JTK – Notes and Ramblings Things we have found …

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.

Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style
Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

the sydney opera house virtual tour A Virtual Tour of the Sidney Opera House – requires QuickTimeVR and Flash 5.

Download GreatFamily – 100% FREEWARE
GreatFamily is a unique, powerful and easy-to-use tool for graphical family tree editing and web page creation. It’s completely free

metapad home
metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x and Windows NT with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad’s features and much, much more