Five software teams we hope never embrace Wabi-Sabi

Fraser Speirs channels Merlin Mann and lists the five software teams that shouldn’t embrace the principle of Wabi-Sabi.

Frontpage Page Security Issues

Security issues related to the Frontpage extensions on Apache and Netscape servers. These extensions allow Frontpage users to manage their sites from within the Frontpage program. The exploits are related to file reading permissions in these directories and are mostly limited to filtching the editor passwords for sites. Link

Phil Agre uses the Rhetoric of the Conservatives

A delightful piece by Prof. Agre, where: Just once, I would like to see someone rant about conservatives in the same tones of hysterical exaggeration that now pour forth from every medium, 24 hours a day, in excoriation of the real and imagined perfidy of liberals. What would this sound like? Let me offer an [...]

Netscape Says it May Modify What’s Related Feature in Next Communicator Release

Go Dave Go! Dave Winer’s been working hard on this issue. Thanks! Link

Another Warning about Privacy Holes in Netscape 4.5

I had thought this just applied to Communicator, however I just installed Navigator 4.7 (Win32) and the What’s Related feature is active here as well. You still should turn off JavaScript in Navigator when accessing new or untrustworthy sites because of the bug which allows for someone to grab your global history file. I’m trying [...]

More Privacy Bugs in the New Netscape Browser

The default settings for the browser wind up sending every URL you fetch to Netscape’s servers. Link

Netscape Style Sheet and Javascript Bug

Demonstration of a bug affecting body declarations in a stylesheet when the <NOSCRIPT> element is used for the sake of accessiblity. More than a year after I published this note, the bug has not been fixed. Maybe Raptor will deal with it. Link