All web browsers are currently having a CSS history privacy leak which enables attackers to brute force a list of sites that the user visited on the Internet. The CSS leak makes use of a function in CSS that colors visited and not visited links differently. All the attacker needs to do is to display [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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What The Internet Knows About You
Most Internet users know that a website they visit can access various information about the computer system used to make the connection. This includes the screen resolution, operating system, IP address and web browser among other things. But those are not the only information that can be gathered when users visit a website. What would [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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How to style your page using CSS
Beginner article coming up, it’s time to get to know the wonderful world of CSS! Cascading Style Sheets, or css, is the standard method of styling a webpage. In fact, you should have no styling in HTML whatsoever. HTML was not designed to be a presentation language, it’s more of a structural-semantic language. In other [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Identifying each page using body tags and CSS
If you are building a large website, chances are you have a great little CSS stylesheet linked to every document which governs all the pages. But what do you do if you want just one of the pages to be completely different? You could of course go into your code and ad separate id-s and [...]
PHP – what it does and what it doesn’t
PHP is a Server side scripting language. Its primary competitors are ASP (Microsoft), JSP (Sun), CFM (Adobe), and Perl (often called cgi by hosting companies, although it is not the only cgi language). PHP was originally created in 1995, so as a technology it is fairly mature. Version 5.x is the latest stable version and [...]
Web Development: PHP – what role does it fill
Before we try to work with PHP we need understand the role it fills – what problem does it address. The World Wide Web is built on a client-server model. A client computer requests a page which is supplied by a Web Server. The browser then renders the page for the user to view. The [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Using javascript to hide and unhide elements dynamically
My favorite aspect of javascript is that it enables you to add great features to your site like showing/hiding parts of it when a user clicks a link without reloading, get some data from a database and displaying it in a new div, again without reloading. In fact, it would be possible (although not very [...]
Remove adverts on Wikipedia
Wikipedia are currently having their annual fundraising drive and consequently a large ‘encouragement’ to donate appears on every single encyclopedia article, which is an annoyance. Whilst it is possible to ‘collapse’ the advertisement to a much smaller one, having to do so is about as big an annoyance as the original advertisement. A popular Wikimedia-themed [...]
Create WordPress Themes
WordPress is fantastic for the extend to which is can be customised, however if mucking around with CSS isn’t something you really want to get into personally then here are a few tools to help you out: Artisteer Artisteer is a new application fresh out of beta which helps you design either normal websites or [...]