Archive for April, 2005

What feeds should Firefox discover?

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Firefox’s autodiscovery code needs a little tightening up, so it doesn’t discover absolutely anything which includes the letters R-S-S in a link title, but it’s hard to decide just how tight it ought to be.

Bad day for WindowsITPro bugs

Friday, April 15th, 2005

I assume it’s just coincidence, but some days it just doesn’t pay to have Mozilla bugs filed about your site: As Gerv noted, someone filed a bug on their fancy-schmancy Flash ad not working in Firefox, so we just get the fallback gif. I suspect the resolution of the bug was right, invalid by reason […]

Don’t be degrading

Monday, April 11th, 2005

If rather than writing your snazzy JavaScript enhanced page/application, and then looking at whether or not it degrades tolerably, you start with basic HTML that works, basically, and then enhance it with unobtrusive JavaScript, you know it should always work as well as it can for anyone’s browser with any capabilities.

I don’t want to share my weblog’s pain

Monday, April 11th, 2005

Attention weblogs: you can email me twice, in case I forgot the first time, but then you need to shut up until you’ve got something new to tell me.

Got bandwidth?

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Can you stop hotlinking of MP3s in embed/bgsound? I can’t see a way, offhand.

Got proxies?

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

SpamLookup: the grown-up, multiple-trigger, multiple-disposition way to deal with spam on your MT weblog. If I ever wind up with a spam problem, I’ll be dropping it in.

The charm wears thin

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Do you got money?

Lickr? I hardly know ‘er!

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Lickr: a user script to deFlash Flickr. Now to figure out why it doesn’t work on my teetering pile of unstable Firefox builds and alpha Greasemonkeys.

Now that’s ironic, part two

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Anil approvingly notes that Tim Bray’s looking forward to having Atom save him from seeing duplicate posts, despite the fact that MT‘s poised to be a major source of duplicates, with its dynamic atom:ids, and it ain’t gonna work anyway. I love syndication, but I don’t much like it most of the time.

Now that’s ironic, part one

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Blogger saves posts in a cookie as you type (a feature bug-workaround I swear Ev first did years ago, when we walked uphill both directions in the snow to post, only to get a NullPointerException, though old Blogger news is virtually unfindable), then pulls the feature because it’s buggy. Some weeks, you can’t win.