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Adrian Holovaty is looking for information on how to run a state of the art browser engine in a headless fashion. Basically he wants programmatic access to all of the DOM information that you can get at through Firebug (or any decent DOM inspector).

I don’t know what he’s using it for, but you could use [...]

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Looks like the misreporting of the mass SQL injection attack continues. The exploit is associated with MS SQL Server, not IIS or ASP. It’s confusing because most people run the full Microsoft stack, but the exploit will work against any site that does not prevent SQL injection and uses MS SQL as its database. [...]

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Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? Darned interesting article on the impact mobile phones have on society. It’s a feature on Jan Chipchase, a researcher at Nokia who publishes an incredible blog that I’ve subscribed to for awhile. Position Is Everything. Yet another site documenting browser CSS limitations. Daring Fireball: The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web [...]

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I’ve started collecting screen shots that illustrate the problem of performance issues affecting the usability of Web sites. I saw this one in a shopping cart from an online store (I don’t remember which one, and they probably wouldn’t want to be identified anyway).

As you can see, this text was added to the Web page [...]

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Stephen O’Grady: Clouds Rolling In: The Google App Engine Q&A. Great rundown. Bruce Schneier: The Feeling and Reality of Security. Understanding the differences and how to manage them is the key to successful security policy. FP Passport: The Olympic torch’s mysterious companions. The torch escorts are members of a paramilitary group sponsored by the Chinese government. Their [...]

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gourmet.com: Betting the Farm. Great article on agriculture policy and how one family farm in South Dakota is bucking the trend of cashing in on ethanol money and government subsidies. Rogers Cadenhead: Washington Post Wins Another Phony Pulitzer. I loved the Washington Post article about the violinist planted in the DC subway, but Rogers argues that [...]

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Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3. The main sense I get from this review is that I could be getting more out of my Mac. Jason Kottke: Getting into Momofuku Ko. How this small but incredibly popular New York restaurant handles reservations using a Web application. It sounds like the basic model works like Ticketmaster.

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Over the past year or so I’ve come to realize that getting the markup right is the most difficult part of building Web applications. Had you asked me back a year ago, I’d have guessed that working with JavaScript was the most difficult, but now I know better.

Server side development is in many ways the [...]

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The senselessness of war: A World War II German fighter pilot just learned that he shot down and killed his favorite author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote The Little Prince. Dave Shea on Mediatyping. Presenting the right markup for the user’s device. John McCain seems to have run into the Shiite/Sunni confusion that plagues so many [...]

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Microsoft’s Monday announcement of the new browser compatibility features in Internet Explorer 8 has set of a torrent of commentary. They described their new approach to markup versioning in an article at A List Apart and on the Internet Explorer blog.

The basic idea is that Internet Explorer 8 will enable you to specify which rendering [...]

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