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Sorry if you came in from QueerFilter.com
If you came to my site, either now or previously, via QueerFilter, you were obviously expecting some GLBT content. The problem is, I'm neither of those, nor does this weblog have related content. So why the heck am I on QueerFilter?
Well, erm, the reason, you see, is a little dumb (and I'm a little dumbass). There was a period when I was looking for feed aggregators and weblog directories to add my weblog to, and when I came across QueerFilter, I added redemption in a blog summarily without checking out what QueerFilter was really all about. Duh! Apologies if I wasted your time.
Thanks to Richard Evans Lee's blog entry on QueerFilter, I found out my mistake. I sent an email to the QueerFilter owner/webmaster to remove my feed. Let's see if this entry appears up there now shall we?
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There is no native RSS reader panel in Firebird 0.8 - phew!
I just read Matt Haughey's blog entry on RSS native parsing in the next Firebird.
I was checking out the nightly builds of Firebird 0.8 betas (windows and linux, mac) and they've got an rss button and panel that parses RSS, with titles linking to the main window.
Gasp! The first thing I thought was how could I have missed something like this? When rationality took over, I began to feel pretty sure that Matt Haughey had made an honest mistake - there is not going to be a native RSS reader panel in Firebird 0.8 (or any future releases for that matter).
I did some Googling and satisfied myself with some answers. Firstly, there is no mention of a RSS reader in the Firebird Roadmap - even the phrase RSS didn't turn up. Secondly, there exists a Firebird extension, RSS Reader Panel, which looks very similar to Matt's screenshot. Thirdly, I trusted myself to know if there was something like this coming up in my beloved Mozilla Firebird.
Thankfully enough. An RSS reader sidepanel included by default would be widely protested by many (including yours truly) I would surmise. Bloat is one thing, having something like that in a web browser that promises to trim off the fat surely goes against it's standing principles.
Update: I forgot to add the reason why Matt Haughey could be experiencing this. It is entirely possible that he had previously installed the RSS Reader panel extension into his Firebird profile and summarily forgotten about such a fact. And yeah I wanted to contact him about it, but comments aren't allowed and I can't find an email address anywhere. If anyone knows how I can contact him please let me know ASAP.
Update 2: Nevermind I found his email address.
Update 3: I got through to Matt and he has made amendments to his blog entry. Yay!
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XHTML/CSS/JS Scrabble
SScrabble (Solitaire Scrabble) was created using purely XHTML, CSS and some clever JavaScript. Really neat stuff (although DHTML Lemmings had much more oomph in terms of pure wow factor - too bad it had to be taken down due to copyright issues).
The Man in Blue speaks on his experience coding this SScrable thing up in this weblog entry.
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IE file download extension spoofing hole
InfoWorld reports on the new Internet Explorer security hole that allows file download extensions to be spoofed. The hole allows the site author to make it appear that a downloaded file is safe by spoofing it's extension, when in fact it could be anything, including malicious executables.
Security company Secunia has a demo of this security hole over at their Internet Explorer File Download Extension Spoofing Test.
The author of the InfoWorld article goes so far as to say:
The possibilities are endless, and since both spoof issues appear to be unfixable, it must surely place a big question mark over Explorer’s viability as a browser.
The other aforementioned spoof issue is, of course, the URL spoofing vulnerability. Some good news on this front though, with Neowin.net reporting that Microsoft will fix this with an IE update to remove support for usernames in http urls.
Can't say the damage hasn't been done. Has it got your average non-technical Joe/Jane looking for alternative browsers? Maybe grandma is starting to ask for "a better Internet"? No one knows for sure, but I'm sure if this is publicized further in the mass media, there'll be some very pleased converts.
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Firebird 0.8 on the horizon
Mozilla Firebird 0.8 is almost ready to be shipped, thanks to Jesse Ruderman for pointing out that small detail in the latest mozilla.org staff minutes. Expect it Friday (today!) or Monday.
Jesse Ruderman has listed the new features and major bugfixes over at this entry in his blog.
Nothing much there you won't be unfamiliar with if you've been using nighty builds like me.
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