OpenID SeatBelt plugin for Firefox

May 9th • No Comments • Under: Understanding Web • Tags: openid

With OpenID SeatBelt plugin (developed by VeriSign) you can now manage your OpenID identities and delegations right inside Firefox. This plugin automatically fills-in OpenID input fields on websites and blogs that support OpenID authentication. It also enables fast identity provider (IdP) switching and protects against OpenID phishing attempts.

In one of the future posts I will explain how to add a SeatBelt configuration file to phpMyID single indentity provider software so that it can be used with your privately installed OpenID.

How to Be Your Own OpenID Provider and Use Your blog’s URL for Identification

April 23rd • 1 Comment • Under: Understanding Web, WordPress • Tags: openid, Understanding Web, web, WordPress

If you have a self-hosted blog, meaning that you have the access to the files on the server, then implementing OpenID might be the greatest way to help your readers and yourself.

If you haven’t heard about the OpenID before, then in a nutshell it is your universal login name, which you can use to authenticate yourself on other blogs and websites without ever filling out those registration forms again. Read more »

IE8 Version Targeting — Understanding and Discussing the Arguments

January 23rd • No Comments • Under: Understanding Web, Web Critique • Tags: web standards

In defense of version targeting is a follow-up article by Jeffrey Zeldman to his previous post and the topic of browser version targeting feature planned for the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8. His arguments (in favor of version targeting) might seem to be valid at first, but they are not enough in comparison to those who are against the version targeting.

Let’s start with an example (dates and browser versions are made up and are not important to illustrate the point). I made a website a two years ago (in 2006) and followed the W3C standards which resulted in a perfect content rendering in most of the standards aware browsers. Read more »

Browser Version Targeting vs. the Web Standards

January 23rd • 1 Comment • Under: Understanding Web, Web Critique • Tags: critique, suggestion, web standards

The following articles in the latest issue of the A List Apart magazine explain the necessity of browser targeting with the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8, which is expected to be the most standards aware browser from Microsoft to date.

• Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 by Aaron Gustafson,
• From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey by Eric Meyer.

To me the idea of browser targeting seems absolutely absurd, and reasons for that are so many that it will require another post to explain them all in detail. Here are just a few. Read more »

Advertising on the Web

December 11th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes, Understanding Web

What’s the purpose? Are you also immune to the ads? What do you think about the ad blocking browser extensions? Are you using ads on your blog/site? Here is my take on this.