Thursday, 24th July 2003
Comment Authentication Prototype
I’ve built a prototype of the comment signature system discussed earlier. The prototype consists of an authentication server which anyone can register with and support on this blog for verifying signatures. So far it seems to work.
[... 434 words]Mailinator and email validation
So, Mailinator (via Joel). It’s a brilliant concept; whenever a site you don’t trust insists on you giving them an email address you invent something-random@mailinator.com and give them that instead. Then you go to the Mailinator site, enter the something-random and see the emails recently sent to that address.
[... 213 words]More CSS tips and tricks
- Lachlan Cannon shows off some neat tricks for styling forms with minimal markup on the freshly redesigned illuminosity. I used his CSS for the forms in the comment authentication prototype and it worked a treat.
- Adam Kalsey struts his stuff with techniques for dotted borders in IE and a nice new rounded box corners method.
- Dave Shea reclaims Times New Roman. I’d been avoiding it for so long I’d completely missed the idea of sprucing it up with CSS. Lovely.