RasterWeb!A quickie on traffic stats, it seems that for April 2003 we served up the RSS feed for this site three times more than we served up the home page, and the RSS feed accounted for over 25% of the page requests. Oh, and NetNewsWire was by far the most popular aggregator. (Way to go Brent!)
Today an intern wanted to ask me some questions. He was working on a page that was giving him some problems, and as I looked at the source, and asked him some questions, he said he was authoring the page in XHTML Strict. I commended him, and asked about the debate of whether or not the Content-type should be text/html , application/xml, or some other variant, and while he wasn’t up on the subject, it just warms my heart to see the kids embracing the standards…
My friends, there is hope for the future…
Just a warning, the RAD or ‘Radar Avoidance Device’ that I employ here was temporarily offline, and in the event I happen to appear on any sort of radar device, just ignore it…
Unless you don’t want to ignore it, in which case you could fully embrace it.
Either way…
I recently solved a CSS problem that was causing me to repeatedly pound my head against the desk, and honestly the desk has already sustained quite a bit of damage from previous head banging incidents.
I was surprised to learn that I got completely different behavior between Internet Explorer 5.00.2920.0000 on Windows 2000 and
Internet Explorer 5.00.2919.6307 on Windows 98. Ok, I wasn’t exactly surprised, more like annoyed by the CSS bugs in MSIE. I don’t know if it had anything to do with the differences between Windows 2000 and Windows 98, or was fully the result of the 0.00.0001.3693 revision. Perhaps they fixed a single bug and release a new version.
Anyway, the next time MSIE 5.xx.xxxx.xxxx is giving you CSS problems, curse a bit, bang your head against the desk, and then try rearranging the elements in your CSS file… And if that doesn’t work, just repeat the process until it does.
(Of course it’s always a good time to switch to a Gecko-based browser like Mozilla…)
In Mac OS X there exists a command named pbcopy which according to my notes, copies standard input to the GUI‘s copy buffer, or pasteboard for the technical among you. Which, in english, means you can pipe stuff into pbcopy, and then use the old ‘Command-V’ to paste it where you like.
So in the Terminal you type:
uname -a | pbcopy
and back in your standard Mac OS X application you you can paste the result, which in this case is:
Darwin MacOSX.local. 6.5 Darwin Kernel Version 6.5: Mon Apr 7 17:05:38 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.32.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
Of course you can find more interesting things to pipe into pbcopy I’m sure, here’s some ideas:
Oh, there’s also pbpaste, basically the reverse of pbcopy, for when you want some command line pasting action that comes from the GUI’s pasteboard…