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Copyright 1998-2010 Tweakers.net Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:15:53 GMT Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:15:53 GMT http://tweakers.net/reviews/76 Tweakblogs.net is the weblog service provided by Tweakers.net, the largest hardwaresite and techcommunity in the Netherlands. http://tweakblogs.net/ Tweakblogs.net http://tweakimg.net/g/if/logo.gif 60 60 Tweakblogs.net en http://crisp.tweakblogs.net Crisp's blog frontpage@tweakers.net Are you watching the banners? At least the banners are watching you! http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4860/are-you-watching-the-banners-at-least-the-banners-are-watching-you!.html When was the last time you looked at a banner? Provided you don't already use a banner blocker, and I don't mean just noticed that there was a banner (some flashing moving thing on top of the page or on the side, or maybe even covering the content you were just about to start reading and making you race for the close button), but really looked at it? Maybe even clicked it? And if you did, do you look at banners all the time? Well, don't worry if you don't; at least banners know when you are not looking, and they're telling it to the advertisers. Read more » crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4860/are-you-watching-the-banners-at-least-the-banners-are-watching-you!.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4860 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:05:00 GMT The internet anno 2010: all about the money? http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4424/the-internet-anno-2010-all-about-the-money.html Sometimes when I look back at my internet career I get a feeling of dismay, and it's not only about my career itself but also about the internet as a whole. What started out as an exciting new technology with endless possibilities now only seems to revolve around advertisements and SEO in order to attract as many visitors as possible in order to maximize the income on said former advertisements. Read more » crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4424/the-internet-anno-2010-all-about-the-money.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4424 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:44:00 GMT DHTML Lemmings primer http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881/dhtml-lemmings-primer.html It's been 7 years since I wrote DHTML Lemmings™. In internet-terms that's a lifetime; back in those days Firefox didn't exist yet (Mozilla Phoenix was on version 0.8 or something and IE6 was the dominant browser), we didn't have HTML5 or javascript libraries and web standards was just a grassroots movement. It was hard to make dynamic cross-browser things back then, yet I managed to create something that still works in browsers today. Read more » crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881/dhtml-lemmings-primer.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881 Sat, 29 May 2010 23:39:00 GMT Heads or Tails? http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4198/heads-or-tails.html Clientside Performance Guru Steve Souders recently created a test to see if browsers implicitly create a <head>-element for all HTML documents. I pointed out in the comments that there might be more in play than just the fact that some browsers don't follow the specifications (notably mobile browsers) to the letter with regards to DOM-tree building. Read more » crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4198/heads-or-tails.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4198 Sun, 16 May 2010 23:49:00 GMT The real reason Apple and Microsoft are embracing 'HTML5' http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090/the-real-reason-apple-and-microsoft-are-embracing-html5.html Just the other day Microsoft has chimed in with Apple in its fight against Adobe's Flash calling it 'proprietary' and 'not-open' and pushing forward 'HTML5' as the technology of the future. Both posts seem to focus on video on the web and it is striking that they both mention H.264 as the codec of choice, a codec that is neither free nor open and has little to do with HTML5 itself. Read more » crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090/the-real-reason-apple-and-microsoft-are-embracing-html5.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090 Sun, 02 May 2010 23:43:00 GMT Tweakblogs: ideeën voor features http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4065/tweakblogs-ideeen-voor-features.html Mijn medeblogger Coltrui vroeg U al eerder om input en nu is het mijn beurt om, na de eerdere verbeteringen aan ons fabeltastische blogplatform, eens wat andere ideetjes in Uw aangezicht te spiegelen Lees verder » crisp 9 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4065/tweakblogs-ideeen-voor-features.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4065 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:25:00 GMT Tweakblogs: stats, quotes & performance http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4005/tweakblogs-stats-quotes-en-performance.html Gisteren en vandaag zijn er wat wijzigingen doorgevoerd aan de Tweakblogs. De titel verklapt het eigenlijk al een beetje en wellicht was het de blogeigenaren ook al opgevallen, maar hierbij toch een korte blogpost om een en ander toe te lichten Lees verder » crisp 9 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4005/tweakblogs-stats-quotes-en-performance.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4005 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:36:00 GMT CSRF protection with 'self-validating' tokens http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3928/csrf-protection-with-self-validating-tokens.html Cross-site Request Forgery is a very common social exploit method to make people unknowingly do things on their own behalf on a targeted website. It's the number four on the 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors list. The main reason this problem exists in most websites is the fact that they don't check the origin of an incoming request that results in an action on that website. There are several ways a website can protect itself against these sort of attacks and I'm going to explain the way we, at Tweakers.net, have implemented our own protection method. Read more » crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3928/csrf-protection-with-self-validating-tokens.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3928 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:10:00 GMT Aftellen naar 1984 - deel 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3795/aftellen-naar-1984-deel-1.html We zitten in een tijdmachine en zijn onderweg naar 1984, elke quote brengt ons dichterbij. Een greep uit het nieuws van afgelopen week: Lees verder » crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3795/aftellen-naar-1984-deel-1.