Linked List: March 21, 2005

Monday, 21 March 2005

About Safari International Domain Name Support ★: Details on Security Update 2005-003’s IDN security fix for Web Kit. Great explanation of the problem and Apple’s solution.
Security Update 2005-003 ★: Includes a Safari/Web Kit update to address the IDN domain-name-spoofing issue. Judging by the description, it’s a good solution: by default, they disallow Roman-look-alike scripts. This allows non-Roman Unicode characters in domain names (say, for Asian languages), but disallows the use of Unicode trickery to use a domain name that looks like, say, “paypal.com”, but which really contains one or more obscure Roman Unicode characters that just happen to look like ‘a’, ‘l’, ‘p’, or ‘y’.
Caminobrowser.org ★: New web site. (Via Daniel Bogan.)
Super Shuffle Was Just a Publicity Stunt? ★: So reports Engadget.
Literally Daring Fireball ★: The BBC News reports that a fireball created in a particle accelerator “may be a black hole”. (Via Dan Benjamin via email.)
Jason Santa Maria: Typographic Glass Ceiling ★: It’s sad how few fonts a web designer can count on today. The six new screen fonts from Microsoft do look good — here’s to hoping they make them freely available to other platforms to spread their adoption. One could argue that making these fonts available to Mac and Linux users would be good for Windows users, too, as it would make it more likely that web designers would specify them in their pages.