Monthly Archives: March 2007

It’s All Text! v0.6+

Get “It’s All Text!” I wrote It’s All Text! for myself. When Firefox 2.0 was released it broke MozEx so I went looking for a replacement. The others weren’t very good. So I set about fixing MozEx. It was then that I realized that MozEx had way more stuff in it than I needed and [...]
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A bug report from Japan…

Wow! I found a blog post talking about It’s All Text! on a blog called Another 朝顔日記 written in japanese! According to babelfish, the author found a silly bug [english] in It’s All Text! (I left out a var declaration) and is explaining the way to fix this. Neat!
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Containing blocks and offsetParent: the secret of position absolute

Ever used position: absolute in CSS or JavaScript? You probably got it to work reliably. I have in the past. These were pages that I controlled in their entirety and it worked fine. But when I tried to use it with It’s All Text! for the gumdrop edit button which in injected into any web [...]
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Scott Adams Bullshit

Read this book! For those unfamiliar with Scott Adams and his comic strip, Dilbert, this rant won’t be interesting. The only thing you should take away from this is that evolution is not bullshit and that you should read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Scott Adams, it turns out, is pretty darn smart. He [...]
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Cleaning up parts of the blog…

You may have noticed that I’ve been cleaning up parts of my blog. This is because there were some things that really bugged me: My template was too verbose and was too far off default, my colors weren’t and still aren’t ideal, my text formatting was done through a plugin I increasingly came to dislike, [...]
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