The Usability of Input Filtering
There seems to be much interest lately in input filtering in PHP, especially in cross site scripting prevention. I’ve always preferred input validation to input filtering, but I am giving filtering a...
View ArticleMouse problems with Safari 1.3 after using Expose
I’ve been impressed by the new JavaScript speed of Safari 1.3, but since upgrading to 10.3.9, I’ve started having a problem with using Safari and Expose. After I use Expose to select a Safari window,...
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Harry Fuecks, PHP Patterns and Dynamically Typed
I was reading this post over at Dynamically Typed and I was thinking to myself, this looks like something that Harry Fuecks would write. A glance at the top of the page confirmed my suspicions. Harry...
View ArticleDelicious Outage Link Dump
Del.icio.us has been down for a while. I use it for my public bookmarks, which are listed on the side of this blog. Here is a post with some recent random things that I would bookmark if I could. The...
View ArticleExtreme Simplicity
Could this be the manifesto of “Extreme Simplicity?” 10 fundamental rules for the age of user experience technology: More features isn’t better, it’s worse. You can’t make things easier by adding to...
View ArticleMeta Tag Refresh Faux Paux
If, for some unfathomable reason, you put a meta tag refresh on every page of your site, you may want to consider not putting it on any page with a form on it. Especially a long complicated form. 30...
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Faster Page Loading
Google engineer Aaron Hopkins wrote a good article on page loading times (via Harry). He talks about the impact of AJAX on page load times, focusing on connection limits, latency and the large number...
View ArticleLooking forward to 2007
Well, I’m finally back in town after the holidays. Let me tell you, I’m glad to be home. Between multiple holidays and taking my grandma to her cancer treatments in Ann Arbor, I was gone far too much...
View ArticleYahoo YUI wins JavaScript Library Wars
There is huge web development news from Yahoo today. Yahoo is offering free hosting for YUI components, both JavaScript and CSS. I’ve been favoring the YUI, but this is a great boon. One big drawback...
View ArticleFirefox Extensions for Web Developers
I prefer Safari for my casual web browsing on the Mac, but for web development, nothing beats Firefox. (Firefox beats IE hands down on Windows.) Firefox’s openness and the Firefox plugin architecture...
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