john robert boynton: RadioRadiolicentious radio(Untitled)- December 19, 2002 Sigh. Have you patched Windows today Bad guys can own your XP computer if you download an mp3, or if IE even looks at a hacked website: "if the user browses to a malicious web site with Internet Explorer directly, the attack will work regardless of the Internet Explorer security settings." Say somebody hacks into a popular website running Microsoft's webserver, sneaks in an iframe tag to another compromised computer -- anywhere on the web. Now before the popular website's people even notice,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/radioradio/2002/12/19.html#a988 (Untitled)- December 19, 2002 Follow-up on chronologically-ordered weblogs.... Here's a example of using client-side javascript and cookies to hide previously-viewed posts new window. Why are blogs in reverse order Partly because we don't want the server to remember which items each viewer has already seen. We also don't want the server to do the work of delivering only unseen items for each user. That would get expensive, compared to Radio, that generates static pages. The script uses client-side memory and processing...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/radioradio/2002/12/18.html#a985 (Untitled)- December 18, 2002 Re-ordering weblogs is easy. Give it a separate page. Maybe restrict it to a shorter timespan. Use Javascript and DOM: 1) use Javascript to write a cookie with the id of the last-viewed entry. 2) use Javascript to set "display: none" for the items that have already been read. This will work in fancy new browsers like IE5+, Mozilla, and NS6+. For old and primitive browsers, be sure to include a link to the (current) standard reverse-order page. 3) add a link to display the hidden items. Not.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102813/categories/radioradio/2002/12/18.html#a983 |