Interesting Web Tech Related Articles

Some random collection of interesting articles related to web tech.

Browsers and CSS

• http://www.quirksmode.org/resources.html (by Peter-Paul Koch. A Large site on JavaScript and CSS across browsers.)

HTML

• Google's Web Authoring Stat, ~2006-01: http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html

Web Tech Surveys, Stats, Articles:

• “Interesting Facts About Domain Names”, by Dennis Forbes, 2006-03. http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names.html
• http://www.webdevout.net/ (by David Hammond. A large site on CSS conformance across browsers, and other articles. Heavily biased against Microsoft.)

JavaScript

Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Examples

• Simple JavaScript game (moving the red square to avoid collision): http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html

• Google map↗: http://maps.google.com/

Database

• “The Move to Store Images In the Database”, By Marcel Kratochvil, Piction. (accessed 2005) http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/intermedia/htdocs/why_images_in_database.html

Misc

• Login Image Human-Verification (CAPTCHA): Captcha↗
• BBCode↗. Bulletin Board Code, the lightweight markup language used in online forums.

IDNA

Internationalized domain name↗. Allowing domain names in unicode. IDN turns out rather stupid. This scheme does not modify DNS's Domain name↗ to broaden it beyond alphanumerics, but relies on application that translate the host name to real ascii based one, a scheme called Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). The consequence of IDNA is complex implementation in browser (in part using Punycode↗), does not work if a host name in Chinese is long, increases Homograph spoofing attack↗, creates unpredicability in browser's url field (because each browser opt different methods and display of url to prevent the proofing attack).

What it solves is to allow domain name in non-latin langs such as Chinese, Arabics, Russian to be used in host name. The latin alphabet in computing is rather popular and international and have been used throughout the history of the internet and widely used in every non-English speaking countries. Latin alphabet is simple too, and English is popular and considered a international language. The need for local lang in domain name is not that great, and the cost of introducing INDA's complexity outweight the benefits.

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