I recently tried to compile Daniel Holbert’s SMIL patches in mozilla-central. While doing this, I observed the “configure” was core dumping. The folks in the #developers channel over on irc.mozilla.org were able to help me out and trace it down to the fact that Ubuntu’s dash was crashing. I worked around this by changing Mozilla’s configure script to use #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh.
Apparently this crash has been fixed on Ubuntu 8.10 because Daniel himself hasn’t witnessed this crash?
Hallvord R.M. Steen (an Opera employee and member of the HTML WG) was kind enough to create a bug regarding an issue I had raised a few months back. It is currently not possible inside an embedded SVG to determine the parameters sent in from HTML:object if the two documents are on different domains. This appears to be a hole in the HTML4 spec, which doesn’t really address cross-domain security concerns for the HTML:object element. Click To Read More...
While I was posting posting my own fail story, a bunch of Twitter residents decided to start riffing on the phrase ‘EPIC FAIL’ (maybe as a result of this article?). I’m not sure who started it, but I thought I’d paste in the relevant tweets from the people I follow:
I just checked for a friend on train ticket prices from the Detroit Area to Chicago. $70 each way, $140 round trip. That does not compute. If he were to drive, I’m going to estimate it would cost $80 in gas - and he’d have the convenience of having a car once he’s here. The airlines give me $160 with taxes and fees included, at a quarter of the trip time.
I love taking the train, but in this case it seems that it just doesn’t make economical sense. Especially for more than one person. I wonder why…
Thank you. Note to self: Next time I need to build Boost, this is what I should do while experimenting:
bjam --build-dir=c:/boost-build/ --toolset=msvc-8.0 --build-type=complete
That builds all combinations of release/debug and dynamic/static libraries. Cost: Roughly 2 GB disk space.
Anyone have any idea why I’m suddenly seeing a large number of hits using a browser with the following UA string:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Only happened in the last few days too. Weird.
Looks like WordPress 2.6 is out. I submitted three patches about three months ago: 6583, 6602 and 6642. I’d like to sturdy up WordPress’s ability to handle invalid XHTML markup. Care to take a whack at my XHTML Piñata? This all sounds vaguely familiar.
Anyway does anyone have any suggestions on how to get these patches moving? Someone I need to email? kthxbai