Tag: Firefox
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Why choice in software matters … a story from the real world
Ten years ago today something happened that has had a significant impact on many millions of people across the world … Mozilla 1.0 was released. Above all else Mozilla, and it’s leaner, fitter, offspring, Mozilla Firefox, is the most important piece of free (as in freedom) software ever produced. For sure, it stood on the […]
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Using XSLT to manipulate an SVG file
I am generating a lot of the graphics for my project using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – an XML format. The advantages of SVG are obvious – it is human readable, it preserves some of the data in the output (eg in the relative placing of the dots on a graph), Groovy has good support […]
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Time to ditch Firefox?
Just about every internet user, even if they have never used Firefox, owes the Mozilla Foundation an enormous amount for the creation of Firefox. It’s injection of competition back into the mass browser market stimulated a new drive towards standards and speed that has made a huge difference to all users: Internet Explorer 6 came […]
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530 lines of Javascript
I have just written that amount of code in what I persist in thinking of as a toy language (it was actually somewhat longer until I refactored the code to group some common functions together), I had to do this for a coursework exercise – a lot of effort to be honest for what is […]
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Dealing with 0x80600001 errors
Maybe you have just seen a message like this: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80600001 [nsIXSLTProcessor.importStylesheet]” nsresult: “0x80600001 (<unknown>)” location: “JS frame :: file:///home/adrian/webtech/cia.html :: fulltable :: line 47” data: no] If you have then chances are you are working on some XSL/XSLT (the above comes from a piece of coursework I […]
cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly 