Archive for August, 2004

Security Hole?

Friday, August 6th, 2004

Is your RSS reader secure?

if ( typeof document != “undefined” && !(/erik.eae.net/.test( document.domain) ))
{
var s = “Your RSS reader has a potential security hole!”;
if ( typeof alert == “function” )
alert( s );
else if ( document.getElementById && document.createTextNode )
[...]

MSN Web Messenger

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

Microsoft are currently beta testing their DHTML version of MSN Messenger. Not that DHTML chats are something very new. Some nice features of this one are:

Looks good (if you like the look of MSN Messenger for Windows you’ll like this one).
Currently typing notification
Good usability
Works in Mozilla, Internet Explorer and Opera 7. Opera is not supported [...]

XPSP2 and XHTML

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

I installed XP SP2 RC2 last weekend (mostly to get DHTML Menu 4 working) and overall it is a big disappointment… but today I realized that it does not ask me to save XHTML (application/xhtml+xml) files anymore but it actually shows it. Does this mean that IE in SP2 will support XHTML? Unfortunately IE still [...]

Icons are Hard

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

Today I tried creating a new icon for an RSS reader. I had a pretty good idea and after a few hours of work I got something that I think look pretty good. However, it turns out that I didn’t manage to make the icon look good at 32×32 and my design would not work [...]