Simon Willison’s Weblog

A brief unofficial history about register_globals in PHP. It’s been more than five years since register_globals was disabled by default in PHP 4.2.0.

# 8:20 am / history, philip-olson, php, registerglobals

Timing and Synchronization in JavaScript. Comprehensive overview of how browsers (Opera in particular) load scripts and queue events, with suggestions for best practices.

# 2:24 pm / browsers, javascript, opera, timing

Dev.Opera article index. Should be of interest to all client-side web developers.

# 2:26 pm / opera, web-development