'Most websites' failing disabled
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Ninety seven percent of websites are failing to provide even basic access for disabled people, a survey finds.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo suffered availability problems on Friday that affected its home page as well as some of its other Web sites and services for a sustained period of time.
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Will a trifecta try at fixing Internet Explorer patch be the charm?
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An anonymous reader writes &quot;All browsers have been reported vulnerable to different vulnerabilities today. Starting with: Internet Explorer on XP SP1/SP2, which suffers a new system compromise (of course) vulnerability.
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Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 do not properly handle JavaScript "onUnload" events and can be tricked into taking a user to the wrong URL, according to security researcher Michal Zalewski.
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Gregory Szorc writes today about a fact that's only recently come true in PHP's handling of errors - it seems that it now returns proper HTTP status codes when a problem comes up.   If it encounters a serious error, like a parse error, it just stops and there is nothing you can do about it. If this happens on a hosted web site, you get a blank page served with the HTTP status code of 200. Completely useless to remote connections.   This fix will be included in the next version of PHP - the upcoming 5.2.4 release.
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LONDON -- President Bushâs campaign Web site was inaccessible to surfers outside the United States and Canada following a series of outages last week that may have been electronic attacks.
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By Glynis Jones  Dear Editor, It is all very well older people learning to use the internet, but a lot of them are never going to be able to afford to buy a computer to use at home.
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Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections
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97% of websites fall short WCAG guidelines Ninety-seven per cent of websites fail to achieve a minimum level of accessibility, according to the first ever global web accessibility survey. A new UN convention aims to change that.â¦
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Yesterday China Herald tipped me that the Yahoo.com website (the English version) didn&#8217;t resolve. I checked, saw that it was true and thought I would check back the next day if the situation had changed.  At times these things happen here in China and it could have been a technical problem instead of a block. [...]
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Spam wars Spamhaus, the leading anti-spam organisation, has restored its site and services to normal after a distributed denial of service attack rendered its site temporarily inaccessible for several hours on Monday.â¦
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The site that helps people evade registration roadblocks on websites couldn't evade trouble itself. Its server host, perhaps bowing to pressure, pulled the plug last week. But a new host is found and BugMeNot is back up. By Rachel Metz.
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Windows, Linux and Java each fail some basic integrity rules.
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(InfoWorld) - The failure of a DNS (domain name system) server at Comcast caused problems for some Web surfers in the northeast section of the U.S. Tuesday, making several Web sites, including Google, inaccessible. The server failure caused connectivity problems for a "few hours," said Jeanne Russo, a Comcast spokeswoman. By late Tuesday, the broadband provider had rerouted traffic to other servers, she said. An undetermined number of Google users who subscribe to Comcast's broadband service "experienced problems accessing Google and other services for a short period of time," a GoogleÂ spokesman said via e-mail. "Google engineers helped troubleshoot the problem and provided diagnostic information to the ISP. We believe the issue has since been resolved by the ISP," the spokesman wrote. The server was knocked offline because of a hardware failure, Russo said. She couldn't exactly how many Web pages were unavailable to Comcast users, but said that the problem was confined to "a number of sites." The problems were "very isolated, very random," she added.
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Damien Seguy has continued his series looking at PHP configurations around the web and is sharing the results in the form of two new reports over on Nexen.net.   I just published the second part of the serie about PHP configurations. This part focuses on three aspects of PHP: PHP extensions, PHP streams, and disabled functions.   You can find the statistics themselves here and the latest configuration statistics here. It's interesting to see the drop-off when it comes to the various modules that are installed ("php, ftp and http are the most common. Besides them, tough luck.") and to see the somewhat more gradual curve of which functions are disabled - with system() topping out the list (with good reason).