October, 18, 2001 archives

the gaping security holes in phpnuke and postnuke cease to amaze me. these things are the slash 1.x (or bugzilla) of the php world -- everyone loves them, but they are pretty dismal examples of programming.

sock monkey, a flash movie, based on the comic of the same name. (via boingboing.)

i really like the look of <div>'s that have a lightly colored background with a similarly colored thin dark border. they work really well on a white background, but the work elsewhere, too.

dillo is a very cool little browser written using gtk+. it makes me wonder how difficult it really is to write a standards-compliant html rendering engine. (unfortunately, dillo doesn't support css. but it is amazingly fast and the html rendering seems pretty solid.)