Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

More problems related to tagging things

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Tagging. Everyone's doing it. It's great for categorizing things like blogposts or photos into related groups. Here's even more tagging issues! :whistle: Tagging in general, tag clouds and social problems. Whoa.

Mozilla Prism: A fancy name for a technology as old as the browser

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Mozilla recently introduced Prism, which takes Widgetize to a whole new level. Opera's Widgetize will turn your blog or RSS feed into a widget with some custom skins and stuff. What Prism does is, it takes any website and turns that into a ...

Simple and efficient spam prevention techniques

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera I've previously outlined some alternative methods for CAPTCHA/spambot prevention in Different kinds of CAPTCHA. Josh Clark recently posted Seven Habits of Highly Effective Spambot Hunters which gives even more good methods for preventing spam. But with spambots gaining more and more features, what can ...

Lively Kernel - Another waste of time?

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Sun Labs recently introduced Lively Kernel, which is an attempt to treat web applications in a similar way as desktop applications are programming-wise. The Lively Kernel places a special emphasis on treating web applications as real applications, as opposed to the document-oriented nature ...

Blocking ads on websites is bad behavior

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera A lot of people really dislike any ads on a website. This shows in browsers too: Opera added a content blocker and Firefox has AdBlock and probably at least two other plugins for getting rid of ads. Some people even use separate ...

Top 9 most useful web developer tools for Opera

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Firefox has some tools for web developers, such as the excellent Firebug. But what does Opera have? Here is a list of top 9 developer tools for Opera - I bet you can't find these from Firefox.

HTTP File Uploads

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Here's a chance for Opera to shine again: Make a better interface for file uploading.

Preventing cross-site scripting attacks

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Originally posted in my old blog at My Opera Cross-site scripting attacks, also known as XSS attacks, are a type of vulnerability found in some web sites. For example, if your blog comment box allows users to write JavaScript snippets that aren't escaped in any way by the server and are ran, ...