Includes better removal of google gunk when the preview is on. All gunk is fully restored when the preview is toggled off. :>
I turned on mod_deflate, but I clobbered SSI, breaking boxcarkid.com.
Config files that still need tweaking:
/home/m/config/apache2/machine_globals.conf
/home/m/config/apache2/virtualhosts/boxcarkid.confAlso upgraded my StartCom certificate, pretty easy! Thanks guys!
I found out today that Mozilla doesn’t serve up the latest version of “experimental” addons automatically to Firefox users. And until I can get them to get around to approving my addon, mine remains marked “experimental”. So you have to grab updates from the official download page. Get the latest news on the homepage.
I’ve always been extremely irritated by the simplicity of google’s search results. They require a lot more manual work to navigate than I can tolerate, browsing forward and backward, spawning a new tab to save interesting result, clicking between tabs, etc. Way too much clicking and jumping and tabbing and loss of context!
My lack of tolerance fuels my attempts to engineer workarounds. There’s no way you can live without google’s results any more, so the workarounds have centered on re-engineering the results page. The old perl scraper that I’ve used for the past 4-5 years has required an update every six months or so, but I’ve kept with it until the recent past (it no longer works). This weekend, I hammered out a better way (please insert trumpet blare):
The Google Results Walker Firefox addonI’ve posted it to the Mozilla Addons site (aka AMO), and I’m learning the hoops through which you have to jump to get “published” there. Looks like I’ll need lots of good reviews. If you want to help me out, sign in to the Mozilla addons site and post a review at the public page. NOTE that you have to actually provide a relevant full-sentence comment with the review, or, according to the Addon Reviewing Guide, it will just be deleted! Geesh!
There is a huge backlog of requests for new addons to be published. In the end, I may have to sign up to be an addon editor to get the job done. :>
It’s still a little rough and there’s a lot more I want to do with it. Check the wiki page for the current todo list.
What a horrible trial-and-error life web designers lead! After too much hair-pulling, this site now looks as it should on IE7. Issues:
- IE7 does not like div tags between li tags – so I reworked everything to oblige
- IE7 requires some hacking with padding and margin to get my rounded corners css to work
I hope I never have to touch it again (but I will).
This site now has pretty valid CSS and XHTML, and resizes pretty well too. Try it out with Ctrl+ to increase text size, Ctrl- to decrease. Change the resolution. Stretch it, pull it, bend it – better than Stretch Armstrong! (sorry, no green goo though…)
