Month: December 2012

CSS Cursors

The use of CSS cursors within your browser based application or website is a great way to add feedback to the user to increase usability. This is increasingly important for AJAX applications that may be “busy” even when the user is not directly taking action within their browser.

These are all easily appended to classes in your CSS files:

  • default
  • auto
  • inherit
  • pointer
  • crosshair
  • text
  • help
  • move
  • progress
  • wait
  • e-resize
  • ne-resize
  • n-resize
  • nw-resize
  • w-resize
  • sw-resize
  • s-resize
  • se-resize

Partial (CSS3) support in current browsers:

  • none
  • all-scroll
  • context-menu
  • cell
  • vertical-text
  • alias
  • copy
  • no-drop
  • not-allowed
  • col-resize
  • row-resize
  • ew-resize
  • ns-resize
  • nesw-resize
  • nwse-resize

NOTE: for very old browser, you can also set several attributes to allow for the supported one to be used.

.example {
cursor:hand;/* IE5-IE5.5 only support (dropped in IE9) */
cursor:pointer; /* IE6 and later */
}

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Morfeus scanner

I was scanning my server log files the other day and found that this old “bot” is still making the rounds. It help’s to shut the door on this with some configuration. It’s specifically looking for PHP vulnerabilities and is easily identified by the expletive in it’s User-Agent HTTP request headers.

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X-XSS-Protection HTTP Header

This HTTP Header is a feature added by MSIE8 to force it to restrict some XSS vectors that can be disabled by the user. Generally you can add it into your webserver configuration.

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

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