Improved Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice
Charles Miller's article, "Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice,"[1] describes a relatively secure approach to implementing the familiar "Remember Me" option for web sites. In this article, I propose...
View ArticleThe Seven C's Border Technique
Continuously Changing Curved Clear Corners Containing ContentA client presented me with an existing visual design for their new web site. They had the layered image in Photoshop from their graphic...
View ArticleExternal links in new windows without using 'target'
The default Drupal 5.0 theme (and previous default Drupal themes) uses XHTML Strict. There are reasons this is probably a bad idea but, in the spirit of eating my own dogfood, I'm going with it for...
View ArticleIE inherited margin bug: form elements and hasLayout
Internet Explorer on Windows has a wide variety of rendering bugs. Many of these bugs can be worked around by giving affected elements the IE-specific "hasLayout" property and an extensive analysis of...
View ArticleShould web pages open links to external sites in a new browser window?
Yes. 39% (24 votes) Yes, if the external link is indicated semantically and visually. 33% (20 votes) No. 25% (15 votes) I'm not sure. 3% (2 votes) Total votes: 61
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