Floppymoose's ad blocking CSS is an example of a user style sheet. User style sheets can do much more than hide parts of pages.
The user style sheet I use does the following:
Link styles:
Links to Slashdot are bold and Slashdot-green.
Links to mozilla.org have a 16x16 red-dino logo next to them.
Links to goatse.cx are brown and crossed out.
javascript: links are green.
mailto: links have an envolope icon next to them.
Borders for image links. Solid blue for unvisited links, dashed purple for visited links.
Hide all reset buttons.
Before each named anchor, display the name in the format [#foo], but make it 80% transparent so it doesn't get in the way of the actual text of the page.
I also use the "test styles" bookmarklet to create temporary, site-specific user style sheets. My most common temporary user style sheets hide visited links (useful on sites that serve random image links every time you load them), make all text lowercase (useful for reading all-caps text), and change the color of visited links (useful for sites that use the same color for unvisited links).
Apparently not everyone's browser can read http://freedesktop.com
Not only is freedesktop.com -NOT- the site in the article, but the browser has nothing to do with it.
Mozilla has a feature where it guesses that a www is missing from a user-typed URL when a hostname doesn't resolve. IE, Netscape 4, and Opera 7 for Windows all don't have this feature.
Mozilla also has a bug (159742) where the same guessing triggers if you click "open link in new window" on a link in a web page, which might explain how the incorrect link in the submission got past the editors.
Julia Ecklar - The Phoenix.mp3: a song about an Apollo 1 astronaut resurrected as a spaceship. Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer; Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear?
At what point in development do cells decide which X chromosome to deactivate? Why would this step be skipped in a clone but not in a cat conceived through sex?
Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a.97 probability of the containing email being a spam, whereas "sexy" indicates.99 probability. And Bayes' Rule, equally unambiguous, says that an email containing both words would, in the (unlikely) absence of any other evidence, have a 99.97% chance of being a spam.
This sounds like a good reason not to use a Bayesian filter. A Bayesian filter has no way of knowing how catastrophic it would be if it filtered out a real e-mail containing those words from a cute girl at my college. Unless I had received such an e-mail before, which I have not.
The Mozilla Mail/News client, on the other hand, has not been so successful, in my opinion. For example, the last time I tried to use it, it would do strange things when I tried to insert blank lines between quoted lines in a reply.
Yeah, replying to e-mails using the Mozilla mail client is painful. Not enough to stop me from using it, but enough to get me to swear occasionally. Most of the problems involve working with blockquotes: adding reply lines in the middle of them, merging them, moving text in and out of them. A quick bugzilla search brought up 178899,155609,144998,115498.
Not to mention the headphones... You're specifially NOT supposed to wear headphones in the car because they limit your senses. Because they inject the sound right into your ear, you'll miss out on hearing that fire truck or ambulance and drive right into them whilst they cross the intersection.
I missed the part about headphones in my rush to get first post. In California, it's illegal to wear a headset or earplugs in both ears while driving. (Page 80 of the 2002 CA driver handbook.)
According to an article in Via Magazine, it is legal in Nevada and Utah, or at least it was in 1999 when the article was published.
So it will take a while to get through the menus. Who wants to hear [all the stuff at the top of each Slashdot page] while trying to get the news?
This is a reminder that web accessibility isn't just for letting disabled people use your site. Many of the same techniques are useful for letting non-disabled people use your site through a device other than a computer with a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and graphical web browser.
The problem of identifying the beginning of the main content of a page is not new to this listen-while-driving application. In 1999, Jim Thatcher of IBM Special Needs Systems called it "the most serious impedement to access to commercial web content". At least one version of JAWS, a screen reader popular among blind users, provides the shortcut INS+ENTER for "move to the next block of text which has no links". That JAWS includes such an unreliable heuristic points to the importance of being able to skip blocks of navigation links.
The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines suggest grouping navigation links in a <map> element, and until assistive technologies widely understand <map> as a navigation-link-grouping mechanism, also putting a "skip to main content" link at the top of the page and hiding it from graphical browsers.
Mark Pilgrim recommends trying to put the main content of the page first in the HTML, and describes a "table trick" that allows a navigation sidebar on the left side of a page to come after the main content in the HTML. (If a page uses CSS for layout rather than tables, it should be even easier to put a left sidebar later in the HTML.) For the listen-while-driving application, I imagine that putting the main content first is a more effective technique than the "let users of text browsers skip navigation links" techniques.
