Mokka mit Schlag » Web Development

Anyone know off the top of their head how to get a regular HTML link to bring up the linked document in a new background window when clicked? I do not control the document being linked to. The goal is to run through a site such as Artima or Digg and click all the interesting links. Then close the window and have all the articles opened there for me to read. In my case, I can control the page I’m linking from but not the page I’m linking to. This is for my personal aggrgeator so it only needs to work in Firefox. Ideas?

I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.7 to close various security holes (though I very much doubt this release closes the last of them. WordPress is still breaking one of the most fundamental rules of HTTP: Thou shalt not use GET for unsafe operations.) Holler if you notice anything funky.

Several people have started to push back on the REST vs. WS-* and RELAX vs. W3C XSD and Rails vs. JEE fronts with a self-defeating argument. Well, of course, you’re right they say; but it doesn’t matter. The big vendors are selling these big, expensive complex solutions; and that’s all the CIO hears; so that’s all that matters. Sure, you can get the job done better/faster/cheaper with Rails/REST/RELAX, but you won’t. Well, to these pessimists I have a one-word response:

CORBA
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I’m getting ready to install PHP 5.2.0 here. Mostly I just want to try to make it link to a newer version of libxml. If it all goes pear-shaped, I’ll post a note on Cafe au Lait while I restore.
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I’ve been eagerly testing the various betas of Firefox 2.0 to see if it fixes some of my personal pet peeves. So far it looks like I’m going to have to start voting for or opening new bugs on these subjects:
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