engine plus get a somewhat more trustworthy web proxy than you'd normally find on the Internet...PermalinkCommentsapi proxy web google free technical

draft-hoehrmann-javascript-scheme-01 - The javascript resource identifier scheme

2010 Mar 3, 6:15Finally giving the javascript URI scheme its own IETF doc.PermalinkCommentsjavascript ietf url uri scheme reference technical

The Contacts API

2010 Mar 2, 5:25HTML5 Contacts API allows HTML pages access to a user's contacts info.PermalinkCommentscontact business-card html html5 api javascript technical w3c reference

HTML5: HTML elements

2010 Feb 28, 2:41"The complete set of HTML elements is the set of elements described in the following sections."PermalinkCommentstechnical reference html html5 w3c web

Weave Developer Resources

2010 Feb 27, 10:17Weave syncs web browser user data. Its an open platform using JSON data, RESTful URL based APIs, with basic auth over HTTPS.PermalinkCommentsweave firefox web browser mozilla development technical reference

Protecting Browsers from Extension Vulnerabilities

2010 Feb 27, 10:06A web browser add-on security research paper that describes the Google Chrome security model. "We propose a new browser extension system that improves security by using least privilege, privilege separation,
and strong isolation. Our system limits the misdeeds an attacker can perform through an extension vulnerability.
Our design has been adopted as the Google Chrome extension system."PermalinkCommentssecurity design google chrome firefox addon plugin web browser technical research adam-barth system:filetype:pdf system:media:document

Not your father's PageRank

2010 Feb 26, 10:12Interesting stuff about Google determining synonyms based on folks changing their search queries.PermalinkCommentsgoogle search synonym machine-learning english language technical

Adam Barth - adambarth.com

2010 Feb 26, 2:42Adam Barth has tons of papers on web browser security.PermalinkCommentsadam-barth security web browser privacy javascript google chrome research technical

Comcast DNSSEC Trial FAQs

2010 Feb 25, 4:10Comcast is running an opt-in DNSSEC trial for all Comcast customers. Their FAQ covers the incompat. of DNSSEC with their Comcast Domain Helper (typo DNS redirects to Comcast ads... bleh!): "What happens to Comcast Domain Helper, which offers DNS redirect services, when you fully implement DNSSEC? We believe that the web error redirection function of Comcast Domain Helper is technically incompatible with DNSSEC. Comcast has always known this and plans to turn off such redirection when DNSSEC is fully implemented." Yay!PermalinkCommentsdns dnssec comcast faq internet ip security technical

TED Blog: Sergey Brin on Google's China decision

2010 Feb 24, 9:21"Onstage at TED2010, TED curator Chris Anderson interviews Google's Sergey Brin about the company's recent statement on China."PermalinkCommentsted video sergey-brin google china security privacy censorship technical

The appendices of the CSS specification are in alphabetical order [dive into mark]

2010 Feb 24, 4:13Wow, its true... the CSS appendices titles start with the letter of their appendix. The 'Appendix E. Elaborate description of Stacking Contexts' is pushing it though.PermalinkCommentshumor css technical specification reference
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