Also:
A browser shall not be dependent or locked into the operating system. It shall be a software standing on its own.
Just my $0.05

Standards matter. Before standards, every browser had its own play book. With standards, every browser’s on the same page. Great for developers, standards let them create sites that work on all browsers out of the box. Great for the browsing public, they ensure that you enjoy a great experience on every site you visit. And these technologies are free for anyone to use.

I am currently spending some time checking out HTML5 and CSS3. And from what I can see the browser world is now just as unsynchronized as it was in the first browser war.
My inspiration for checking the new features in HTML5 and CSS3 is the fact that so many people are saying that with HTML5 (and CSS3) Flash is dead.

Well.

The good thing about Flash is that it runs on all platforms, though really slow on iPads and iPhones – but that’s another issue. It is browser independent, which makes it look the same in all browsers. That’s what makes Flash a graphic designers choice instead of HTML5/CSS3.
An example I can use is this:
Let’s say there is a website wanting to show information about the players on the teams playing in the World Cup in South Africa (in 2010). The designer want some animation like flipping cards, sliding in/sliding out and so on. Let’s say the company creating this application wants to use HTML5. Well, he can’t:

1. Internet Explorer (from 6 up to current build of IE) does not understand all the 3d-stuff in CSS3
2. Firefox 3.6 (and most likely 3.7) does not understand all the 3d-stuff in CSS3
3. Opera 10.5 (and most likely 10.6) does not understand all the 3d-stuff in CSS3
4. Chrome 5 does not understand all the 3d-stuff in CSS3

So there is only Safari (with about 5% of the market) that understands the 3d-stuff in CSS3. Which is not so weird. Apple was one of the promoters of 3D-transformations in CSS.
Also: In Flash there is only one build. There are no specific style sheet for IE(6-X), Firefox, Webkit/Chrome/Safari or Opera. There are no need for [IF IE] in the HTML/CSS-code.

I do hope that the developers and the designers who works with CSS3 and HTML5 at Apple will become advocates of standards and that they will fight for this in their forums. I experienced the lasts browser war (which Microsoft claims it won… you don’t win wars, ok! and… look where it left us: With IE6 still being widely used in 2010!!!). I don’t want another one in 2010.

And I think there is only one way we can achieve a compliant standard that all browse vendors will follow: Start thinking of your users and the web developers. Stop creating HTML/CSS rendering engines. Standardize on one or two (Webkit and Mozilla, with the latter also being the one to disappear).
Sorry Microsoft. When you are nine years behind… although you did invent the XMLhttpRequest, most important part of AJAX, why not start contributing to an open source project instead?
And sorry Opera. Your market share is way to small, and I think you are better off using one of the other engines and start contributing to those instead. And: Three is one to many (or three is a crowd as the saying goes).

So what shall the vendors do when they cannot focus on their own engine?

• Contribute to the two standard engines (webkit/mozilla)
• Focus on making the best looking, fastest or functional browser out there.

Usage: If you want to create a modal form/window, a “popup” or a lightbox you have to use Javascript. I am suggesting this tag to remove the javascript need to create such a standard feature on the web. This technique uses iframe and css to create the look.

Implementation: I am suggesting that can use most of the same attributes as iframe/frame.
Adding the following attributes:

• modal
  boolean, if the window shall be modal or not
• movable
  boolean, true if the window shall be moveable, false if not
• fade-background-color
  Color, set the background color being used when window opens. Default is dark gray…
• background-opacity
  integer, set the transparency for the background

I am not part of the W3 HTML 5 working group and I have not posted this suggestion to this group. I am just suggesting it here as something I wish to see in HTML 5.

1. Because sometime in the future you might have to go back to the code and fix it. It’s always nice to know what the initial idea was. And with years and years of programming, you now know a better way to do it. If you don’t have the comment, you have to analyze your own code much more thoroughly.
2. If someone else is going to work with your code, it is always nice for them to read your comments. It makes it easier for them to understand the code and to get into it.
3. It can be fun looking at the comments you’ve written. I recently looked over some code I did back in 2005(ish) and here I write: “This part is done in an amazingly stupid way” or what about: “I must do this to keep the string value (line break and some code)Really…????“.
   I posted this on twitter and I got an answer from Frank W. Zammetti (fzammetti): “The person that wrote this is a grade A a**hole… oh wait, it was me!” I wrote that one once.
   I just couldn’t stop laughing.

This is my style of commenting (example in PHP/C/C++/C#-style)
My first line in the file is always the name of the file. This is a habit I’ve grown to use. It is smart when you are editing code in e.g. VI where you not necessary get the name of the file in the titlebar.



