WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. Go to the WordPress Development Blog for full release details.
Microsoft has ditched its Live Search in favour of a more cuddly approach named Bing, The old Live Search was loosing viewers so a drasting re-branding has seen Bings market share increase and is set to eclipse Yahoo, come on Yahoo “Bing it!”, this move shows the raw power of branding with simple design.
Web Design Critique Of The Week 05 is from designer Jason Santa Maria, his homepage has well structured minimalism, but what really sets this design apart is that the whole web page changes for each article, making the web page truly represent the content, sift the archives to see this in action. Let’s Discuss.
WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. There’s no noticeable changes or any added features, this is the bug patching release that usually follows large updates like the WordPress 2.8 Release. Go to the WordPress Development Blog for full release details.
Shopify has released Shopify Apps, along with an API for developers. This means shop owners will be able to easily add useful features to their shops and that Shopify developers will be able to create some outstanding apps and better still theres a billing system in place for receipt of payment for the developers.
The launch of the Google Chrome Web OS is great news across the the whole tech industry, for web designers the expansion of this web based OS should mean better support for CSS 3 and HTML 5 and all the goodness that brings. I’m already dreaming of border radius, multiple backgrounds, opacity and web fonts.
I truly hate captcha’s, they are so annoying and wildy over used, we spend so much time working on the web usability of a design and ensuring accessibility to the widest audience and then we add a captcha that wrecks the flow of the web page and adds a big ole extra step in the way of the user completing a task.