mnot’s Weblog

Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Friday, October 27 2006

Friday Fun: I Hate Cookies

There are plenty of reasons to hate HTTP Cookies, but there’s one thing that especially annoys me; their syntax. Specifically, the Netscape spec allowed an “expires” field that contains...

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Thursday, October 19 2006

Thoughts on Declarative Ajax

Dave Johnson writes up a nice summary of the issues of adding new elements to HTML for declarative Ajax, something that I ran into when doing HInclude. Basically, IE...

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Tuesday, October 17 2006

Wanted: HTTP Yahoo!s

My team at Yahoo! is looking for a mid-level developer (5-10 years experience) to help build our HTTP/REST toolkit, among other things. The job is mostly coding Perl and...

Monday, October 16 2006

The Flipperdex

I’ve been playing with sales data for houses in the Bay area for a while, and have always wanted to come up with an index of same-home sales —...

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Friday, October 13 2006

Does the Enterprise (Vendor) Get the Web?

A couple of interesting things have happened recently; first, Jonathan Marsh has a new job; WSO2 is a year-old startup which provides support services around Apache’s Axis 2 Web...

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Wednesday, October 4 2006

URI Templating, the Spec

As mentioned a while back, there are a variety of places where it would be useful to be able to describe the structure of a URI, rather than just...

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Sunday, October 1 2006

More JavaScript Updates

Hot on the heels of the last batch, Stefan pointed me to Jesse Skinner’s addDOMLoadEvent, which seems to avoid the problems I found earlier (you know you’re in for...