Quote Test
Posted on March 13th, 2007 at 4:52 AM (GMT)
jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
Testing Lists
Posted on March 12th, 2007 at 11:52 PM (GMT)
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UNISCO Marshals Division
Posted on January 1st, 1970 at 12:00 AM (GMT)
The UMD is part UNISCO and part US Department of Justice, so there's often some jurisdictional dung being thrown around.
Developing With Web Standards - History
Posted on January 1st, 1970 at 12:00 AM (GMT)
When the Internet and the web became mainstream in the second half of the nineties, web browser vendors had not yet implemented CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, well enough for web developers to be able to use it to control the presentation of an HTML document. The lack of implementation is partly understandable, considering that the specification for CSS Level 1 was published in 1996, and the specification for CSS Level 2 was published in 1998.
The lack of CSS support in web browsers, combined with demands from graphic designers used to the level of control that is possible when working with printed material, led to the abuse of HTML in any way possible to control the visual presentation of a web page. An example is the major breakthrough that was made when designers discovered that by using the attribute border="0" to hide the borders of a table, an invisible grid that could be used to control layout was created. Another example is the use of transparent, and thus invisible, spacer GIFs to control layout.
Since HTML was never meant to be used to control the presentation of a document, hacks, invalid code, and vendor-specific elements (tags) and attributes were used. Validation was something that very few knew about or used. Tag soup is a very descriptive name for this kind of code.
As new versions of web browsers were released, CSS support was improved and extended, but not at the rate it should have been. Despite browser vendors being slow to implement CSS, we have now reached a point where web browsers with reasonable CSS support are being used by so many that there is no longer any reason not to use HTML the way it was meant to be: to describe the structure of a document, not its presentation. For that, we can now use CSS, which was designed specifically for that purpose.
SQL Injection
Posted on January 1st, 1970 at 12:00 AM (GMT)
Many web developers are unaware of how SQL queries can be tampered with, and assume that an SQL query is a trusted command. It means that SQL queries are able to circumvent access controls, thereby bypassing standard authentication and authorization checks, and sometimes SQL queries even may allow access to host operating system level commands.
Direct SQL Command Injection is a technique where an attacker creates or alters existing SQL commands to expose hidden data, or to override valuable ones, or even to execute dangerous system level commands on the database host. This is accomplished by the application taking user input and combining it with static parameters to build a SQL query. The following examples are based on true stories, unfortunately.
Owing to the lack of input validation and connecting to the database on behalf of a superuser or the one who can create users, the attacker may create a superuser in your database.
Another news item...
Posted on January 1st, 1970 at 12:00 AM (GMT)
This is some sample news text. If I were a clever man, I would write something interesting in this area. Unfortunately, I was born with a brain so small that the doctors told my mother that I had to wear a miniature scaffold to support my head, lest it should cave in on itself.
Here's some more news text. Please take good care of it. It should not be walked less than twice a day, and should not be fed more than one bowl of food a day. And don't expose it to gamma rays, or it'll grow to three times its size and smash you. Also, it seems to enjoy a platter of cheese every now and again.
The Browncoats are coming!
Posted on January 1st, 1970 at 12:00 AM (GMT)
Firefly went on the air a few years ago and was instantly hailed by critics as one of the most cancelled shows of the year. It was ignored and abandoned, and the story should end there. But it doesn't, because the people who made the show and the people who saw the show - which is roughly the same number of people - fell in love with it a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive. In my world, they're called Browncoats.
