The new HTML 5 video feature being used in capable browsers like Google Chrome is purely awesome. It amazes me that a feature this new works so well, although it does have some quirks, it’s still better than Adobe’s Flash player, and it’s improvement isn’t bottlenecked by Adobe or any single entity. I chuckle knowing …
Everytime we submit a form over HTTP or HTTPS with our password, we present an opportunity for a man-in-the-middle to perform some voodoo and decipher our passwords. With SSL in shambles, and HTML Form “encryption” a complete obfuscatory waste of time, most of us turn to JavaScript to perform client-side authentication. I think authentication is pretty important, but …
We just discovered JotForm – an online tool for making and editing HTML forms. Most of the abstractions we have for forms are on the back-end, so we end up writing boring form code manually. Not anymore. Now we can create nice looking forms during development!
We’ve been cooking up a new project called Diet HTTP, which are designed for use with PHP with support for Smarty. The idea here is to cut down on HTTP requests for .css and .js by serving the files in bundles instead of individually. This will improve your page load time by: Cutting down on HTTP requests, …
With all the talk of HTML 5 around the corner, I’ve been thinking of how passwords are sent over HTTP. Let’s not forget that SSL is pretty much busted now that anyone can sign a certificate. If you wanted to avoid your passwords being stolen while someone monitors your connection, a site has to have …
It’s 2009 and I think it’s pretty safe to say that anyone who can read probably hates Internet Explorer 6.0. Making sites in IE6 is a pain, and requires useless knowledge specific to this time vampire of a web browser. Most sites are failing to provide any kind of reliable experience within IE6, and Google …