It’s 1 year ago I turned this from a static never updated page into a rather rapidly updated blog style website!
Happy birthday to robert.accettura.com
Some changes coming soon I might add. I’ll be doing a little better with content soon. And some new stuff will come.
I wrote a brand new news headline for MacVillage.net. It’s also RSS based, like the current incarnation, but much more efficient. It will also support more feeds. Thanks to using PHP’s XML capabilities, it processes a feed in half the time of the last version. And because it now cashe’s, and uses a better timing mechanism, it doesn’t reload news sources more than necessary. That means less CPU consumption!
So expect to see more content on the slowly rebuilding MacVillage.net soon. Perhaps by the end of the week I’ll plug the new system into production.
I’m not done yet, I still need to make some tweaks to the layout, and lots of backend work for the page:
Is HTML 4.01 Transitional Valid. That’s right. HTML 4. Decided XHTML is to much of a jump for now. Perhaps when I redo the templates in a few months I’ll convert, but for now, it’s HTML 4.
Yea for standards. No more crummy HTML. We do valid code now.
Breaks a little still under NN4. I’ll try to fix that later.
Between being sick the other day, and studying for some serious tests next week, I’m reading and seeing things (and not other things). Disregard. For historical purposes only until further notice.
First let me say on a personal level, I’m very much in favor of bug 86193. But I’m not sure everyone will be as thrilled as I am.
The web browser serves as the vehicle to the corporate intranet. A vast resource of company resources. The problem many companies have had with making their companies assets available on the intranet is stealing. It’s harder for an employee to go into a document storage facility, and steal some folders. It’s very easy for someone to browse into the companies document retention system and lift some very important data.
But enough background, what does this have to do with Mozilla?
I’ve got a small suspicion, this could cause Mozilla to loose a chance at being the browser of choice in the workplace, with this patch. The problem is many companies are deploying Asset Management Software. They want employees to browse the resources, and easily work with them as necessary, and per company protocols. What they don’t want, is a user just saving to their HD. As a result, with software like this, right click is often disabled (see bug), and various other methods are used to obscure the image (funny CGI’s that save with file name and improper extension, etc.).
Granted there is no 100% security on the web, and a user could also take a screenshot, or http dump, or one of the many methods available (get Page Info and go to the media tab). Most of these methods are out of reach (or at least knowledge) of the casual user. Meaning, the assets are at least safe from the general user who wants to take advantage.
Again, this is nothing more than a reflection, with some knowledge of such systems. It’s not meant to spark a huge debate, or a flame. Just a thought out loud. Because that’s what the internet is all about.
I’m starting to get hardcore into MacVillage.net Development, starting what will be the final development push.
Today I implemented MD5 encryption across all logins the system performs. It’s deployed and in production at the time. Also did a few other weeks to the authentication system while I’m in there.
I’m strongly considering going with XHTML for a design scheme for the following reasons:
Anyone want to comment on that decision (still pending), drop me a line, or leave me a comment here.
Also on the agenda this week is some cleanup. I’ve got scripts that have been working since 2000 without me touching them. Some I even forgot they existed 🙂 Great that they work so well, but I keep stumbling upon them. Needless to say, each one poses a delay, as I have to figure them out again, decide if they stay or go, and deal with them appropriately. Hopefully not to many left.
Turning this website to be XHTML compliant.
Preview here
It’s not done, but take a look, and let me know what you think. So far it’s a direct port. Though expect some new stylesheets when done.
In my ongoing efforts:
Few more templating tweaks. Before the bulk can be done, a few technical issues need to be worked out. Hope to have those resolved in the next 24-48 hours.
After that, I’ve got several smaller scripts to write/debug/test.
Some Authentication system upgrades. Then some new toys 😀
And, I’ll have a little Open source toy for everyone in perhaps a week or so 🙂 If you run a website, and have digital media, you may be interested… more later.
Today I hit a milestone for MacVillage.net. During the transition to the new systems, I will be keeping the old layout. But since it’s going into a new Content Management System, it will need to be updated a bit. As a result, I made it valid HTML 4.01 Transitional.
So far most of the test pages in the staging area, are completely HTML 4 Transitional VALID. I hear so often it’s “impossible” to make larger sites with content management systems valid… well I’m well under way.
Valid HTML is better for everyone, and I’m glad that the site will be valid.
At the current time, I’ve decided to officially freeze the current site. Only automated systems, and other key news systems will be updating as usual. But I’m done developing under the old system. I’m downloading an image of the current system, which I will use for porting the initial relaunch with.
It’s still a little while away, but this is a major shift from R&D to “staging”. After extensive work in this level, we will move to production.
All systems GO!
Lots of changes to mention, all small but cool:
A couple of new toys coming soon as well. Including a dump of some more quotes to the quotes database that powers those random quotes on the top of every page.
And AFAIK, all pages validate with the W3C validator right now. Notice something different, send me an email.
I’m working on a new Content Management system for MacVillage.net. To enhance it’s capabilities, I am turning to Midas.
A perfect time to give a little edge to Mozilla users 🙂
I’ve been looking into this some info a bit. Sadly, there isn’t a ton of good documentation on it for a webmaster right now.
I have a basic HTML form right now. Can anyone provide some insight on how one could take a regular form (such as this forum here), and implement midas, so that the value sent to the server is the rich goodness of midas?
I’m pretty pretty much looking for a drop replacement for a text field in a HTML form. Note there should be a fallback to an equivalent, or plain text field for any browser that doesn’t support Midas.
Comments or Email is of course open.
I think this will be a nice reason for people to use Mozilla.