Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: java

sorttable: Make your tables sortable using DOM and Javascript.

Via Digital Media Minute

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Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: java

Unobtrusive Javascript: How we can use Javascript, but still maintain accessibility.

Via wg

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Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: security, spam

Using mod_security to kill comment spam.

• ModSecurity.
• mod_security rule generator.

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/blogging/mod_security_and_comment_spam

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: php, security, web

The PHP Security Consortium is officially launched. The group's flagship project is a PHP Security Guide

Via Web Security Blog

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Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: web

Web Application Form Design: advantages and disadvantages of vertical and horizontal alignment of form elements and labels
and, how to separate primary and secondary submit buttons visually.

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/usability/web_application_form_design

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: browser, google

Google hires Firefox developer.

Let's start the "Google browser" rumour again! ;-)

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/browsers/google_hires_firefox_developer

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: no keywords

Movable Type Version 3.15 released.

For those who don't want to do a full upgrade or those who still use the version 2.661, the fix is available as a plugin.

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/blogging/movable_type_vulnerability_fix

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: google

"evangelism guidelines".

And someone is not happy about it.

I can understand people getting annoyed when they get totally wrong results from Google. But it is not my intention to be #1 for that phrase. It is all Mozilla's fault. They use the word "evangelism" in their site.

So please forgive me! :-(

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/humour/i_am_1_in_google_for

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: no keywords

Ta-da List: a free limited stand-alone version of Basecamp's to-do list functionality.

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/tools/tada

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: software, web, spam, yahoo, google

Google, MSN and Yahoo! announced their support for rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks. They will ignore links with this attribute to prevent comment spam. Movable Type and other blog software makers and service providers also announed their support. Movable Type released a plugin to modify all links in comments and trackbacks to include the rel="nofollow" attribute.

Links:

• Google: Preventing comment spam
• Yahoo! Search: A Defense Against Comment Spam
• msn search: Working Together Against Blog Spam
• six apart: Support for nofollow

figby.com says: "Dishonest webmasters will use this attribute ... on all external links, to prevent precious PageRank from leaking out of their sites." and,

we'll also see people who sell links based on their PageRank and then add the nofollow attribute later, making the purchased links worthless-but as far as I'm concerned, anything that hinders the widespread practice of selling links for ranking can't be a bad thing.

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Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: web

Skweezed WebMaster View

Via Techdirt:How Dare You Make My Content More Accessible!

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Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: software, browser, technology, web, microsoft

Hakon Wium Lie, chief technology officer of Opera Software challenges Microsoft:

Microsoft now has the chance to redeem itself with regard to Web interoperability. All it needs to do is make sure IE 7 passes the Acid2 test before shipping.

...

To the Web community I want to say: Microsoft has now been challenged. They will respond, if enough people remind them of the challenge. Please remind them. And, when IE 7 is released, make sure this is the first thing you type into it:

http://webstandards.org/acid2

Anne says that this test could expose some bugs in "better browsers" as well.

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Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: no keywords

SitePoint's new book 'Firefox Secrets', authored by Chu Yeow, will be published next month (April).

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/browsers/firefox_secrets_book

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: no keywords

That's the question...

Problems I see so far:

1. The permalink structure I use here is /category/post_name. In MT, I can add a primary category and one or more secondary categories to posts. The permalink will be /primary_category/post_name. But WordPress doesn't have "primary category". If I add multiple categories, pemalink will be /first_category/post-name, not the_category_I_want_my_post_in/post-name.
2. With this permalink structure, I cannot use subcategories. When I go to a /category/subcategory/, I get a 404. Because WordPress tries to find a post named "subcategory" in that category.

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/blogging/to_wordpress_or_not_to_wordpress

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: google

• Bloglines in klingon. See Press release.
• Google announce Google Gulp (BETA) ™ with Auto-Drink ™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.
• Encyclopжdia Britannica announced its takeover of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is now Wikipжdia.
• ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4041.txt
• Apple founder Jobs joins IKEA

See more April foolers at Forever Geek

Related: Last year's April Fool jokes

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/humour/april_fools_day_2005

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: web

Amazon Affiliate Hijacker (to rewrite all Amazon links to include your affiliate ID) and Amazon Affiliate Anti-Hijacker (to rewrite all your Amazon affiliate links in your own web pages back to including your affiliate ID). Both by Mark Pilgrim

Via phil ringnalda dot com: Mark Pilgrim goes both ways

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/tools/hijacker_and_antihijacker

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: no keywords

If you missed my April Fool's Day logo, here it is: april1_2005_logo.gif.

Related: April Fool's Day 2005

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Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: css, spam

Matt Mullenweg's response to the WordPress - search engine spam scandal:

The articles hosted content thing was just a short-term experiment, an interesting idea (original and relevant Wikipedia-type content on the site) that was badly implemented. As an experiment it could have been conducted much better than it was. The content should have been more topical to WP issue, I should have kept up with the content that was going up, the links should have never had the overflow CSS, and I should have discussed it with more people. Each was a mistake and they combined badly - I'm very sorry.

I take full responsibilty for how it was implemented. It was wrong, and it wasn't thought through

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Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: html, web

If you use Flash, and want to share your work, you can now easily add a view source menu item to allow downloading the source code.

Usage :

Place the viewFlashSource.as file in the same directory as your Flash source file (FLA), and add the following line to the main timeline of your source file:

#include viewFlashSource.as

You can then specify the source URL through the flashParams HTML tag / attribute.

There are two values you can specify:

flashSource : Points to a URL to download the source for the contnet.
contentLicense : Points to the distribution / re-use license for the content.

Adding a View Source Menu item to Macromedia Flash Content

(Via Creative Commons Weblog)

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/design/view_source_of_flash

Date: 01/01/70     Keywords: no keywords

Install SpellBound, Spell Checker Libraries(for windows. For other OS s see install page) and a dictionary; you got a spell checker for Firefox (or Mozilla Suite).

SpellBound

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Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/tools/spellchecker_for_firefox