By observing news and public discussions I feel that there is a growing awareness of data privacy and an increasing demand for secure person-to-person communication. In order to address my communication needs, I plugged together a few Javascript libraries and started the Webencryption [1] project on Github. What is Webencryption? Webencryption is a rather crude … Continue reading Secure messaging in the browser
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Unjam CSS
Abstract: Unjam CSS is a technique for removing render-blocking CSS from pages over which we have only partial control, such as CMS or portals. The problem: a portal generates HTML pages based on a template. Custom HTML can be inserted at specific place holders, but we can't modify the rest of the page HTML. The … Continue reading Unjam CSS
Equal height HTML elements in a container with CSS
Task: create HTML elements that contain other elements and adjust their height to surrounding container. No Javascript allowed.That's surprisingly hard; height:100% won't work; elements generally wrap their contents tightly and don't extend to their parents height dimension.Illustrating the problem: three elements inside a surrounding containerCss-tricks lists several ways [1] to get this done, two of … Continue reading Equal height HTML elements in a container with CSS
The jsp-file directive
The jsp-file directive in web.xml allows mapping of JSPs to concrete URLs: Shame on me, I didn't know about this. As seen here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/200107.mbox/%3CPine.BSF.4.21.0107271807540.7976-100000@localhost%3E
Spring @PathVariable mapping incomplete path when dots are included
In all my projects this happens at least once, and I'm surprised over and over again: a controller will not map just anything to @PathVariable by default. Contrary to intuition, the annotation's argument is a regular expression which excludes some characters per default. For instance the urlhttp://localhost:8080/myapp/api/user/testuser@example when mapped to a controller:@RequestMapping(value = "/api/user/{email}")ModelAndView findUserByEmail(@PathVariable("email") … Continue reading Spring @PathVariable mapping incomplete path when dots are included
On translating Tweets
I've been following the indonesian startup community for a while, but unfortunately my bahasa is not quite at the level that allows me to casually drop a glance at twitter and go on with my work. While looking for a solution to translate tweets into english for firefox, it turns out that there are a … Continue reading On translating Tweets
