Tom Lachecki

(Tomalak Geret'kal)

Designer Wiz

My friend Dagger pointed me to http://www.designerwiz.com/nojava.htm and the confusion there. They were redirecting users who had Java disabled to a page all about enabling Java, even though what they really meant was Javascript. They didn't seem to realise the difference.

Web 2.0 RFC

My definition of Web 2.0: comments please.

Give Me The Time Of Day

What should I find but the answer to any desires any man or woman could ever have had for a DHTML date/time picker?

Bit Late For Standards Now, IE

It's nice to hear that IE7 is going to address many of the well-known "sidesteps from convention" when it comes to CSS standards, but isn't the damage already done?

Spam By Co-Incidence

When I started getting spam on an ISP email account that I don't even use, I got suspicious. At first I wondered if PlusNet had leaked account names or something. But eventually I figured it out.

IE Is Background-Image Shy

As I began sprucing up my Portfolio a little, I came across a nasty IE bug that I'm sure I'd read about before. I was disappointed to be able to find precious little about it on the web but one blog which explains it quite nicely.

Fighting phpBB spam

Forum spam. We all know it's a problem. The introduction of Visual Confirmation ('CAPTCHA') mods seemed to fix this problem, at least to those of us naive enough to believe we'd be safe forever. I've been noticing for some months now that on the Newark Hall JCR forum, spammers seem to get by the Captcha […]

Evolution Of The Web Browser

So I wasn't immensely impressed with my newly installed copy of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. It's shiny and nice, and has a few nice features like tabs and feed support, and it's attempted to make security better. All good things, you'd think…

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