The recent release of the iPad and the decision by Apple not to include the flash plug-in on the device has triggered masses of debate in twitter, blogs and on a much smaller stage, the MadeByPi office. The debate has been about both the validity of Apple's decision and the wider subject future of flash itself as part of the web now that the HTML 5 specification is starting to cover areas where flash has been the default tool. (more...)
There is some serious competition mounting now for development platforms the next generation of RIA will be built with. Flash and ajax/javascript are well established currently with ajax/javascript leading in terms of availability and Flash in terms of creative presentation and performance. (more...)
I do - and if you do any web development then you will too.
Not this charles.
As reported on the register - grey hat hackers discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in the Daily Telegraph property website. Not only did their website allow malacious users to access information stored in their website but the site was storing users passwords in plain text. I am finding it hard to believe that there are developers out there who aren't aware of the best practice for storing passwords. Even if your site and database are secure you are taking a huge risk with someone else's private data, so many users share password across sites that if your site needs a password you have a responsibility to ensure that your user authentication does not rely on the storage of a password in plain text.
Use of SHA1 plus salt is current best practise for storing passwords and something we use in all of our development work.
It appears the encoding of a JSON file must match the encoding used in the HTML page which is downloading it. If a page uses UTF-8 encoding but the JSON file uses iso-8859-1 (or visa versa) then any unicode characters in the JSON may not be decoded and displayed properly.
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The Register is running a report today that Google and Yahoo are using an optimized version of the flash player to index text and links inside flash content, there's also more info in a press release on the adobe site.
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