JTK – Notes and Ramblings Things we have found …

Works in Progress – How to Create a Pop-Up eMail This Entry Window in MovableType
Several people have asked me how I did it, so I wrote a tutorial on how to create a pop-up ‘eMail This Entry’ window in MovableType. Here it is.
This is a bit old but is still a nice addition.

Nebulus Designs, Graphic Design and Web Development

Lisp in JavaScript
I wanted to get a feel for just how powerful JavaScript is as a programming language (as opposed to just a scripting language), so I sat down one evening and wrote this. It turns out that it was quite good for this application, since it is so flexible – dynamically sized arrays are used throughout, and associative arrays make the symbol table quite easy.

LinuxISO.org – A place to learn about, download, and discuss Linux.
Find ISO cd images of many popular Linux distributions.

optimal web design
Evidence suggests that the most commonly used fonts tend to be equally legible at the 10-, 12-, and 14-point size.

Counterpane: Crypto-Gram: May 15, 2002
Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, recently decided to look at biometric fingerprint devices. These are security systems that attempt to identify people based on their fingerprint. For years the companies selling these devices have claimed that they are very secure, and that it is almost impossible to fool them into accepting a fake finger as genuine. Matsumoto, along with his students at the Yokohama National University, showed that they can be reliably fooled with a little ingenuity and $10 worth of household supplies.

SelectORacle
Ever wondered what a particularly complex CSS selector really means? Here’s your chance to find out! Simply enter one or more semi-colon separated selectors or rulesets into the following “Direct Input” area, or provide the URL of a stylesheet in the “URL Input” area. Best of all, the SelectORacle will flag potential errors and other problems, and it won’t choke on any actual rules. You’ve always wanted to know what makes those line-noise posers tick– now you can.

JavaScript and DHTML content
Waking up, in this tutorial, we’ll examine the new features of JavaScript in 4th generation browsers that allow us to alter HTML content on the fly. Three different techniques are involved (for IE 4 , NS 4, and NS 6), so clear your desk- and your mind- as we march forward.

Openwire – Moveable Type Search The no longer beening worked on – hopefully soon to be included in MT itself search engine.

O’Reilly Network: Introduction to CSS Layout [Mar. 01, 2002]
There aren’t many web developers who have not at least tried using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define typography and simple page attributes such as background and text color. These days more and more developers are pushing CSS even further, eschewing tables and embracing CSS as a web page layout tool. In this article I’ll explain why CSS is in many ways preferable to using tables for layout, and then I’ll show you some CSS layout techniques using a complete re-coding of the Apple Internet Developer home page as an example

Felix
Everybody needs a little distraction sometimes.

Unpatched IE vulnerabilities
Why this page ?
This page was made public to put pressure on Microsoft, in the hope that they may patch the listed security holes.
Vulnerabilities listed on this page work (among others) with the latest version of Internet Explorer, with all patches installed.
Until proper patches have been provided, the only fix is to disable scripting.
This page is, and always will be, a work in progress. This is not a definitive list of vulnerabilities.