Category: Software and Programming

A site that’s practically CSS hacks central, for hiding your CSS from the right combination of browsers.

Small fix to my little feed script, the RSS loading and formatting thingie. Because PHP version 4.2 defaults its register_globals configuration parameter to “off”, I need to actually get the script’s parameters from the HTTP_GET_VARS array.

Well, thanks to this bug and lousy documentation, I know now I’ve had at least 2 users….

I spent some time yesterday reporting a Bug on Mozilla, preparing a funky test-case and everything.

Turns out it’s a duplicate of a previous bug Eyal Rozenberg already reported.

In fact, because I know he’s also a roleplayer/SF buff, I bet he saw it in the same place as I did (later update: no, apparently his own site has the same problem).

Pretty cool how fast it was handled, though.

Scott Andrew has a nice article about XML Transformations with CSS and DOM. I’ve already added a stylesheet to one of my RSS files, but Andrew is much better at writing CSS (and handling font choice, margins, etc.) than I am.

My RSS file looks odd with Andrew’s sample stylesheet (because of all the unstyled bells and whistles of the RSS2 template I got off Mark Pilgrim), but I wonder if I can set it as an alternate style sheet, as per the W3C spec.

Testing… Nope, doesn’t work. In Mozilla, which has a menu option for switching alternate style sheets, it doesn’t show up, and in IE, it picks up the 2nd style sheet (the alternate) and uses it.

Blake Ross wants to Give the power to the users:

I showed these screenshots to some colleagues of mine in the industry, and while the reception was generally warm, a few said that leak-free garbage collection was too hard for some users. I find this extremely difficult to believe, but, if necessary, we could introduce a user-friendly assistant much like Microsoft Office’s clippy. I propose Reggie the Memory Register to aid in spotting and fixing leaks.

ROTFLOL!