20111010 C:\fakepath\

The things one finds while reading the specs: For historical reasons, the value IDL attribute prefixes the filename with the string “C:\fakepath\”. Some legacy user agents actually included the full path (which was a security vulnerability). As a result of this, obtaining the filename from the value IDL attribute in a backwards-compatible way is non-trivial. [...]

20110819 Line spacing inconsistencies when pasting to Firefox from gedit

I was adding some productions to escena.org when I noticed something strange about the way the info section of the latest productions was looking. I was slightly distracted by the excitement of watching all those intros and demos that I hadn’t heard before about, so it took me a while to notice what it was [...]

20100909 Misclinklanea

Mozilla Labs Gaming looks interesting – specially the fact that they don’t seem to be focusing on desktop platforms only (see the reference to touch events). Having good references is always a good thing. I’m not sure about the horse power of current mobile platforms for running browser applications, though… And what’s with the pixelated, [...]

20100612 Using jQuery’s inline Datepicker within a form

When you use the inline version of jQuery UI’s Datepicker within a form, it doesn’t submit its value back to the server, since there’s no form element in it. And that’s a pity, because I find the inline mode way more comfortable for users: rather than having to click a button in order to open [...]

20100603 Firefox 64 bit (Ubuntu)

I wanted to test the latest Firefox but for the love of whoever you want, I wasn’t able to find a 64bit build in Mozilla’s site. I could choose between lots of languages, but I couldn’t choose between 32 and 64 bits– their detection system insisted in providing the 32 bits builds. Bad, bad UI [...]