Ramblings & ephemera
As some of you may have heard, Google has announced its own web browser, Chrome. It’s releasing the Windows version today, with Mac & Linux versions to follow. To educate people about the new browser & its goals, they release a 38 pg comic book drawn by the brilliant Scott McCloud. It’s a really good [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Two methods: about:config Change browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true browser.tabs.loadInBackground should already be set to true user.js // open diverted links in background tabs user_pref(“browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground”, true); Related posts Warnings about invalid security certs are ignored by users Test of Flock’s blog editor What actions change MAC times on a UNIX box? Vista & Mac OS X security [...]
Posted on December 24th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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From Federico Biancuzzi’s “Phishing with Rachna Dhamija” (SecurityFocus: 19 June 2006): We discovered that existing security cues are ineffective, for three reasons: 1. The indicators are ignored (23% of participants in our study did not look at the address bar, status bar, or any SSL indicators). 2. The indicators are misunderstood. For example, one regular [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Clay Shirky’s “The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview“: The systems that have succeeded at scale have made simple implementation the core virtue, up the stack from Ethernet over Token Ring to the web over gopher and WAIS. The most widely adopted digital descriptor in history, the URL, regards semantics as a side conversation between [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Jesse James Garrett’s “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications“: Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS; dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; data interchange and manipulation using XML and [...]
Posted on April 8th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Dive Into Mark“: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 working draft from April 24, 2002. Only 3 weeks old! The overall goal is to create Web content that is Perceivable, Operable, Navigable, and Understandable by the broadest possible range of users and compatible with their wide range of assistive technologies, now and in the future. [...]
Posted on February 21st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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I’m trying out a new web browser – Flock – which is basically Firefox with social software tools baked in, such as blogging, Flickr, del.icio.us, & so on. Basically, all the stuff I use anyway. So far, Flock looks pretty interesting, although I’m not yet sure at all that I would use it for my [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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I host Web sites, but we’ve only recently [2004] had to start implementing SSL, the Secure Sockets Layer, which turns http into https. I’ve been on the lookout for a good overview of SSL that explains why it is implemented as it is, and I think I’ve finally found one: Chris Shiflett: HTTP Developer’s Handbook: [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2004 by Scott Granneman
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One of the arguments anti-open sourcers often try to advance is that open source has just as many security holes as closed source software. On top of that one, the anti-OSS folks then go on to say that once open source software is as widely used as their closed source equivalents, they’ll suffer just as [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2004 by Scott Granneman
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