By the way, switching to Slashdot's light mode (preview) eliminates some of the junk at the top of Slashdot pages. The faq...hof navigation links are still there, but the OSDN bar, section links, and recent topic links are gone.
I wonder what kind of environmental hazard is posed by junking thousands of pay phones?
Umm, discontinuing to build pay phones decreases the total number of pay phones junked over a sufficiently long period of time, because all pay phones will eventually die.
If you find a site where that happens in Mozilla, please file a bug. Mozilla's policy is that fast redirects should not add an item to session history, where "fast" means something like "under 10 seconds and not in response to user input in the intermediate page". It's already fixed for most cases in Mozilla. One case that was fixed recently was a redirect in an onload handler (bug 124245).
Btw, in most cases, sites did not break the back button intentionally. They were just trying to redirect from one URL to another, and didn't know that Netscape 4 required you to use a specific redirect method in order to avoid leaving an entry in session history.
either way it totally screws up my normal browsing process, since I tend to leave a "main page" where I can get back to it with two or three "back"s, and use Go to shortcut that. Under Phoenix, the Go list ends up filling with misc junk and my "main page" isn't visible anymore.
So instead I'm still using Netscape 4.
Selecting the bottom item from the Go menu is faster than double- or triple-clicking the back button? And faster than right-clicking the back button and selecting the bottom item from that shorter menu? I find both statements hard to believe. (Netscape 4 has a bug where double-clicking the back button only goes back one page, which might explain the first, but not the second.)
Re:from the Lycos FAQ...
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Web Zeitgeist
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· Score: 5, Interesting
What sick and twisted things are people searching for?
Disturbing Search Requests: what blog owners find when looking through referrers in web server logs. These tend to be several-word searches, because single-word searches wouldn't take you to a random blog. Examples: "How to suck breasts", "build a giant robot", "cuntless otters", "worlds greatest asshole".
Google Adwords Keyword Suggestions: type a search term, and it will give common multiple-word searches that include your term. If you type in "porn", the multiple-word searches are child porn, free porn, kiddie porn, chill porn, cartoon porn, porn stars, gay porn, kid porn, lego porn, sex porn, porn nude, moose porn, and lesbian porn.
Metaspy Exposed: random searches on the Metacrawler search engine in real time. Because these are random, you may have to reload several times before you'll see any porn searches.
Ask Jeeves
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Web Zeitgeist
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· Score: 5, Informative
Ask Jeeves also posted year-end search trends, but it picked different information to highlight than either Lycos or Google.
Yearly: frequent searches, news-related searches, health, CEO scandals, music artists, vacation destinations, products and brands.
For each of the top 5 news stories, the year-end page includes several popular questions related to the news. For example:
2. September 11th Memorial
-- How many people died on September 11, 2001?
-- Is 9-11 a holiday?
-- What events are taking place on September 11, 2002?
Weekly: frequent searches, general advancing queries, movies, and news.
Some of the advancing queries are questions ("What is Kwanzaa?") and some are searches ("Saint Nicholas"), but I don't know whether that difference reflects actual differences in the way people search on aj.com for different types of information.
In older versions of windows resource handling was so poor that it seemed common to close apps when you weren't using them - of course this is all fixed now - but here's the rub: with quicklaunch enabled you aren't even conserving resources by closing Mozilla! Also worth noting is that virtual desktops are available as a powertoy for XP... but again the work pattern issue rises - people don't know how to use a modern system effectively.
I close apps I'm not using so they don't clutter up my taskbar.
Slashdot Mirror
IRC: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.
The user style sheet I use does the following:
- Link styles:
- Links to Slashdot are bold and Slashdot-green.
- Links to mozilla.org have a 16x16 red-dino logo next to them.
- Links to goatse.cx are brown and crossed out.
- javascript: links are green.
- mailto: links have an envolope icon next to them.
- Borders for image links. Solid blue for unvisited links, dashed purple for visited links.
- Hide all reset buttons.
- Before each named anchor, display the name in the format [#foo], but make it 80% transparent so it doesn't get in the way of the actual text of the page.
