15 May, 09
Eine Application Shell ähnlich XULrunner oder AIR, aber auf Chromium basierend: Der Browser kann ja jetzt schon Application Shortcuts. Diese werden allerdings noch in einem Chromium-Fenster dargestellt und teilen sich die Datastores mit anderen Webapps.
Nur ein kleiner Schritt wäre es davon zu einer Flex-ähnlichen Umgebung. Mit Google Gears bzw. den offenen LocalStorage APIs kann man schon sehr viel erreichen, z.B. einen vollwertigen Twitterclient als “Offline”-Gears-App bauen. Erweitert man die APIs um Dateizugriffe u.ä. und baut eine kleine Abstraktionsschicht ein - à la AIR - könnte man bald Anwendungen in HTML + JS schreiben. Die Hürde zur Anwendungsentwicklung würde nochmal ein Stück fallen.
Könnte das mal jemand…?
04 Mar, 07
If you’re using the latest bleeding-edge SVN version of WordPress with Ultimate Tag Warrior, check your feed’s validity. WordPress is finally getting around to implementing Atom 1.0 instead of sticking with the comparatively ancient Atom 0.3 (even the validator’s support is deprecated).
Unfortunately, due to the way WordPress and UTW work, UTW doesn’t have a way to really know what kind of feed is requested — the hook it registers is called the_category_rss, and it’s called with a parameter that’s either ‘rdf’, ‘rss’, and sometimes blank.
Even more unfortunate is that the_category_rss is called when an Atom feed is requested. UTW happily inserts the hardcoded <dc:subject> tags into the feed, and since that’s been superseded by <category> in Atom 1.0, and WordPress doesn’t declare the Dublin Core namespace anymore, your feed has just become invalid. Fix after the jump.
To fix, open ultimate-tag-warrior-actions.php in your UTW directory, search for dc:subject, and change ultimate_add_tags_to_rss like this:
Replace the line inside the foreach that starts with $the_list with:
$the_list .= "\n\t<category term=\"". $category->cat_name . "\" />";
And replace the line starting with $format, after the foreach, with:
$format="<category term=\"%tagdisplay%\" />";
This is gonna break your RSS/RDF feed, but you should’ve switched over to Atom anyway, right?
It’s also pretty hacky to even build an XML document by string concatenation, but that’s not easily fixed. Don’t use characters in your tag names that would invalidate your XML, ok?
15 Dec, 06
Mozillan browsers (SeaMonkey, Firefox, Flock, …) cut off tooltips after 80 chars, including tooltips from HTML TITLE attributes: bug 45375, bug 218223.
After the bug has been open for six and a half years (opened 2000-07-13), it has finally been resolved - on the Seamonkey trunk, which means the change will not make it into the popular browser before version 3.0.
Long Titles (amo, home page) is an extension for Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape that fixes this annoying behaviour. It prevents tooltips from being cut off, and also enables line breaks within TITLE attributes.
Another little step on making Firefox more useful…
04 Sep, 05
Asa Dotzler says Firefox 1.5 is almost ready. I wonder whether it will finally get the handling of soft hyphens (­) right. Bugzilla says it’s not so.
And here I was hoping for a standards-supporting, mature browser. Maybe I’ll switch to Opera after all. They might not be Open Source, but they’re open to user demands, something Firefox development seems to lack at the moment.
(Don’t spam the bug, there’s a link to a mozillazine forum thread in the last comment, use that.)