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3795 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:59:00 GMT The MS browser ballot page analyzed http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3751/the-ms-browser-ballot-page-analyzed.html There's been a lot of talk about the new Microsoft browser ballot screen lately. I for one would like to say that I think this solution is a very good thing. I really commend Microsoft for having come up with this solution. It seems that this solution however is not very well understood by some people who just think it is annoying and 'blame' the European Commission for 'butting in' on the free market. Read more » crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3751/the-ms-browser-ballot-page-analyzed.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3751 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:49:00 GMT 'Partij van de Volksverlakkerij' http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3742/partij-van-de-volksverlakkerij.html De vandaag in het Europees Parlement aangenomen resolutie voor meer openheid over het Acta-verdrag heeft toch een beetje een nare nasmaak gekregen. Ook al is deze resolutie tegen de achterkamertjespolitiek die momenteel bedreven wordt tussen onder meer de Europese Commissie en de Verenigde Staten aangenomen met 633 stemmen voor en slechts 13 stemmen tegen (en 16 onthoudingen), uit de lijst van tegenstemmers blijkt dat maar liefst drie Nederlanders tot de tegenstemmers behoren Lees verder » crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3742/partij-van-de-volksverlakkerij.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3742 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:12:24 GMT Politiek http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3610/politiek.html Dit keer geen technische post, maar een post over iets dat ons allemaal raakt, en zeker ook niet onderschat mag worden: politiek. We hebben zojuist onze stemmen mogen uitbrengen voor de gemeenteraden, en straks mogen we weer stemmen voor onze volksvertegenwoordigers in de tweede kamer. Dat is democratie, maar wat is onze democratie nog waard? Lees verder » crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3610/politiek.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3610 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:35:00 GMT Die IE6, die! http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3535/die-ie6-die!.html The Dutch nowadays are a conservative kind of people; they don't like to stick out their necks when it comes to radical changes. They much rather prefer to keep everything as it was. But when a greater power tells them to jump, the Dutch will gladly ask "how high?" Read more » crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3535/die-ie6-die!.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3535 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:03:00 GMT Clientside performance no priority for Dutch websites http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3301/clientside-performance-no-priority-for-dutch-websites.html As a senior developer at Tweakers.net and being specialized in frontend development I always take clientside performance very seriously. Even if your backend code is optimized to the bone, a slow rendering frontend can still spoil the whole experience for your visitors, and a bad first impression will make your visitors go elsewhere. A couple of recent articles on some other Dutch ICT-centered newssites made me wonder if they are taking clientside performance just as seriously. Read more » crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3301/clientside-performance-no-priority-for-dutch-websites.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3301 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:10:00 GMT Adoptie - is het echt zo erg? http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3207/adoptie-is-het-echt-zo-erg.html Iets wat insiders allang wisten, maar wat ik onlangs terugzag op de FOK! frontpage was dat stichting Meiling stopt met adopties uit India. Een besluit waar ik me in kan vinden gezien de moeilijkheden en de recente ophef hieromtrent. De reacties op dit nieuwsitem waren in my humble opinion echter tenenkrommend... Lees verder » crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3207/adoptie-is-het-echt-zo-erg.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3207 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:17:00 GMT Spam @ tweakblogs http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3127/spam-tweakblogs.html De Tweakblogs lijken de laatste tijd steeds meer in het vizier te liggen van spammers. Van de week heb ik al meer dan 300 spamreacties op (veelal oudere) blogposts getrashed, en vandaag heb ik alweer 60 anonieme spamreacties kunnen trashen. Tijd voor actie dus! Lees verder » crisp 9 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3127/spam-tweakblogs.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3127 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:47:00 GMT Having fun with IE part 5 - what item? http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3098/having-fun-with-ie-part-5-what-item.html Some more IE-weirdness. Read more » crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3098/having-fun-with-ie-part-5-what-item.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3098 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:13:00 GMT IPv6 validation - more caveats http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3049/ipv6-validation-more-caveats.html Last week I was taking a nice hot bath while reading the Regular Expression Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan. Really, there is no better way of relaxing But then chapter 7.17 made me jump out of the tub, rush to my computer, and - while still wet - start typing the regular expression printed on page 387. The chapter was called 'Matching IPv6 Addresses'. Read more » crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3049/ipv6-validation-more-caveats.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3049 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:12:00 GMT Inline validatie met een Ajax sausje http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3029/inline-validatie-met-een-ajax-sausje.html Onlangs las ik een interessant artikel op A List Apart over de gebruiks(on)vriendelijkheid van formulieren op webpagina's, en hoe de gebruikerservaring verbeterd kan worden door inline validatie toe te passen. Zelf liep ik al langer met een dergelijk idee rond en ik had daarbij al een specifiek formulier op Tweakers.net op het oog; namelijk ons registratieformulier. Naar aanleiding van het artikel op ALA heb ik besloten om dit eindelijk eens te realiseren Lees verder » crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3029/inline-validatie-met-een-ajax-sausje.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3029 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:04:00 GMT Having fun with IE - part 4: invalid argument http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2556/having-fun-with-ie-part-4-invalid-argument.html I thought I'd revive this series again after finding yet another one of those incomprehensible 'features' of IE, version 8 this time Read more » crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2556/having-fun-with-ie-part-4-invalid-argument.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2556 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:06:37 GMT