On the other hand, here is an obvious bug in IE 6 that I managed to run into. In IE 6, if you attempt to dynamically change the contents of a <select> element in Javascript, via assigning a new string containing <option> elements to its innerHTML property, the select element will not be populated. In [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2008
IE 6 renders a blank page on XHTML-style script end tag
10-01-2011: And the world slides backwards. I believe all major browsers, including the latest Firefox and Safari, now have this behavior. If you see a blank XHTML-served-as-HTML page in Safari or Firefox, check the script tags and make sure they are not self-closing: always use <script> … </script> On IE 6, a well-formed and validated [...]
testing HTTPS with openssl
It’s often possible to emulate a web client by talking to a web server by hand, via telnet. $ telnet localhost 80 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to localhost. Escape character is ‘^]’. GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:18:05 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.7 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.7 OpenSSL/0.9.7l DAV/2 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.1 Last-Modified: Sat, 20 [...]
