Follow-up on the JavaScript font rendering effort:
fzort informed me that the glyph rendering was bogotified on Internet Explorer:
After more than half a day of hacking, I finally managed to stop IE from rendering the extra stuff below each glyph, and work around IE's PNG transparency bug... and in the process I also learnt about the clip: rect(...) CSS property. :)
Here's the result.
MarkAtwood: Who exactly wrote that, and where exactly did he write that? I hope it's not another of those "let's attribute this fake quote to some famous luminary" things.
Today I discovered <boost/iostreams/filter/bzip2.hpp>.
Well, after fiddling around with fzort's font-packing code for a few days, I came up with this. Some sort of poor man's dynamic browser font, I guess.
Jimbo the pimp, Essjay the quack professor, SlimVirgin the sexy super-spy, and now SWATJester the undercover terrorism expert (or some such)... I think we have enough material for an action movie. Or a comedy series.
I slapped together a silly text game. It probably can't be counted as open source, but the code that was used to garble the JavaScript can be.
In other words, I just whipped up Yet Another VT100 Emulator for JavaScript (now showing Rybolt's "Shamus the Fish"). Pretty useless as it stands... but it's buzzword-compliant!
Run GNU/Linux? Be a real man and write your own OS. :)
(OK, I read that the Cassiopeia E-11 has 8Mb of memory... probably already more than enough to run Linux. Running GNU/Linux is another matter though.)
wlach totally boggles my mind. So is he saying that the oil companies are raising prices because they, out of the goodness of their hearts, suddenly decide they want to make people moderate their oil consumption in order to save the earth's climate?
berend is normally a raving wingnut, but he's right on the money when he says,
The drive-by media previously reported that one of the definitions of a geek was someone who couldn't get a girlfriend. Now a geek is someone with a stripper as girlfriend:
Preliminary results from the research show so-called computer geeks are becoming the new schoolyard bullies.
In related news, Jacqueline Passey says she's a geek because she watches cheesy TV shows. Geek geek geek!
Edit:
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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