ALWAYS remember. Whereas Firefox accepts gladly both “{a: 33,}” and “{class: ‘hidden’}”, Explorer only agrees on “{a: 33}” (notice missing semicolon) and “{’class’: ‘hidden’}”. Someone likely to dig on ECMAScript syntax definition and see whereas is Firefox too lax, or Explorer too tight?

Posted by mattia as explorer, firefox, javascript at 9:37 AM CEST

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Well, I download the whole mootools library in compressed form, which is about 42kbytes of text all in a simple line (a big, big, big “eval”). I put into my Zope instance and go editing the object… pity for Firefox: it’s almost impossible, since loading such a big line in a textfield gives considerable problems to the browser, up to blocking it on my old notebook.

So, what to do?

Would you believe that the old, textual “links” program just loaded the whole thing without complaining the little?

Posted by mattia as firefox, zope at 11:55 PM CET

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Really, you shouldn’t mix the two things. I discovered today that, with firebug activated, writing to a document opened this way just produced big problems with inclusions of javascripts and CSS (just three out of 20+ was really included).

Did I already say “sigh, open source!”?

Posted by mattia as ajax, firebug, firefox, javascript at 4:06 PM CEST

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At last I’ve got my brand new MacBook. Double boot with MacOSX, thanks to the very good Ubuntu MacBook guide; partitioning and installation did take about 2 hours. But then, I’ve still some problems, many of which are surely limitations of mine:

• Ubuntu CD Boot did ignore my keystrokes until it did get in graphical mode. This meant I couldn’t apply the lpj hack at first. Luckily, it seems that the problem was not relevant to my mac (I applied it anyway afterwards, adding the “lpj=8000000″ the the commented “kopt” line on /boot/grub/menu.lst). Then, for the two or three reboot afterwards, keystrokes were still ignored, but then started to work again. I honestly ignore what did I do, but I activated all the repositories to get more recent software and updated, so…
• Can make compiz work on the gnome interface, but I wanted a Kubuntu. Kubuntu integration is, in fact, quite worse than standard gnome interface (not a big surprise, all in all).
• MadWifi drivers did make the card work, but I had to explicitely set the mode of operation as “shared”, and not “open”, by adding a line to the related /etc/network/interfaces entry:
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid XXXXXXXX
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXX
pre-up iwpriv ath0 authmode 2

• for some times Firefox never worked at first start (did not read keystrokes, nor open any home page); always had to close it and restart. Now it works fine - again, I’m using KDE and a more updated version of packages, so perhaps this is the reason.

Posted by mattia as compiz, firefox, kde, kubuntu, macbook, madwifi, ubuntu at 7:14 PM CEST

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