Identify the scam?
by Simon Smith
A friend writes:
"I just came across a curious fake web site, the point of which escapes me.
>From where I got the link from, I expected it to be a bona fide
robotics-related site, but the front page just contained a picture of an
ASIMO robot and nothing else. I looked at the source and found some
insubstantial text about robots, a block of porn links, and some obfuscated
JavaScript.
"I expected the JavaScript to unravel to some exploit, but all it did was
load and execute a JavaScript file, which in turn loaded and executed
another JavaScript file. The only effect of this one was to cause all of the
text in the body of the original page to be wrapped in <div id="front">
</div> , and provide CSS defining the "front" style as position:absolute;
left:-5000; top:0; width:100% and a few other things of little
significance. In other words, it shifted the entire content way off the
left-hand side of the window, in a way that did not cause the browser to put
in a horizontal scroll bar that would allow it to be accessed.
"I searched around and found several other sites that had this sort of thing
in them. What is accomplished by placing porn links into a page and then
making it impossible for anyone to see them? I looked up the site on the
Wayback machine, and it appears there was a real web site there until late
2006, when I guess they let the registration lapse, because it was then held
by a registration company, and took on its present form in 2007."
I'd like to know what they're doing too. Some sort of link farming or
googlebombing trick? Is this a related trick to that of pop-up launching? I
have to say, I would like to know if a site is trying to hide things from me
in sneaky ways like this. How would NetSurf handle it?
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Simon Smith The idea of an uncrackable digital rights management
(DRM) scheme is fundamentally flawed. Encryption is
about A sending information to B while ensuring that
C cannot read it. In DRM, B and C are the same person.
15 years, 2 months
Behaviour differs with different hardware
by Gary Jones
I have the same version of Netsurf installed on VRPC machine and a
Kinetic RPC. Both machines are running RO 6.06 and yet Netsurf can
access my Nationwide Banking account on the laptop but NOT on the RPC.
Here is the URL: https://olb2.nationet.com/pda/NBSPDA2.asp
It's the mobile (cut-down) version of their online banking interface.
Oregano1 and 2 manage this on the RPC but not Nefsurf. It just reloads
the page when you click on the "GO" button. On the VRPC using the
same version it accesses my bank accounts without any problem.
Can anyone suggest what is going on here?
Thanks
Gary
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Gary Jones
15 years, 2 months
background colour in TABLEs ?
by Roger Darlington
In HTML like:
<TABLE width=548 border=1 bgcolour="#eeffee">
<P> text etc
</TABLE>
The background table colour is ignored.
I have looked at the Progress page, and it mentions
TABLES>
Elements col, colgroup, rowgroup and caption not implemented.
It doesn't seem to mention background colour as not being implemented.
[O2 doesn't ignore it, nor do other browsers I have tried].
Is the HTML legal?
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Cheers
Roger
All good things come to an Ent. Hooooooom.
15 years, 2 months
Background colours
by Dave Symes
Got a problem... guess there is an answer but can't seem to find it.
Silly people create sites with black backgrounds, then plonk grey text on
it... or Dark blue text.
In Oregano, If I tick Off the "Use Document colours" the black background
is replaced with white and I can see the grey text.
Is there a comparable option in NetSurf? I'm using NS (02 Dec 2007 06:00)
Cheers
Dave S
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15 years, 2 months
Scroll wheel behaviour
by Richard Porter
I've noticed a slightly odd behaviour when using the scroll wheel of a
PC mouse with RO6.06.
If I click Adjust on a link to open a link in a new window, the new
window has focus but the scroll wheel doesn't work until I have
clicked any button on the window. If I then close the new window the
original window does not have focus but the scroll wheel does work
straight away.
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