Wandering Thoughts archives

2006-12-27:	HTTP as it is seen in the wild
2006-12-24:	What Google Sitemaps isn't
2006-12-18:	A basic principle of website security
2006-12-17:	How to get me to block your web ads in a flash
2006-12-10:	An irony of web serving
2006-11-19:	How https: should work
2006-11-06:	HTML character sets
2006-10-18:	CSS is assembly language
2006-10-15:	On the various meanings of `<tag />`
2006-10-11:	A spectacular web spammer failure
2006-09-26:	Web site security theatre
2006-09-21:	The danger of relying on Javascript for input validation
2006-09-09:	Something I really wish vendor product pages did
2006-09-05:	Stupid web spammer tricks
2006-08-25:	Please don't use session cookies Another stupid spider mistake
2006-08-04:	My current set of Firefox extensions
2006-07-30:	XHTML on the web is for masochists
2006-07-24:	Walking away from Slashdot: a story of design
2006-07-15:	A robot wish
2006-07-11:	Why `nofollow` is useful and important
2006-06-28:	The problem with cool URLs
2006-06-15:	How to have your web spider irritate me intensely
2006-06-13:	A web validation aphorism
2006-06-01:	The cynical take on nofollow
2006-05-21:	My mistake with the `Host:` HTTP header
2006-05-15:	PlanetLab hammers on `robots.txt`
2006-05-10:	Another really stupid web spider
2006-05-08:	A really stupid web spider
2006-05-02:	CSS and syndication (another CSS limitation)
2006-04-26:	Common web spider mistakes
2006-04-21:	A CSS limitation: it's not supported by `lynx`
2006-04-10:	The fun and charm of quoting URLs properly
2006-04-03:	An ugly spam attempt Spiders should respect `rel="nofollow"`
2006-04-01:	A Firefox CSS irritation
2006-03-22:	Google Desktop and conditional GET (part 2)
2006-03-17:	The problem with LiveJournal
2006-03-11:	Web design trends that I don't understand (part 1)
2006-03-09:	Making things simple for busy webmasters
2006-03-06:	A thought about Technorati
2006-03-02:	A robots.txt surprise
2006-02-28:	A web spider update: not actually Uptilt's web spider
2006-02-18:	Stupid web spider tricks
2006-02-15:	Fun with control characters and the web
2006-02-13:	The problem with <pre>
2006-02-11:	The return of how to get your web spider banned
2006-02-08:	The `id` attribute considered dangerous
2006-02-06:	More on simple markup languages
2006-02-04:	Why simple markup languages make sense
2006-02-02:	The rise of wikiblogs
2006-01-25:	Site navigation stuff goes on the right side
2006-01-21:	Please have stable ids for your feed entries
2006-01-20:	The limits of web spider tolerance
2006-01-14:	Writing HTML considered harmful
2006-01-03:	In practice, there are multiple namespaces for URLs

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