Archive for the ‘ notes ’ Category
Sometime a few days ago Akismet intercepted the 1000th piece of blog spam before it could touch my site. I installed it about four months ago. There’s currently 169 comments in the 15 day cue. Seems to be high tide—it fluctuates down to around 60 or so. Still no false positives. I’ve had to moderate [ READ MORE ]
Just wanted to take a second to pimp Kayak.com. I had been making the rounds through the travel search usual suspects (Priceline.com, Orbitz, etc.). Orbitz (and cheaptickets.com which seems to be the exact same search engine) puts the brakes on my ancient computer with it’s huge, complex page layouts and floating options panel. So it [ READ MORE ]
It took two years almost to the day, but the small patch i submitted to make the Go button look like the other Firefox toolbarbuttons was checked in a few days ago[ READ MORE ]
It turns out that the new Options window was being held up by one line. I had the new preferences.css file in browser/preferences, but the window would be drawn transparent with only the section button/tabs at the top and the OK/Cancel dialog buttons on the bottom. It needed the prefwindow XUL element added to the [ READ MORE ]
The network error pages are naked, as they derive their styles from global/netError.css, which i haven’t set up yet. This brings up a usability sticking point because if i style the page in LCD fashion, it won’t look like the standard error and may confuse people. On the other hand, i like to be complete, [ READ MORE ]
