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See also:
- AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - related links and information
- SSL Certificates
- Browser Issues
- Web Servers
Web Reference Materials
- 2009-Nov-26: A cautionary note on why not to use GET in form processing. [8800]
- 2009-Jul-21: Using the ETag feature of HTTP with Django to let the web client know that its copy of a page is still current. [8310]
- 2009-Jul-17: A side by side comparison of Flash and Silverlight. In July'09 Silverlight 3 introduced H.264 streaming with GPU support, which probably puts it ahead of Flash in video delivery. [7968]
- 2009-Jul-03: The Paged Media module is intended to allow CSS to put page breaks into HTML. [8218]
- 2009-Jul-01: 15 must Read Articles for CSS Beginners. [8210]
- 2009-Jun-12: The CSS Box Model talks about the various dimensions surrounding HTML elements as seen by CSS. [8138]
- 2009-Apr-24: Free CSS has lots of CSS templates and information. [7905]
- 2009-Feb-20: How to set up a web page for better printing by using a custom printer style CSS. [7612]
- 2009-Jan-28: The Browser Security Handbook documents the security properties of the various common web browsers. [7494]
- 2009-Jan-21: 12 Useful Techniques for good User Interface Design in web applications. [7471]
- 2008-Oct-23: A chapter from Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong. [7076]
- 2008-Oct-17: Server Name Indication allows the browser and web server to cooperate to allow virtual hosts to have their own unique SSL certificates, thereby getting around the TLS (SSL) limitation that restricts each server to only hosting a single SSL-secured web site. [7041]
- 2008-Sep-19: A Basic Guide to DNS from the Google Apps Admin help. [6890]
- 2008-Jun-05: Deep Packet Inspection and Injection is going to become a contentious issue on the web, one that legislators are probably going to have to face soon. I suspect that at least in those countries that have the common carrier liability exemptions this problem may not develop very far, because for a carrier to start inspecting the contents of packets passing through its networks in order to slip in advertisements that earn it some money, it would be demonstrating that it is capable of reviewing the contents of the data and thus could be liable for the transmission of illegal or copyright controlled data. This common carrier exemption greatly simplifies (and reduces the operating costs) of these companies so it is a status they will seek to maintain at practically any cost. [6285]
- 2008-Apr-17: CommandShift3 is a user-driven comparison of web site aesthetics, they also have collections of best and worst rated designs. Quite interesting to look through and be sure to do some comparisons to see how your design tastes compare to the rest of the (geek) web. I'm certain vermeulen.ca would loose big time. [5835]
- 2008-Apr-15: DNS Check is an online tool to check DNS configuration for a web site. [5817]
- 2008-Apr-14: A table of RGB Color Values for use on the web. [5803]
- 2008-Apr-14: A good table of HTML Codes useful if you are in need of a character code for some odd symbol or accented letter. [5793]
- 2007-Dec-14: Amazon's SimpleDB is simliar to other things like CouchDB and DBSlayer, is this a new fad or a turning point in database design? [4430]
- 2007-Nov-15: pygossip is an implementation of a distributed domain reputation service, the idea is to track the spam to ham ratio of emails from various domains to determine a reputation index. [4158]
- 2007-Nov-07: A brief explanation of the DNS system, including subdomains. [4047]
- 2007-Nov-02: An example of why tag clouds look better when sorted by popularity. [3920]
- 2007-Oct-26: Why Prism might be better than Silverlight or Air. Prism may end up being a way to make desktop applications using web technologies. [3516]
- 2007-Oct-26: An article on favicon.ico files. The favicon.cc web app can be used to design favicons, it gets discussed here. [3417]
- A Slashdot book review of, CSS: The Missing Manual, by David Sawyer McFarland, ISBN: 0596526873. [3425]
- A Slashdot book review of, Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, by Elisabeth and Eric Freeman, ISBN: 0-596-10197-X [3424]
- The BareBones Guide to HTML is quick and simple [3423]
- Facebook has released their network protocol library (called Thrift) which supports multiple languages (C++, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby). Discussed here on Slashdot. [3422]
- The Latin1 (ISO8859-1) character set and the HTML 4.0 specification [3421]
- Information on web robots and the robots.txt file. The Wikipedia entry for robots.txt. And an on-line validator to check your robots.txt files. [3420]
- Unipage, see unipage.org, a system to encode all content for a web page into a single HTML file, useful for saving the file for simplified distribution [3419]
- RFC 2046 discusses the various MIME types (for the Content-Type attribute on HTTP responses), this IANA site lists more content types [3418]
- The HTTP1.0 draft discusses basic authentication, and RFC2617 discusses digest authentication, another article with some copies of the actual headers involved. RFC 1738 discusses the syntax of Uniform Resource Locators (i.e. URLs). This article discusses using JavaScript to clear the browser's cache to achieve a logout. Another follow up to the issue of logout. This article has a very good discussion of the issues involved in implementing authentication. Apparently this add-on for Firefox adds the ability to logout (which is present in SeaMonkey). Security versus Obscurity, a discussion on the use of salt. RFC 1867 talks about the file upload ability that was added to html forms. RFC 2616 is a more up to date HTTP specification. [3416]