http://www.simon20.com world of simon in 2.0 mode Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:53:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Got Hacked? This is what tech folk at RIAA, the "Famous" Recording Industry Association of America, been facing for the past few days. Apparently, some geeks found out that RIAA's main web site is powered by an older version of Exponent Content Management System (CMS). This version of the CMS contains many ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2008/01/24/riaa-web-site-trashed/ We all know how painful it is to deal with the standard differences when it comes to javascript programming across IE and Firefox. There can be many to be listed, but I'm going to list them out as a series of posts over time. These are going to be my ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2008/01/10/ie-vs-ff-on-javascript-01/ Woohoo! This is beyond exciting, seriously. If you are familiar with DOM traverse with javascript (which i'm 99% sure you are, cus you are reading my blog), you should be excited as well. Think about the limited ways that we have today about DOM traverse: getElementByID getElementsByTagName getElementsByName (limited to form elements under IE) And ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2008/01/07/webkit-gets-native-getelementsbyclassname/ Yes, 2008 is here. Looking back on how we have mastered on CSS styling, it is very cheerful. There are many lists out there that showcase all kinds of cool things you can do with just CSS+XHTML, but this list in particular is one of my favorite. Many techniques shown ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2008/01/04/53-css-techniques-you-couldn%e2%80%99t-live-without/ Happy new year to everyone. 2008 is finally here. Looking back at 2007, it was definitely an interesting and exciting year. Here are a few highlights (the ones i can remember at least) Release of Mac OSX Leopard Adobe AIR Adobe Flex Chart 2 Aptana Reached v.1.0 jQuery and Prototype both released its own official book Gmail ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2008/01/02/happy-new-year/ Run ScriptEdit and put the following script in there and follow these instructions: 1. Run World of Warcraft >> Login >> Ready to Queue for BG 2. Run the Script 3. Go find a spot to hide 4. Requeue :3 set CR to ASCII character of 13 set space to ASCII character of 32 set random_time ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/14/wow-bg-afk-applescript/ Got Wikipedia? Google does now. I'm sure anyone of you that is reading my blog knows what Wikipedia is. It was a brilliant idea to bring everyone on the web together to create information knowledge database. But now, after years of Wikipedia.org's domination, Google is moving into the space to ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/14/googles-new-toy-knol/ The IE team has just released the preview version of the change. As mentioned one of the earlier blog post, the annoying "click here to activate" on embedded contents on IE will be reverted in up coming Service Pack release. As promised, a preview of this update is now released for ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/12/ie-automatic-component-activation-preview-now-available/ Just as u and i though iPhone gets copied was crazy enough, let me introduce you with Vii. Confused? In plain simple term, a copied version of Wii. God, i'm so "proud" of being a Chinese. Share This http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/11/wii-vii/ Lachlant Hunt wrote up a blog post that gives us a Preview of HTML5 In one of my earlier post Webkit Introduces: HTML5 Media Support, we reviewed the media support of the HTML5, but there are much much more. In this post, Lachlant Hunt highlighted some really useful features introduced in ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/11/html-5-sneak-preview/ I was on a business trip last week in China and now I'm finally back to the states. Some of you might have noticed the lack of posts for the past few days. I'm going to make up for those as soon as i'm recovered from the stupid jet lag.Share ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/11/back-in-states/ It seems like the IE team is getting into another hype of blog posting at the year end. It is definitely a good thing for all of us who are anticipating on any updates from them. This time, Dean Hachamovitch, the General Manager released some hopes to the much waited Internet ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/07/internet-explorer-8/ Jon Sykes has found an interesting bug in IE7. In his post found a bizarre bug in IE7, he demonstrated the bug with some simple test scripts. Quite frankly, it should be a rare case to happen, but surely I've experienced the same bug before. I was so frustrated by ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/01/ie7-object-overwrite-bug/ John Hrvatin, the Program Manager for Internet Explorer has just written up some of the perspectives that the IE team is taking on IE memory leak issues. nternet Explorer 7 improved the situation by releasing all references to Jscript objects attached to the DOM tree when IE navigates away from that ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/12/01/ieblog-tools-for-detecting-memory-leaks/ According to an article on Wall Street Journal, the much talked about rumor "GDrive" or "GSpace" can become reality in a few months from now. Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/11/28/google-might-release-gdrive-soon/ Okay, i have to admit this is the first time i've seen a date library. I did do a bit of digging and found out how behind I am on js date libraries. But out of all the ones i found, none of them matched DateJs. The site has a ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/11/27/datejs-little-ninja-date-library/ I just noticed this new feature on gmail when i logged in today. It's a little tool tip that pops up when you mouse over the sender in your inbox. The little tooltip provides the profile of the sender; shortcuts to quickly send an email to the sender; to see all ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/11/27/gmail-new-sender-profile-feature/ Just came across this awesome article by Amy Hoy on web User Experiences. The much talked about User Expirence a lot of times either get overly abused or completely missed out. What really bother me is that a lot of new sites today lean towards providing cutting edge functionality but misses ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/11/26/product-pages-so-much-suck-so-easy-to-fix/ Have you ever wondered why some company's official website's design turns out to be a complete disaster? It's not like these company doesn't have enough money to lay on the table. Here's an article about "Understanding Web Design" by Jeffrey Zeldman which in my opinion outlines the common mistakes ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/11/21/understanding-web-design/ Over 200 European Web sites selling airline tickets, including many run by leading airlines, are misleading to consumers and will be shut down if they do not improve, the European Union's consumer chief said on Wednesday. Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kuneva gave airlines such as Ryanair and the owners of ... http://www.simon20.com/index.php/2007/11/16/eu-airline-web-sites-must-improve-or-be-closed/