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 [...]
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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 [...]
It is a pretty well known fact that using javascript to add decimals 0.1 with 0.2 does not result in 0.3. [1] Try it yourself with the FireBug console. For the uninitiated, the problem stems from javascript’s internal representation of numbers. They are actually binary numbers that are usually exact, but sometimes for example, are [...]
Merry Christmas. Here’s a little javascript brewsession present. http://ror.deanandadie.net/table.html I was thinking about the ingredients table Greg designed. While it is good looking and we’ll definitely use it, I would rather see a very simple list to start with and give the option to have an “advanced view”. It occurred to me to let the [...]
