web applications

Does Offline Mode Still Matter?

It's the classic achilles heel of web applications-- without an internet connection, they're useless. It's why both Firefox and Internet Explorer still have Work Offline under the File menu, hanging there like a vestigial tail. But do you know anyone that actually uses work

security

Canonicalization: Not Just for Popes

You may remember the ASP.NET canonicalization vulnerability from last year. And what exactly is canonicalization? From Microsoft’s Design Guidelines for Secure Web Applications: Data in canonical form is in its most standard or simplest form. Canonicalization is the process of converting data to its canonical form. File paths