« Ben Hammersley »:http://www.benhammersley.com/about.html is the only geek I know who ran the « marathon des sables »:http://www.benhammersley.com/expeditions/marathon_des_sables.html.
Archives de catégorie : Internet
Textism
Textile
A Humane Web Text Generator
Fead up with always having to refer to an old cheatcard, I post the cheatcodes !
What Textile Does:
- Replace single and double primes (' and ") used as quotation marks with HTML entities for opening and closing quotation marks ( » and « ») in readable text, while leaving untouched the primes required within HTML tags.
- Replace double hyphens (–) with an em-dash (-) entity.
- Replace single hyphens surrounded by spaces with an en-dash (-) entity.
- Replace triplets of periods (…) with an ellipsis (…) entity.
- Convert many nonstandard characters (úßπ) to browser-safe entities corresponding to keyboard input.
- Apply block- and phrase-level structural tags automatically and at the discretion of the writer via quick tags.
Quick block modifiers:
Header: hn.
Blockquote: bq.
Footnote: fnn.
Numeric list: #
Bulleted list: *Quick phrase modifiers:
_emphasis_
*strong*
??citation??
-deleted text-
+inserted text+
^superscript^
~subscript~
%span%To align blocks:
< right > left
= center
<> justifyTo reference a footnote:
[n] - Allow the quick creation of simple and complex tables
To insert a table:
|a|table|row|
|a|table|row| - Allow the simple application of style, class, id, language and alignment attributes to elements
(class)
(#id)
{style}
[language] - Create hyperlinks and insert images via quick tags
To insert a link:
« linktext »:urlTo insert an image:
!imageurl!. - Define acronyms via quick tags
ABC(Always Be Closing)
- Wrap an tag around runs of three or more capital letters automatically.
- Convert (TM), (R), and (C) to ™, (r), and (c).
- Convert the letter x to a dimension sign: 2×4 to 2×4 and 8 x 10 to 8×10.
Hack n’ Mac
Introducing the *IE5/Mac-only-CSS-hack* invented by nonetheless than M. Çelik himself, « explained »:http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/ by « Doug Bowman »:http://www.stopdesign.com/, who wrote the « story of the hack »:http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/07/06/filtering-css.html.
[Stop grumbling, I know: official name is _IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter_]
Firefox extensions removal
Had trouble today installing a fresh « Firefox 0.9 » version.
My last problem was triying to remove « pnh toolbar »:, wich did not show in the extension.
« Piro »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/entrance/_profile.html (the creator of TabBrowser Extensions, a.k.a. « TBE »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en#download) has a very good « Mozilla extensions uninstall help page »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/doc/installation.html.en#uninstall (written forTBE, but works for all extensions), wich shows what I found myself, and more… Check also his « TBE FAQ »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_FAQ.html.en#tabextensions & « forum »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/forum/forum.cgi.
CSS discuss
« CSS-discuss »:http://www.css-discuss.org/ is a very good standards web design mailing list. Its « wiki »:http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ is a repository for many links, including the « hack page »:http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHack I keep looking for.
Introducing Best Practice
« Our site doesn’t validate » is a turn-off. « Let’s follow industry best practice » is far more appealing. (« Simon Willinson »:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/06/09/backporting, « sick of Web Standards »:http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives/sick_of_web_standards.php)
Web Design Hacks
* « Phil Ringnalda »:http://philringnalda.com/blog/2004/06/like_a_weblog_but_completely_different.php on « BugMeNot »:http://bugmenot.com/ « a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times) » (« via »:http://simon.incutio.com/blogmarks/2004/06/04/)
* « Lorem Ipsum Generator »:http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator3 (« via »:http://simon.incutio.com/blogmarks/2004/06/02/)
* « Edit This Page PHP »:http://editthispagephp.sourceforge.net/home/index.php (« via »:http://simon.incutio.com/blogmarks/2004/06/03/)
Replace TBE
« TabBrowserExtensions »:http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en is a big (some say huge bloated) Firefox « extension »:http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/. It is currently understood that it has « some compatibility problems »:http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Firefox_:_Tips_:_Tabs, especially when upgrading different plugins and/or Firefox. See « here »:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=47192&sid=6f8145dac3b9a69d7abe6551da85d3d0 for replacement by a list of smaller plugins.
« Rebuilding TBE »:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=47192&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=0&sid=6d7174d21ed37239fc8065b02056c5f8 suggested the combination :
« TBP »:http://www.intraplanar.net/projects/tabprefs/ + « Session saver »:http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#sessionsaver + « MiniT »:http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/minit + « Tab X »:http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/clav/ + « Blanklast »:http://v2studio.com/k/moz/ + « FLST (Focus Last Selected Tab) »:http://gorgias.de/mfe/ + « Undo Close Tab »:http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#undoclosetab
and gave the following advice:
* to open tabs to the right of the current tab, instead of the end of the tab bar, when using miniT: open chrome/minit.jar/content/minit.xul (in your profile; .jar is like .zip) and replace
t.ordinal = position;
with
t.ordinal = position = this.mCurrentTab.ordinal-0+1;
* to remove the close tab button from your tab bar, put this in your userchrome.css file:
#content .tabs-closebutton {
display: none !important;
}
* to place your tab bar at the bottom of the screen in the userchrome.css
/* Display the Tabbar at the bottom */
#content > tabbox {-moz-box-direction: reverse;}
And complained : So far, the killer features of TBE not implimented are:
# Duplicate Tab in new Tab/Window (« Clone Window »:http://www.texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#clonewindow is close, but lacks a few features);
# Tabbar/Tab Click/Doubleclick Modifier
RSS Feed Parser
« Aggreg8 »:http://www.aggreg8.net/ or « RSS Reader Panel »:http://fls.moo.jp/moz/rssreader.html? Read:
* « what Phil Ringnalda says »:http://philringnalda.com/blog/2003/06/lightweight_mozilla_rss_reader.php
* « A Frenchman’s opinion »:http://www.framasoft.net/article2295.html * « Google »:http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=RSS+Reader+Panel+Aggreg8&btnG=Search
Reading Anne
* Read in the comments of « Power To The People: Relative Font Sizes »:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/relafont/ an article @ « ALA#176 »:http://www.alistapart.com/issues/176/ the following (by « Anne Van Kesteren »:http://annevankesteren.nl/): « IE goes into quirk mode if _anything_ is before the DOCTYPE It is some kind of myth that IE only goes into quirks mode when a XML Prolog or PI is used before the DOCTYPE. Using a comment can already do that. »
[« x »:http://www.alistapart.com/discuss/relafont/, scroll down for datestamp 9 April 2004 @ 11:10am]
* The « W3C »:http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-grddl-20040413/ released « GRDLL »:http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-grddl-20040413/, a rewrite of « An RDF-in-XHTML Proposal »:http://www.w3.org/2003/11/rdf-in-xhtml-proposal, by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux & alii. GRDLL stands for « Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages ». As « Anne rightly points out »:http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/04/w3c-has-naming-issues : « W3C has naming issues ». Aside from that, let it be known that they are on the right path (in the light of _0.91-2.0-Atom_ issues).
* Ian Hickson, posted « embedding flash without