Sigh. Let's try that again.
This
example works in Netscape7, and ought to work in newer versions of Mozilla (unless someone has changed the <tree> syntax again).
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Block all images then. And help someone implement the feature properly.
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I posted the comment in the bug after yanking the feature; admittedly, the comment was probably a bit inappropriate.
Nevertheless, this illustrates just how easy it is to get a poorly designed, marginal feature into Mozilla, and then in short order be able to enforce "squatter's rights" to keep it there. (With wild conspiracy theoretic claims, nonetheless!)
The "feature" -- and I use the term loosely -- threw up a dialog for each image on the page before loading it. It was implemented without understanding how the layout engine worked, and caused us to crash on all but the most trivial pages.
For those who continue to thirst for this capability, note that the hooks to implement this feature well remain in Mozilla. And there is plenty of room on mozdev.org for a mixin that would take advantage of the hooks (hopefully, in a more useful way than spamming the poor user with hundreds of dialogs on each page load).
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Sigh. Let's try that again. This example works in Netscape7, and ought to work in newer versions of Mozilla (unless someone has changed the <tree> syntax again).
This example should work.
Block all images then. And help someone implement the feature properly.
I posted the comment in the bug after yanking the feature; admittedly, the comment was probably a bit inappropriate.
Nevertheless, this illustrates just how easy it is to get a poorly designed, marginal feature into Mozilla, and then in short order be able to enforce "squatter's rights" to keep it there. (With wild conspiracy theoretic claims, nonetheless!)
The "feature" -- and I use the term loosely -- threw up a dialog for each image on the page before loading it. It was implemented without understanding how the layout engine worked, and caused us to crash on all but the most trivial pages.
For those who continue to thirst for this capability, note that the hooks to implement this feature well remain in Mozilla. And there is plenty of room on mozdev.org for a mixin that would take advantage of the hooks (hopefully, in a more useful way than spamming the poor user with hundreds of dialogs on each page load).