Author Archive for Danny



Practicing Good Form

In the beginning, there was “mailto:” and it was good (or at least functional to a point). Then Matt Wright graced us with the Perl script we all know as Form Mail for collecting and validating the users input.
Initially FormMail was touted to be a feature-rich, fully-functional send-mail script that would (and did) revolutionize the […]

Mozilla delivers third beta for Firefox 3 browser.

Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the company’s Web site Tuesday, touting […]

Yahoo will decide on Microsofts offer this week.

According to sources, Yahoo is deciding between just two options. Accept the offer in principal, but get Microsoft to fork over some more coin, or attempt to partner with Google and outsource advertising to the Internet giant.

W3C releases first draft of HTML 5.0

Today the HTML working group published  the first public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.
Some of the most interesting new features for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling audio and video content, maintaining persistent client-side data storage, and for enabling users to […]

Microsoft relaxes Vista Virtualization Rules

Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments.
The company announced on January 20 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change.
(Microsoft was planning on making the announcement at 12:01 a.m. on January 21, […]