Warning: your computer might be infected while surfing the web! Because these days web criminals aren’t just attacking government or corporate servers any more, but your browser as well. That way they can steal/ manipulate your data or install other malware. Most of these attacks happen while you are surfing and all the anti-virus software … Read more
As posts about how bad we want msie6 to disappear are the latest craze; This morning I implemented “IE6 update” on this blog. This little piece of javascript displays an official looking information bar that encourages them to upgrade and links to the official MS IE8 website. Maybe this is on the edge of what … Read more
Show me a ‘Mozilla Labs’ page on Facebook and I’ll click on that ‘Become a fan’-button immediately. ‘Labs‘ is where new and often exciting browser-functionality is being prototyped (think Prism, Weave, Ubiquity, About:tab, Personas), and where the everyone can get involved in the process. How great is that? Last week the omnipresent Aza Raskin introduced … Read more
I’m one of those crazy gadget-loving freaks that are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Palm Pré. One of the reasons I’m that exited about that device is the development-stack. Applications are written on the Mojo-framework: html+css+js plus a great API to interface with the OS and hardware. But the Pré isn’t available yet and … Read more
I just received a mail from Frank Goossens. I’ve apparently invited myself to view “an adorable Christmas-card” containing “warm wishes”. Moreover I tried to guilt-trick myself into forwarding that same card to friends and family, as that simple gesture would provide the poor with (unhealthy fried) food for the Poverello Christmas-dinner. In general I don’t … Read more
Firefox 3.1 is just around the corner and I’ve been using the beta’s for a couple of months now, but I didn’t really feel the urge to write about it up until now. But with things heating up between Google Chrome (already out of beta!), Safari and Firefox and with new versions of MS Internet … Read more
A quick list of the most frequently used sites on my mobile phone. gmail mobile: my “homepage”. attachments and images could be handled better, but still, a great mobile web-app. google reader mobile: too many blogs, too little time. reading up on my blogfeeds everywhere i can (and yes, that includes the loo) smartphone/pda version … Read more
Yesterday I noticed that all of a sudden no less then 6 new sites linked to this small-time blog. Great huh? Except when checking out those blogs (all on google’s blogger-platform by the way), I quickly saw they were fake, attempting to trick users into installing malware on their windows PC’s. Being the curious would-be … Read more
Yesterday Google confirmed that it would be releasing a new browser in beta today, named Chrome. Everything there is to know about this new open source browser for now, can be found in an online comic. Based on that publication, the most important features seem to be; each tab runs its own sandboxed process (limiting … Read more
With new versions of our trusted browsers coming out, web developers who like living on the edge can start using some of the new features that are becoming available. One such goody is cross-document messaging, which is part of the HTML5 draft spec. Cross-document messaging allows children of a window (think iframes, popups, …) to … Read more