Monthly Archives: March 2007

It’s All Text! v0.6+

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I wrote It’s All Text! for myself. When 2.0 was released it broke 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 some parts were just a pain to maintain.

The author of MozEx got it working with FireFox 2.0 eventually. But I had this itch because I saw things I can improve.

Now it’s three months later and I’ve released version 0.6.1 now that Addons is back. This will be my release candidate for 1.0 because I have fixed the four most annoying problems:

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Containing blocks and offsetParent: the secret of position absolute

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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 page that has a textarea, I kept having problems. It was driving me batty. I found something that worked on my simplistic test cases, but it wouldn’t work on gmail. I got it to work on , but it stopped working on installations, or . Or if I got it to work on one of those, it’d fail to work on my simplistic test cases.

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Scott Adams Bullshit

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The Selfish Gene
Read this book!

For those unfamiliar with and his comic strip, , 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 by .

Scott Adams, it turns out, is pretty darn smart. He reads stuff. He thinks about stuff. However, it doesn’t mean he isn’t wrong. He wrote a rant “Fossils are bullshit” on his where he reads a Newsweek article on msnbc and then declares that his bullshit detector thinks evolution and the fossil record is bullshit.

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Cleaning up parts of the blog…

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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, and I moved my feeds over to feedburner.

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