// name-of-file.php

Next comes a general description of what the code in the file shall do:

/**
* This file is used to create and edit blog posts
*

Eclipse, Komodo-IDE and NetBeans (And probably other IDEs) supports @todo in the comment. By adding this "tag" you add tasks to your tasks list.
I tend to add tasks in the beginning of the file.

* @todo: This file need some work.
* @todo: Fix the code related to creating blog posts

In the same area I also write out bugs that I have fixed, or tasks that I have completed:

* FIXES:
* 01.01.2010: Fixed a bug related to updating a blogpost
* 17.05.2010: Translated all of the comments from Norwegian to English
*/

(note/suggestion) I wouldn't mind if the IDEs could have a @fixed element that I could add to the end of the line so that the IDE could mark out the task as completed.

Then in the code I can comment like this (note that PHP-example is just as an example here):

// Fixing the string so that it is ready for SQL-input
$string = mysql_real_escape_string($string);

// Creating a string for a dropdown-menu.
foreach ($this as $that) {
$string .= $that;
}


I also sometimes use comments to clear my head or to get a clear overview of the task at hand. This is especially important when you feel that the task is complicated.
An example could be:

/**
* In this section we shall create the tree-view.
* We must remember that all nodes starting with W shall be at the top
* And that we shall mark posts with pictures with a (p) or a small icon
* Also remember that no lines can be longer than 25 characters. Check the left syntax in mySQL...
*/


This is also good practice when you sometimes do not return to the code in a couple of days. An example could be:

/**
* continue here on Monday.
* The idea behind the following section is ... .... .. . . ..
*/


Hope this post regarding commenting your code is of any help for you. If you have any great examples of self criticism in your code, please do post them as comments... (No pun intended)

• Connect to the web server with ssh (shell account)
• Change ownership to the file to apache by running chmod apache:apache index.htm

Now you should be able to change the content of the file with PHP.
I have seen suggestions on websites where they say that you should change the mode to 775 or even worse, 777. This is a security breach and so you should not do so.
Hope this helps someone out

Suggested links

• fopen
• chmod (within PHP)
• file_get_contents
• file_put_contents
• Top 7 PHP Security Blunders
• PHP Security Mistakes
• A nice forum post regarding chmod
• There are of course someone out there saying that chmod to 777 is not a security risk: Why chmod 777 is NOT a security risk

This is the solution:

First you connect to your ftp-server
$connection = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$login = ftp_login($connection, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_password);


You then check if it was possible to log in. If it wasn’t, you have to end the script.

if (!$connection || !$login) {
die('Connection attempt failed!');
}


I then created a local directory (/temp/) where I want these files to be downloaded. Then I created a filename.
For my solution I am getting most values from a database, so here I am only creating a example filename

$localfile = "./temp/example.doc";
$remotefile = "/dir/seconddir/example.doc";


Now we do the actual download and at the same time the download to the visitor:

if (ftp_get($connection, $localfile, $remotefile, FTP_BINARY)){
header('Content-Length: '. filesize($localfile));
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($localfile).'"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
readfile($localfile); // send the file
exit; // make sure no extraneous characters get appended
}


The file will be stored locally, and since you don’t know when the user has gotten the file, set up a cronjob to remove downloaded files so that your area doesn’t get filled with files you don’t need.

What you also can do, is to check if the file is downloaded already.

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I hope this was of help for someone.

Wife: An iPhone/iPad application that bugs the living …. Out of you. It shall remove/lock any contacts where name resembles a women or a person interested in soccer/football or any other type of sport. It shall also lock applications that can be used to guide the owner to a bar or other establishment selling alcohol. Map-application can be unlocked if spouse is very close by.
Price: $10

Ex-wife: opens any contacts where name resembles a women or a person interested in soccer or any other type of sport. Map also opens for guidance to bards or other establishment selling alcohol.
Price: Wife*2 (everyone knows that x-wifes are expencive) – Wife*200 if mistress is installed… J

Mistress: Same as ex-wife but much more subtle way – it also makes Wife very suspicious and will also force Wife to become more brutal and lock more services…
Price: Wife*100 (everyone knows that mistresses are way more expensive than wifes)

Child-app: Makes the hardware very unstable. Moves keyboard keys and shortcuts around. Also uninstalls apps at random – and of course especially just when you need them.. J
Price: $1 (kids are just fun!)

In-law: A more subtle version of wife and pretty much a pain in the neck!
Price: (hard to say, they aren’t really expensive, just a pain in the neck) $5 (but wife must be installed, so it’s actually $15)

Now all I have to do is find an iPhone/iPad developer.