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Things Adrienne & Dean Do, Think and Write

Browsing Posts published in May, 2010

Nobody likes boring code Mozilla products like Thunderbird and Firefox represent setting choices in a textual “tree” system. (Read the intro.)  Preferences that begin with print. live on the tree branch dealing with printing while those that begin with app.update. are on the auto-update system’s branch.  An easy concept to grasp. In practice, however, the [...]

Security Conscious Javascript Normally, javascript does not have access to local files.  Rightfully so because almost every web server should be untrusted and allowing anybody to read your files is a large security risk.  Mission Control Desktop, however is a javascript application with access to XPCOM, Mozilla’s component object model. This article is an example [...]