- Ignore the effects of blink and marquee tags
The CSS code for most of these is on http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/.I also use the "test styles" bookmarklet to create temporary, site-specific user style sheets. My most common temporary user style sheets hide visited links (useful on sites that serve random image links every time you load them), make all text lowercase (useful for reading all-caps text), and change the color of visited links (useful for sites that use the same color for unvisited links).
Mozilla also has a bug (159742) where the same guessing triggers if you click "open link in new window" on a link in a web page, which might explain how the incorrect link in the submission got past the editors.
Julia Ecklar - The Phoenix.mp3: a song about an Apollo 1 astronaut resurrected as a spaceship. Once upon a lifetime I died a pioneer; Now I sing within a spaceship's heart. Does anybody hear?
Julia Ecklar - The Phoenix.mp3
Via mpt: metacrap.
Wow. Maybe I should have waited for this instead of getting the Clie PEG-NR70, which takes photos at 320x240 (0.08 megapixel) and lower resolutions.
It's an excuse to put nudity or near-nudity in every episode. Duh.
At what point in development do cells decide which X chromosome to deactivate? Why would this step be skipped in a clone but not in a cat conceived through sex?
Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a .97 probability of the containing email being a spam, whereas "sexy" indicates .99 probability. And Bayes' Rule, equally unambiguous, says that an email containing both words would, in the (unlikely) absence of any other evidence, have a 99.97% chance of being a spam.
This sounds like a good reason not to use a Bayesian filter. A Bayesian filter has no way of knowing how catastrophic it would be if it filtered out a real e-mail containing those words from a cute girl at my college. Unless I had received such an e-mail before, which I have not.
The Mozilla Mail/News client, on the other hand, has not been so successful, in my opinion. For example, the last time I tried to use it, it would do strange things when I tried to insert blank lines between quoted lines in a reply.
Yeah, replying to e-mails using the Mozilla mail client is painful. Not enough to stop me from using it, but enough to get me to swear occasionally. Most of the problems involve working with blockquotes: adding reply lines in the middle of them, merging them, moving text in and out of them. A quick bugzilla search brought up 178899,155609,144998,115498.
My stats are skewed because I get links from Slashdot and Mozilla sites, but what the heck.
7371 hits total
4088 MSIE (includes other browsers spoofed as MSIE)
2179 Gecko
206 Netscape/7
10 Netscape6
605 Phoenix
65 Galeon
55 Chimera
69 Debian
64 Multizilla
158 Opera
2 Opera 5 (spoofed as MSIE)
71 Opera 6
26 Opera 7
17 Opera/5 (not spoofed)
30 Opera/6
21 Oprea/7
15 Konq
146 Googlebot
Not to mention the headphones... You're specifially NOT supposed to wear headphones in the car because they limit your senses. Because they inject the sound right into your ear, you'll miss out on hearing that fire truck or ambulance and drive right into them whilst they cross the intersection.
I missed the part about headphones in my rush to get first post. In California, it's illegal to wear a headset or earplugs in both ears while driving. (Page 80 of the 2002 CA driver handbook.)
According to an article in Via Magazine, it is legal in Nevada and Utah, or at least it was in 1999 when the article was published.
So it will take a while to get through the menus. Who wants to hear [all the stuff at the top of each Slashdot page] while trying to get the news?
This is a reminder that web accessibility isn't just for letting disabled people use your site. Many of the same techniques are useful for letting non-disabled people use your site through a device other than a computer with a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and graphical web browser.
The problem of identifying the beginning of the main content of a page is not new to this listen-while-driving application. In 1999, Jim Thatcher of IBM Special Needs Systems called it "the most serious impedement to access to commercial web content". At least one version of JAWS, a screen reader popular among blind users, provides the shortcut INS+ENTER for "move to the next block of text which has no links". That JAWS includes such an unreliable heuristic points to the importance of being able to skip blocks of navigation links.
The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines suggest grouping navigation links in a <map> element, and until assistive technologies widely understand <map> as a navigation-link-grouping mechanism, also putting a "skip to main content" link at the top of the page and hiding it from graphical browsers.
Mark Pilgrim recommends trying to put the main content of the page first in the HTML, and describes a "table trick" that allows a navigation sidebar on the left side of a page to come after the main content in the HTML. (If a page uses CSS for layout rather than tables, it should be even easier to put a left sidebar later in the HTML.) For the listen-while-driving application, I imagine that putting the main content first is a more effective technique than the "let users of text browsers skip navigation links" techniques.
By the way, switching to Slashdot's light mode (preview) eliminates some of the junk at the top of Slashdot pages. The faq...hof navigation links are still there, but the OSDN bar, section links, and recent topic links are gone.
Another way to distract myself while driving and get myself killed!
This addition is called cuntlits.exe and contains nude buttons and offensive language.
He's probably just trying to increase his download count:
Click here for e-book conversion software with nude buttons!
I wonder what kind of environmental hazard is posed by junking thousands of pay phones?
Umm, discontinuing to build pay phones decreases the total number of pay phones junked over a sufficiently long period of time, because all pay phones will eventually die.
If you find a site where that happens in Mozilla, please file a bug. Mozilla's policy is that fast redirects should not add an item to session history, where "fast" means something like "under 10 seconds and not in response to user input in the intermediate page". It's already fixed for most cases in Mozilla. One case that was fixed recently was a redirect in an onload handler (bug 124245).
Btw, in most cases, sites did not break the back button intentionally. They were just trying to redirect from one URL to another, and didn't know that Netscape 4 required you to use a specific redirect method in order to avoid leaving an entry in session history.
either way it totally screws up my normal browsing process, since I tend to leave a "main page" where I can get back to it with two or three "back"s, and use Go to shortcut that. Under Phoenix, the Go list ends up filling with misc junk and my "main page" isn't visible anymore.
So instead I'm still using Netscape 4.
Selecting the bottom item from the Go menu is faster than double- or triple-clicking the back button? And faster than right-clicking the back button and selecting the bottom item from that shorter menu? I find both statements hard to believe. (Netscape 4 has a bug where double-clicking the back button only goes back one page, which might explain the first, but not the second.)
Btw, you might find the "back to first" bookmarklet on http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/misc.html useful. I think it works in most browsers, including Netscape 4.
What sick and twisted things are people searching for?
Disturbing Search Requests: what blog owners find when looking through referrers in web server logs. These tend to be several-word searches, because single-word searches wouldn't take you to a random blog. Examples: "How to suck breasts", "build a giant robot", "cuntless otters", "worlds greatest asshole".
Google Adwords Keyword Suggestions: type a search term, and it will give common multiple-word searches that include your term. If you type in "porn", the multiple-word searches are child porn, free porn, kiddie porn, chill porn, cartoon porn, porn stars, gay porn, kid porn, lego porn, sex porn, porn nude, moose porn, and lesbian porn.
Keyword City: 10 most popular search words for the Sex & Pornography category. I don't know how reliable this site is. The top 10 are babe, sex, porn, hardcore, nude, xxx, anal, nudist, naked, and boob.
Metaspy Exposed: random searches on the Metacrawler search engine in real time. Because these are random, you may have to reload several times before you'll see any porn searches.
Ask Jeeves also posted year-end search trends, but it picked different information to highlight than either Lycos or Google.
Yearly: frequent searches, news-related searches, health, CEO scandals, music artists, vacation destinations, products and brands.
For each of the top 5 news stories, the year-end page includes several popular questions related to the news. For example:
2. September 11th Memorial
-- How many people died on September 11, 2001?
-- Is 9-11 a holiday?
-- What events are taking place on September 11, 2002?
Weekly: frequent searches, general advancing queries, movies, and news.
Some of the advancing queries are questions ("What is Kwanzaa?") and some are searches ("Saint Nicholas"), but I don't know whether that difference reflects actual differences in the way people search on aj.com for different types of information.
There will be revenue associated with these items.
You mean fees?
If there's one thing I've learned from watching, and tinkering, in this web-log space
You can learn and watch in LOGSPACE? Impressive. I would have guessed you would need at least P to do those things.
In older versions of windows resource handling was so poor that it seemed common to close apps when you weren't using them - of course this is all fixed now - but here's the rub: with quicklaunch enabled you aren't even conserving resources by closing Mozilla! Also worth noting is that virtual desktops are available as a powertoy for XP... but again the work pattern issue rises - people don't know how to use a modern system effectively.
I close apps I'm not using so they don't clutter up my taskbar.
Already reported as bug 108455. Please use the "vote for this bug" link in bug 108455 rather than filing a new bug.