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  1. Make them give you HTML on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    I belive the magical tool you are looking for is called the LART.

  2. Re:I'd like... on Yahoo! Launches Audio Search Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Query by Humming at CS.NYU works for me some of the time.

  3. Re:BUT on Google Offers Hybrid Satellite and Map View · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For surface streets, how about telling me the name of the street before the turn? At least in the San Francisco area, it's difficult to see the names of streets until you're so close that it's too late to make a turn legally.

  4. Re:Is this why they didn't bother... on Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  5. Whats on my network? on What's On Your Network? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm pretty sure there are no Whats on my network.

  6. Is it just me on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 1

    or does "proactive anti-virus" sound like an oxymoron?

  7. Re:Anti-Virus on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 1

    Can you give me more information about these security holes in Windows Explorer?

  8. Re:Ever go to a frickin' grocery store? on Online Shoppers Naive About Online Prices · · Score: 1

    Online price customization has more in common with grocery coupons than with grocery loyalty cards.

  9. Re:Graphical History, how to start on Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available · · Score: 1

    Extension writers don't have to parse history.dat. They can access History using RDF (example 1, example 2).

  10. Re:Graphical History on Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Extensions on Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available · · Score: 1

    1.0.4 was a minor update. 1.1 will not be.

  12. Re:Javascript Extensions on Mozilla Extending Javascript? · · Score: 1

    E4X is a standard published by the same group that publishes the ECMAscript standard. I don't think the array extras are described by any standard.

  13. More links on Mozilla Extending Javascript? · · Score: 3, Informative

    This entry in Asa Dotzler's blog contains links for downloading this release candidate of Deer Park Alpha 1.1.

    The article has links to New Web Developer Features and New Extension Developer Features. There's also a page listing New Browser Features and an unofficial page listing Notable bug fixes.

  14. Re:Moz Extensions on Mozilla Extending Javascript? · · Score: 1

    This isn't a case of 'embrace and extend'... Any web developer using these for public apps is clearly a butt-head.

    Couldn't you have used the same argument to defend IE's extensions to DOM?

  15. Re:rating system? on Netscape 8.0 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Verisign, truste, paretologic, and maybe more (the page isn't clear).

  16. Re:Why better than bookmarklets? on Hacking the Web with Greasemonkey · · Score: 1

    Greasemonkey user scripts also have access to magical functions, but they're not the same ones Opera user scripts have access to.

  17. Re:This isn't much of an "exploit" on New Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Exploit · · Score: 1

    For a web site to install software, you have to have that option checked and have the site whitelisted and click the "Install" button in a security dialog when the site tries to install software. The option's name is scarier than what the option actually does.

  18. Re:Possible workaround: on New Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Exploit · · Score: 2, Informative

    This exploit has two parts: an XSS hole and a hole that lets xpi-installation-whitelisted sites execute arbitrary code. Your workaround only fixes the second part and leaves you open to an XSS hole, which is sufficient for stealing your saved passwords, cookies, secret pages on your intranet, etc. The real workaround is to disable JavaScript.

  19. Re:Some good and some bad on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    If you don't like live preferences, there's a hidden pref you can toggle to turn them off. I like live preferences, so I turned them on (I'm using Windows).

  20. Re:What I'm curious about on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 5, Interesting

    David Baron, a Mozilla Foundation employee and one of the strongest Gecko hackers, has been spending a lot of his time fixing memory leaks in Gecko and Firefox.

  21. Re:You fund this by buying CDs on RIAA File-Sharing Lawsuits Top 10,000 People Sued · · Score: 1

    And don't get sued, because your settlement will fund their lawsuits too.

  22. Re:Watch for this... on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google occasionally makes search results go through a redirect, so it has statistics about which results users clicked on for maybe 1% of searches.

  23. Re:Know your code on Moving from Binary Drivers to Open Source? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Some examples from Netscape 4:

    /* Get the OVERFLOW attribute. (Fuck yuo, W3C. Fuck you.) */

    /* Words cannot express how much HPUX SUCKS!

    ** This whole hacky pile of poop was done by Michael Toy.

  24. Re:My thoughts on What Can Yahoo Do To Compete with Google? · · Score: 1

    I got a check from AdSense and I haven't made $100 the whole time I've been using it.

  25. Dumb on Is Google Breaking Their Own Rules? · · Score: 1

    * Keyword stuffing may put this page a little higher in search results, but the kind of people who would search for "traffic estimator" are unlikely to click on an obviously keyword-stuffed search result.

    * This undermines Google's reputation as having unbiased search results.