Living with Mangee

7th Jun, 2007

19:57:00 - Checked 10083 URLs in 73 seconds. 0 URLs found in your history

Spyjax - utilising the DOM to check on the colour of a visted link (css's pseudo-class a:visited colour) to "see" if your browser has re-coloured it to show you've visited it. Spying on users... mmm.

See the article here

Spyjax doesn't seem to work with Safari.. possibly one of those cross-site scripting things.. I'll have a look at the code eventually.

Tags: a:visted, ajax, browser, cache, css, history, links, privacy, spyjax

Current Mood: intrigued

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3rd Jan, 2007

23:40:00 - A Night Surf.. Trolling List Archives...

I am not sure if I have understood the culture of VBScript right, but it may be a problem in terms of emergence of libraries without a master plan.

AHA; you have it! Without a master plan, you are headed for chaotic
incompatibles on a global scale, MUCH WORSE than what you lament today

Link to OP in context

I can't recall how it happened, but I ended up reading through the list archives for the WHAT WG this evening, and came across this one. I smiled.

Ok, that inspired me to find out how I ended up here. Scrolling back through some 342 pages of browser history - it seems it all started with a post to the TNC list. The Gadgets vs Widgets one:
http://list.thursdaynightcurry.com/mailman/private/wellington/2007-January/005526.html

In which I referenced David Pogues "Windows ISN'T copying OS X" video, To which Mr holloway.co.nz had already meantioned XUL - which piqued my interest in how Opera was coming along with SVG/XUL, and what the status of Canvas and SVG was with Apples Widgets... etc. Which brought me across a reference to "The WHAT" - which I Googled with useless results. -- but persisted and eventually got to the What working groups spec on Web Forms 2.0 - which seemed to be a little off track with what I thought the W3C where doing. I then found it had been submitted to the W3C.. and the submission was acknowledged with comments. - Intrigued I popped over to their mailing list archives and searched for W3C... and discovered a "discussion" ensued on their mailing list....

anyway - about 3 hours later, i'm still surfing. PJs, warm bed and all...