Vint Cerf opposes ITU Internet regulations, urges action. Evolution-of-web-design.png (PNG Image, 1000x9923 pixels) - Scaled (6%) The Evolution of Web Design Infographic. Tim Berners-Lee created the web in France, not Switzerland. Sir Tim Berners-Lee inventing the World Wide Web during his time as a researcher at the CERN laboratory is part of the Internet's fabled history, but there's another twist in the tale — it turns out that the Web as we know it actually came to fruition in France, not Switzerland as many had assumed. CERN has a huge international campus that crosses the Franco-Swiss border, and while the entrance to the facility is in Geneva, Berners-Lee has revealed in an email conversation with Yelp co-founder David Galbraith that he was actually working out of Building 31 on the French side. There's no marked border in CERN, though, and Berners-Lee was living in rented accommodation in Switzerland around the time, so it's probably not fair to lump the Web in with the hot air balloon and champagne as a purely French invention.
As Galbraith notes, the international birth of the Web is fitting for a creation that has done so much to break down borders. Place Pulse | The Collaborative Image of the City.
Alternative to CAPTCHA - Protect Web Forms from Spam with Javascript. What’s the ideal check to protect your web forms from spambots? No one really likes having to copy squiggly letters from a CAPTCHA image, but is there a better alternative? The ideal check would be one that most people don’t ever notice, but which effectively keeps out all spambots. In this tutorial, I describe a technique that uses Javascript to recognise human activity based on screen events, which works very well for us. In a discussion on Scratch Forums on the merits of CAPTCHA, one of our members suggested a possible alternative that detected JavaScript events (mouse events, keystrokes) to show that it’s a human completing the form. I took on the challenge of creating a simple JS-based alternative to CAPTCHA, which I’ll explain below. High-level Requirements Am I Human?
First of all, our form will need some way of sending the answer to “am I human” through to the back-end script. For this, I’ll just use a hidden field. Switch it For Humans Testing Results with Script Here’s what I do: