By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: July 20, 2005
Wednesday, 20 July 2005
- Simon Willison: Understanding the Greasemonkey Vulnerability ★
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Concise overview of the recently-discovered security problems with Greasemonkey, the clever page-hacking extension system for Firefox.
- Format Footnotes With JavaScript and CSS ★
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After reading my “About the Footnotes” entry, Timothy Groves has put together a very clever CSS + JavaScript implementation. Well worth studying if you’re a markup nerd. (His technique wouldn’t quite work for me, because I occasionally use multi-paragraph footnotes, but it’s still inspiring.)
- The Big Picture: Why Are Movie Theater Revenues Declining? ★
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Good case arguing that movie theaters are ruining the experience of going to the movies by bombarding their customers with commercials. Penny-wise, pound-foolish: they’re making short-term gains with the revenue from the advertisers, but they’re killing themselves long-term, because the degradation of the experience has led to a decline in ticket sales. (Via Tim O’Reilly.)
- BART Widget ★
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Bret Victor made a terrific trip-planning widget for BART, the public transportation system in the San Francisco bay area. But for reasons I can’t comprehend, BART has nastygrammed Victor, asking him to cease using their transit map in the widget. He wasn’t making money from their map — all he was doing was making it easier for people to use their transit system. Victor is now looking for help producing a new map from scratch. (Via Nat Irons.)