I have spent a few days researching on any new solutions of cross-site scripting. The technologies have not changed much since 1999. I still remeber the desktop.com that implemented the whole thing in a browser. The XmlHttpRequest commonly used today in Ajax can not be used in cross-site due to security restriction imposed by browser. The next one is IFrame. The third one is to use Script tag that loads JSON.

Script returning JSON is good for communicating data between two sites, but it requires additional work to render UI in JavaScript based on JSON data.

It will probably take a few years before a new standard for cross-site Java-scripting emerges and becomes widely adopted. Until then meshing up web applications and services from different sites will be limited and inefficient.

All IE versions have problem rendering OL tag properly in HTML with the width you want even though the OL is within another DIV that has a width set. If you're reading this blog using Internet Explorer, you will notice that the Top Tags section on the right side bar is way wide. On the other hand, Firefox, Chrome and Opera all handle it nicely.

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10, I have not used Vista on my laptop much. I run personal finance program on Vista. Other than that, there’s no real need to boot into Vista lately.

Does Intuit provide Quicken on Linux? It’s time to have some good finance application for Linux.

With Chromium, you can run Google’s Chrome on Linux and in particular on Unbuntu 8.10. Luanching into youtube.com, it will prompt you to install flash plugin. After installation, both audio and video work fine.

It’s definitely a good tool to validate your web pages for Chrome without leaving Ubuntu desktop.

Firefox (3.0.3) will lock up after loading the first web site. To rule out if it's related to my network, I tried Opera and it worked fine. It didn't happen yesterday. There must be some latest updates I applied that changed something on Firefox. I did apply all the updates on 8.10.