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Oh, so THAT’S why I’m not getting any comments…

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

It appears comments are broken here. I tried posting one, and the preview just kept telling me to fill in my name and email, even though they were. That would explain, then, why I haven’t gotten any comments for a month and a half. I just wish someone had told me about it.

That wouldn’t explain, though, how someone did post a comment, which my going to reply to was the reason I found out about all this. Hmm….

Edit: it seems to have fixed itself. Yay.

Edit 2: Or perhaps not. <br> doesn’t work. Maybe some other things don’t?

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PageRank

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

You know, I really wish more people linked to me. It’d be nice if I had a PageRank above 0

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Unobtrusive Javascript

Friday, April 1st, 2005

A while ago I asked if markup and behaviour could be separated. Today I stumbled on a page that shows how.

Unobtrusive Javascript

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Foxfire

Friday, April 1st, 2005

There’s been a bit of talking about the name “Foxfire” recently, and how people are confusing it and “Firefox”. So out of curiosity, I googled it.

Firefox was not in the top 100 results.

So I figured I should do my part to remedy this: Foxfire.

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Separation of markup and behaviour

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

I’m sure it’s been asked before, but if we’re supposed to have separation of content and style, I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to separate behaviour from both of those, so what’s with things like onclick and it’s relatives being attributes? Is there any way to set those externally? If not, why not? (And if so, how, more out of curiosity than usefullness, ’cause I still haven’t learned javascript…)

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Stumbleupon

Friday, March 25th, 2005

I just installed StumbleUpon again; I had it probably about a year and a half ago. I went through all my interests, options, etc, and then hit Stumble! My first result?

mozilla.org

Update: My tally now is mozilla.org, some illusions page (relatively interesting), Google Zeitgeist, and Slashdot. That’s 3/4 that I know of, including 2/4 that I know well. I thought this was supposed to help find new sites…

Update 2: So of the first 16 sites, 6 I know well, 4 I know of, one I know of and usually avoid, and only 5 were new. I’m wondering how effective this is going to be…

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One Week

Friday, March 25th, 2005

According to A Year of Bugs, Internet Explorer had only one week in 2004 when it had no unpatched remote code execution bugs. This should help any evangelism you’re doing…

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Zipped Builds

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

Zach Lipton says it perfectly.

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Reopened trackbacks

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

Just saw a post by Dean Edwards on moderating only pingbacks and trackbacks. I’ve reopened them on my blog, and hopefully it’ll work :-)

Thanks Dean!

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AIM can now publish anything you say

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

From Slashdot:

“AOL has posted new terms of service for AIM, that include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: ‘…by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.’”

So now I’m trying to get everyone I know on Jabber. If anyone wants a free @dolphinling.net Jabber screenname, just ask me.

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News on the Web and CSS

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

First off, does anyone know that internet news site that has a nice little javascript column thingy? It lays out three columns of text at whatever height can fit in the window (which may or may not be enough for the whole article), and to get to the 4th and subsequent columns you just click on a little “next” button (or a “previous” button to go back). It’s quite a cool setup.

So. I was thinking about that for a moment, and I realized that this could be incredibly easy to do with just a little bit of CSS and javascript (read: I could probably do it, without too much research, and all I know how to do in javascript right now is declare variables). If, that is, there were a ::column pseudo-element. It would just be require setting display:none on the 4th and subsequent columns, then when the next button is clicked setting display:column on the 4th column and display:none on the first one.

So, can someone post this to www-style for me, since www-style seems not to like my email?

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Zoom!

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Holy cow. I just marked a bug a duplicate of the alt text bug, and bugzilla had so many emails to send out that the (new) bug had been verified duplicate before the page finished loading.

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What’s gone on since IE 6

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

There’s a post on the IE weblog entitled “What have you guys been doing since IE6?”. In the entire post (680 words) there was not one use of the word “standard”.

Wow.

Via: Anne’s hrefs

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Trackback Spam

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

I got 7 trackback spams this morning. I’ve turned trackback off for now, but what I’d really like is for trackbacks to be held in a moderation queue, but comments not to be. Anyone have a plugin for that (or know of a better solution)?

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w3.org no longer redirecting to www.w3.org?

Monday, February 21st, 2005

Is it just me, or is http://w3.org/ no longer redirecting to http;//www.w3.org/ ? I swear it did last time I tried…

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Mozilla reflow changes

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

Anyone who pays attention to the netscape.public.mozilla.layout newsgroup will know that David Baron is working on a new way of doing reflow in Mozilla. It aims for (to quote him)

  • simplification of code
  • fixing incremental reflow (“{inc}”) bugs
  • allowing better integration of nsIBox and nsIFrame layout
  • allowing easier implementation of new features like ‘inline-block’

It’s nowhere near done (“nowhere near compiling” in his words), but this will be nice to have!

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Bug 282793

Friday, February 18th, 2005

Can someone who knows about http headers look at bug 282793? What justdave says makes sense, but I’d just like another opinion. :-)

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netcenter.netscape.com doesn’t allow browsers without javascript

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

http://netcenter.netscape.com/ doesn’t allow people without javascript to enter. I thought this was a web company, how stupid can they be?

Edit: Anne put this in his hrefs, so I decided to turn javascript on and try again. It popped up a dialog asked me to upgrade to the latest version of my browser (Firefox 1.0, which the latest release) at which point I promptly went and downloaded the latest nightly, and revisited with it—only to recieve the same message. What do they expect, bleeding-edge CVS? Anyway, it also had no flash of any sort, the only reference at all being that Netscape 7.2 includes flash 7 (oooh, aaah). So I’m wondering exactly what Anne means, though in much more of a curious way than a confused one. I’ve never seen such bad web design before from a company that was built around the web.

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Can’t post in sub-sub-categories?

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Now that’s annoying… for some reason, WordPress doesn’t show the checkbox to post in sub-sub-categories, even in the edit area. I made a new “computers” category for my non-web computer posts and wanted to make web a subcategory of it, but when I did I couldn’t post in any of web’s subcategories. Oh, well.

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Looking for a javascript image loading test

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

A while back I found a page online that tested browsers’ speeds by using a little piece of javascript to repaint an image several hundred times. (Not reload it over the wire, just repaint) Now I can’t find it, even after searching on several occasions. Has anyone else seen this/knows where it is?

For the record, I don’t remember who was fastest among Gecko/KHTML/Opera, but I watched it in Internet Explorer and gaped at how slow it was—on the order of 10 times as slow, IIRC

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