Date: 04/20/07 (Security)    Keywords: browser, web

Zero-day vulnerability in Safari Web browser used to commandeer a MacBook in hack-a-Mac contest at CanSecWest conference.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6178131.html

Date: 04/22/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

Snap.com provide capability to allow web viewers to get a image preview of pages behind the links. While it sounds like an advantage, in my experience it is a major distraction while viewing the site. Recently I was in Ryan Boren’s site which uses snap for link preview. The article was interesting but the big [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/snap-is-a-big-distraction-in-site-usability/

Date: 04/23/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser, web

Browser-based shortcuts that let you type in keywords to go a Web site have been around for a while. OpenDNS says it has a better idea that also happens to be free.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6178231.html

Date: 04/23/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: css, html, web

The floats in my layout fall apart in ie6 and i cant figure out why.

http://nikibrown.com/webclass/stitchnbitch/index.html

http://nikibrown.com/webclass/stitchnbitch/snb.css

thanks!

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/403517.html

Date: 04/23/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, html, web

The floats in my layout fall apart in ie6 and i cant figure out why.

http://nikibrown.com/webclass/stitchnbitch/index.html

http://nikibrown.com/webclass/stitchnbitch/snb.css

thanks!

x-posted to all the places with helpful people

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1248315.html

Date: 04/23/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: software, browser, security, virus, antivirus, web, microsoft

So... This isn't a web design question, but I'm clueless when it comes to most Microsoft applications. I was hoping someone here might have some ideas for me.

I go to a local youth center once a week to work on their computers. It's a bit of a grassroots, low-budget project, and they've pieced together a set of machines running on XP. They're not networked, but they have internet connections. They don't have any security software built in, so a few of the computers are so choked up with junk that they're barely usable. When I tried to clean them up, I realized I'd probably have to download any security programs on my own computer and install them on CD since the browsers won't work anymore.

My question is:

What would you do in this situation? Money is an issue since it's a youth center. I can't use the browsers. Would you uninstall the browsers? Or will some antivirus software clean everything automatically? Any other issues that might come up in the process? What application would you choose?

Thanks much!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1248888.html

Date: 04/23/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: css, html, technology, web

Getting output from open source which is fully compliant with web standards like XHTML and CSS is a major challenge. Since the work of assuring such outputs is still hand-made, many projects are weak in this critical area. But shouldn't it be possible to identify the underlying code weaknesses using technology?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/111374992/

Date: 04/24/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web

so what if someone were to knowingly set up an open wireless access point and have the traffic through that unit logged to a system to create nice neat logs with hostname, ip address and websites visited, as well as instant messages logged?

Is the person connected to the access point or the person amassing these logs more at fault?


just a hypothetical of course

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1064166.html

Date: 04/24/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Service offered as industry-backed alternative to unlicensed Web sites that don't compensate composers for their work.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6178624.html

Date: 04/24/07 (Security)    Keywords: web

By next year, Trend Micro predicts more malicious attacks will hit Internet users via the Web than via e-mail.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6178930.html

Date: 04/25/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Web site lets you see how your paycheck fares compared with others with similar skills and experience.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6178954.html

Date: 04/25/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: asp, web, microsoft

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39165

"Users who had taken part in the Vista beta scheme - millions of people, in fact - were all given free copies of Vista Ultimate by the Vole as a 'thank you'.
"

Errrr... I wasn't aware of this. I wasn't given a free copy. What does this "beta scheme" mean, exactly? People who have obtained beta via their MSDN subscriptions, or just any John, Jane, and Joe who signed up via Microsoft's website?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1064705.html

Date: 04/26/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Created by young men who fled persecution in Afghanistan, the Web site publisher has made user rights a key business principle.
Photos: The Freewebs family

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6179465.html

Date: 04/26/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, web, google

so this movable type comments thing i am trying to tweak, i made some progress. hopefully someone can help me overcome this (hopefully last) hurdle.

the way Comments.pm works in Movable Type is that when it gets a value that is equal to 1, it will redirect the user to the permalink for that specific entry. when the value does not equal 1, it will redirect them to the static URL of the website + the value sent to it.

aka: if i set the value as /hello.php, the redirect will go to website.com/hello.php

now, the comment form that will include the value is going to be an .inc file that displays on every page, and when the comment is entered, i want them to return to that page where they made it. this means i want the value to be equal to the relative URL where they came from. is there a way to do this with php?

thanks in advance and +1000 internets if anyone can figure this out for me. i'm google searching away as it is right now.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1250501.html

Date: 04/27/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, html, web

I'm having a color problem on my new html web page design.

I'm using Dreamweaver. I chose my text, link and visited link colors. I loaded the page, and the link color displays wrong. Instead of the light purple color I picked from the "System Color Picker," I get some default-looking blue. But only on the borders of pictures that were links, not on text. And not in all browsers. So I remake the page from scratch, thinking maybe it's a glitch, and choose some new colors that look similar. When I load the page, none of the colors come in right. They all look like defaults - text is black, links are blue, v-links are purple.

Can someone tell me what's going on here?

Thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1250586.html

Date: 04/27/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Web site will eventually include the names of 3 million slaves listed in British colony registers from South Africa to Sri Lanka.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6179804.html

Date: 04/27/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, spam, google, ebay

Greetings all!

It's been awhile since I was asked / contracted to work on a website, and as I'm brushing up on my skills I'm wondering if any new techniques had come about for improving website rankings.

I'm well aware of paying for a service to submit them, or the various spamming of your site or hiding hidden keywords on your pages to trick the engines. I know, for example, google has their own proprietary spidering system that is kept under wraps, so no one really knows how to optimize for it.

In the past, I simply had the basic meta keywords and meta description in the header of each page, then manually submitted the main site page to the search engines.

However, I'm finding some newer (larger) sites don't have any meta tags in their header at all!

For example, ebay.com has meta keyword tags, wikipedia.com does not.

I was curious what techniques you used to optimize and boost rankings.

Thanks all!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1251056.html

Date: 04/27/07 (HTML Help)    Keywords: html, web, google

I checked my site at Weblint Gateway and I can't seem to get rid of the errors without making my page look bad.
The problem is, I like the way my page looks now, but it won't load quickly until I fix the bugs.
I don't know how to change the code so that I can keep the current look while omitting the errors.
Can someone help me?
The page address is
http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/Pudgy/Pudgy10.html
You can find the Weblint gateway on google by typing in "Weblint gateway."

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2395343.html

Date: 04/28/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, html, web

Good morning everyone!

I still learning web, and am having a little trouble with my link colours.

I'm working with a limited palette on my friend's website (initial pages can be seen at http://www.rgbcmyk.ca/pages/pf_imgrtch.html) and am having a little trouble getting the colour designated in my site-wide CSS stylesheet to stick. Each page also has it's own style sheet, for positioning page specific items. (yes, I'm going all out with the CSS - needed to handle some tight image and type placements on some pages that you don't see yet)

It _should_ be 444444, 666666, 888888 and 000000, but it's reverting back to the default link colours (blue and purple)

Any clues as to where I should be looking under the hood? Do I need to change anything in my CSS hierachy?

Any help appreciated

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1251237.html

Date: 04/29/07 (PHP Development)    Keywords: xml, web

I am connecting to Amazon's S3 web service. I've created 2 buckets, and am now writing a function to get back the list of buckets from S3, and am having problems parsing the XML with simple XML.

I've got down to the bucket Node in a foreach loop as $bucketObj in the XML this Node had "Name" and "CreationDate" as XML nodes.

$bucketObj->Name;
$bucketObj->CreationDate;

The problem is when I call them instead of getting a "string" variable, I have a "SimpleXMLElement" If I var dump Name it looks like

    object(SimpleXMLElement)#17 (1) {
      [0]=>
      string(13) "JamesTest1234"
    }

    
        amazon key data
        amazon
    
    
        
            JamesTest1234
            2007-04-29T01:08:47.000Z
        
        
            JamesTest12345
            2007-04-29T01:10:47.000Z
        
    

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php_dev/76895.html