A year ago I mentioned that cross origin Ajax requests were coming and then got backed out of the last version of Firefox Well they are back now and they do work in Firefox 3.5 IE 8 landed similiar functionality using something called an XDR (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd573303(VS.85).aspx) Of course the big question is still, is this [...]

I am pleased to announce PINT has recently launched a version of our corporate web site custom tailored to the iPhone. Having watched this project play out from it’s inception, I can attest to the differences encountered when developing specifically for iPhone Safari, as opposed to coding in support of more traditional (although often quirkier) [...]

Every day people discover that JavaScript is a programming language.  That sounds crazy, but it’s true. For example just today it seems a reporter is pointing out that JavaScript can be trouble when it fails – http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2008/08/bad_javascript.html In this situation some miscoded JavaScript caused script based stats to go crazy,  so headline time [...]

In the past few months there has been quite a stir about the latest browser releases (Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, and of course IE8) and what new features they bring.  One of the most interesting new features found in the two more popular browsers is the ability for Ajax calls to break the same origin [...]

In annals of useless of advice, this answer from the Cross Site Scripting (XSS) FAQ on PHP Advisory, to the question of what end-users can do to protect themselves, must rank pretty high:
The easiest way to protect yourself as a user is to only follow links from the main website you wish to view. If [...]

With the rise of Ajax lots of people are becoming quite excited about the JavaScript programming language. As skillful programmers who are new to JavaScript move beyond cutting-and-pasting snippets of code and actually begin learning something about the language, there are some common reactions that tend to emerge. We see these consistently in interactions with [...]

Everyone knows about the sharp trade-off that exists when using SSL: You get the security of an encrypted connection but you pay for it with a significant performance hit. Servers work much harder, and pages load much slower. SSL processing consumes about 70% of HTTPS transaction time

So if you know a bit about Ajax you might assume that there is no specification for the technology. That makes sense because Ajax is more of a term for a way of coding a JavaScript application – asynchronous communications often with XML as a payload though not always. Well it turns out [...]

Yes it is true, I have been busy writing another book for the past few months. Actually I am always writing a book it would seem, but this is not a new edition nor is it one of my long running book projects for my undergraduate courses. This is a real soon-to-be-published collection [...]