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Direct link to the article An Exploit … in CSS?!
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An Exploit … in CSS?!

Read an explanation of the recent CVE-2026-2441 vulnerability that was labeled a "CSS exploit" that "allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page."
Lee Meyer on Feb 25, 2026 Updated on Feb 26, 2026
Direct link to the article Building a Honeypot Field That Works
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Building a Honeypot Field That Works

Honeypots are fields that developers use to prevent spam submissions. They still work in 2025. But you got to set a couple of tricks in place so spambots can’t detect your honeypot field.
Zell Liew on Oct 20, 2025 Updated on Oct 29, 2025
Direct link to the article Passkeys: What the Heck and Why?
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Passkeys: What the Heck and Why?

These things called passkeys sure are making the rounds these days. They were a main attraction at W3C TPAC 2022, gained support in Safari 16, are finding their way into macOS and iOS, and are slated to …

Neal Fennimore on Apr 12, 2023 Updated on Oct 30, 2025
Direct link to the article How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website
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How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website

Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into this problem a few months ago. While I was researching how to solve …

Lorenzo Bonannella on Oct 6, 2022
Direct link to the article Using SVG in WordPress (2 Helpful Plugin Recommendations)
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Using SVG in WordPress (2 Helpful Plugin Recommendations)

SVG is a great image format, so it's nice to able to use it in WordPress. If you're looking to be using SVG in WordPress. , we've got you covered here with all the best options.
Chris Coyier on Jan 21, 2022
Direct link to the article CSS-Based Fingerprinting
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CSS-Based Fingerprinting

Fingerprinting is bad. It’s a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. JavaScript has access to all sorts of fingerprinting possibilities, which then combined with the IP …

Chris Coyier on Jan 3, 2022
Direct link to the article HTML Sanitizer API
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HTML Sanitizer API

Three cheers for (draft stage) progress on a Sanitizer API! It’s gospel that you can’t trust user input. And indeed, any app I’ve ever worked on has dealt with bad actors trying to slip in and execute nefarious code …

Chris Coyier on Dec 16, 2021
Direct link to the article The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
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The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor

An interesting (scary) trick of an nearly undetectable exploit. Wolfgang Ettlinger:

What if a backdoor literally cannot be seen and thus evades detection even from thorough code reviews?

I’ll post the screenshot of the exploit from the post with the …

Chris Coyier on Dec 8, 2021
Direct link to the article Ain’t No Party Like a Third Party
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Ain’t No Party Like a Third Party

I’d like to tell you something not to do to make your website better. Don’t add any third-party scripts to your site.

That may sound extreme, but at one time it would’ve been common sense. On today’s …

Jeremy Keith on Dec 3, 2021
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