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A Spoon That Tests Your Web Site

This is just a quick recommendation: I recently discovered Spoon’s browser sandbox , which allows you to test a site against any browser. This way, you don’t have to keep your own virtual machine with XP just to test your web-app with IE6. I also found it useful when browsing older web sites that don’t support my choice of browser. Spoon does require you to install a plug-in in your PC, but after that it worked flawlessly for me.
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IE? Really?

I've just encountered this amusing note on Gamer's Hell , a known gaming site: Note to Internet Explorer 6 users: your browser is unable to download files over 2 gigabytes. If you wish to download large files you must switch to a better browser. We suggest Firefox or Opera . I loved the use of the word better , and the fact that they didn't even mention IE7. And to think that not so long ago IE6 was the standard 95% of the Internet users used.
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Why client-side validation is a lie

You probably heard it a million times. It is one of the golden rules of web-development. Do not rely solely on client-side validation to ensure you get the data that you expect from the browser. Anyone can send you a crafted request that bypasses your script validation. Always validate on the server as well. And yet, I see a lot of commercial sites that ignore this rule, and it is easy as hell to break their logic. In fact, with the following simple steps I will show, you can bypass any javascript...
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