2010 May 24, 6:29Installable web apps makes total sense given the Google Chrome OS: "An installable web app is a normal web site with a bit of extra metadata. You build and deploy this app exactly as you would build
and deploy any web app, using any server-side or client-side technologies you like. The only thing that is different about an installable web app is how the app is packaged."
technical web browser webapp google chrome 2010 May 24, 6:26"What You See is What They Get: Protecting users from unwanted use of microphones, cameras, and other sensors," by Jon Howell and Stuart Schechter.
"We introduce the sensor-access widget, a graphical user interface element that resides within an application's display. The widget provides an animated representation of the personal data being
collected by its corresponding sensor, calling attention to the application's attempt to collect the data."
Not sure how well that scales...
technical security privacy research 2010 May 24, 6:25FireBreath is a cross-platform web browser developement framework supporting ActiveX (for IE) and NPAPI (for everyone else).
technical web browser plugin activex 2010 May 23, 4:32"The ability to detect visitors' browsing history requires just a few lines of code. Armed with a list of websites to check for, a malicious webmaster can scan over 25 thousand links per second (1.5
million links per minute) in almost every recent browser."
technical privacy security web browser 2010 May 19, 1:56Google offers up a directory of fonts available for use in your css.
google font technical css typography 2010 May 19, 7:17A creative-commons released comedy album. Heard him on the Nerdist podcast where he played live several of the songs you'd imagine someone having a tough time playing live. Humorous and is that Weird
Al I hear in Street Meat?
music humor mike-phirman cc creativecommons 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, 8:59Iggy Pop interviews Shepard Fairey, including his Obama HOPE poster and AP lawsuit:
"... but the American public is generally pretty superficial, so an image like that just allows them to project whatever limited idea they have onto it. Obviously, not everyone is like that—I
actually think there were a lot of people who were bummed by the image because they felt it was shallow propaganda."
"If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that’s not cool. But the way I make
art—the way a lot of people make art—is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It’s about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting
but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn’t in any way take away from the original—and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience."
art legal law ip shepard-fairey obey interview 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."
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