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Thin borders fade automatically in Firefox

First time I noticed this: The div with the logo and the language selection div below have a 10px solid left border in blue (matching the background color) and a 1px white bottom border, which leads to a nice gradient in Firefox 3: Nice, though I wonder if this behaviour can be influenced. In IE, [...]

SQL Injections – why companies should care (and users, too)

While I had read reports about successful mass SQL attacks on hundreds of thousands – by some estimates even millions – of websites months ago, I didn’t really care much, assuming that this issue would only concern outdated, irrelevant and poorly coded websites. I realized I was wrong (partially wrong) about a week ago when [...]

Expression web span lang tags

Does Expression Web (version 1 or 2) add tags (“lang spans”) to everything you type in design view? It nearly drove me crazy with this behavior and the many language-related options in different menus, but after I figured out what was going on I actually came to appreciate this feature (when working on multilingual sites).

Best of SQL injection attacks*

Best of SQL injection attacks (no, it wasn’t me)…

Expression Web UI language settings

After installing Expression Web (version 1) and the German language pack on my new PC running the German version of Windows Vista (Home Premium x64), my previously English Expression Web suddenly displayed the user interface (UI) in – you guessed it – German. I’m not sure if the language pack or the operating system is [...]