If you have a creative block use this to pick a font. Don’t use it if you’re creating a competitor to the app you chose from though.
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006What do you want in HTML?
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Have your say about the future of HTML.
What I’d want:
– Better form controls. But only if they follow other computer conventions.
– Application markup. We already have most things for marking documents.
It’s hard thinking about this since what I want should really be written on small papers, put on a desk and then sorted into structure (HTML), presentation (CSS) and behaviour (JavaScript). But I don’t really have time for this. Do you?
Update: Another reason for the lack of ideas might be that I just learned to work with the limitations. They’re so built into my brain that I’d have to go check some of the pages I made to see where I might have been exploiting the current standard..
Retrieving forgot passwords
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006You know how you allow your browser to save passwords and then forget the master password and can’t see the passwords anymore? Or you own IE6 where you can’t even see what the darn thing saved?
When I was in a situation like this I wrote a simple favelet/bookmarklet that lets you steal your own passwords that are autofilled by the browser.
When run, the favelet will go through all the input fields that have type set to password (the ones you can’t see, cause the browser will mask the content to * or dots) and alert their name and value.
This kind of script, combined with XHR can be a powerful attack tool since you can use it to steal passwords of other people if you can slip it in the page they’re looking at. More about it on ajaxian. Don’t use this script for anything like that!