phil ringnalda

For want of the proper function to escape the title and text, anything but English was being lost. No more.

The best way to have your aggregator send items to your blogging software is pretty simple: have them be the same program.

Surely something ought to be done about RSS/Atom autodiscovery links inside framesets, but I don’t know quite what. And no, killing everyone who uses frames is not an option (not until after the revolution, anyway).

Phishing with IDN homographs isn’t a Mozilla/Opera/Safari problem, it’s an IDN problem: give IE a plugin to make it not ASCII-centric, and it’s spoofed too.

It’s been a great run with Bloglines, but feed reading is far too important to me to trust it to something where I can’t touch the source.

Do a few hundred interlinked sites that to me appear purely designed to drive affiliate traffic to a hotel reservation site really count as a “hobbyist guide” in other people’s picture of the internet?

I’m ready for whatever’s next, as long as it can say what TrackBack should, “if you liked that, read this” rather than what TrackBack now mostly says, “I linked to that.”

“Sure, exploiting a bug in the Firefox popup blocker is great, but wouldn’t we be even more annoying if we rebrand the autoscroll icon it foolishly puts in our DOM?”

Whether nofollow means a site can hoard all its PageRank, or means that using it is like pouring out PageRank on the floor, you’re screwed. The question is just which way.

Netscape 8, featuring built-in insecurity for sites that AOL/TW trusts on your behalf.