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23 Mar 2000 »

I've been continuing work on the embedding widget. It's starting to come together. The code that actually loads that looks like this:

    moz_embed = gtk_moz_embed_new();
    gtk_moz_embed_load_url(moz_embed, "http://localhost");

Minus the usual packing into a container and showing the widget and stuff. You still can't click on links but that's not a problem with my embedding widget.

By the way, you can do <pre> on advogato with this:

Or, if you're really nice you can leave out the font-family: fixed ( like I did above ) since it doesn't fit with the motif here.

22 Mar 2000 »

I've been working on the new embedding widget for Mozilla. After it's done it should be really easy to embed Mozilla into any gtk application. Alex did the original widget but it's been suffering from some bitrot and it uses old, depreciated interfaces.

Yesterday I went out and got 100 feet of ethernet cable so that I can hack from other rooms of the house. Looking back, I think it was a bad idea since now I can't escape.

The mozilla.org party is right around the corner. It's in San Fransisco. You going to be there? Let me know.

20 Mar 2000 »

I think that I made Phil go blind with by exposing him to a couple of patches. Anyone who knows gtk should be afraid.

18 Mar 2000 »

I've been working on a couple of bugs over the last couple of days. I sat down and rewrote the gdk event filter for mozilla since it was broken and causing some problems with grabbed windows. It now has copious comments so that some other poor soul can come along and support it. I've got some other code to check in, too but someone broke windows so I can't check in.

My wife and I finally got a couch at Ikea which should arrive at the house tomorrow. This means that we can have other people over and they don't have to lie on the floor to watch a movie.

16 Mar 2000 »

I now know the meaning of the word Fear. What the hell?

14 Mar 2000 »

I'm still digesting food from last night. We had good indian food on the new dinner table, courtesy of my wife. We managed to squeeze eight people around it. I was impressed.

Here's a great little column about patents and what they mean for the internet and business and your favorite search engine. It's funny, too. Read it.

11 Mar 2000 »

I've been in Syracuse the last couple of days, visiting with friends and family. I've been using the chance to try and catch up on all the email lists that I'm on and haven't been reading.

1300 Messages in the xfree folder.
200 Messages in bugtraq.
500 Messages in SOAP.
20 folders later...

Great, now I'm behind on my Inbox.

8 Mar 2000 »

LinuxPower ran my interview today. Then slashdot picked up on it and the site was unavailable for a while. It's a reasonable interview. The questions were well clued.

There was at one question at the bottom of the article that someone posted:

More and more pages can be read only if you have Internet Explorer, Netscape won't read them, because the page uses proprietary Microsoft technology. Will Mozilla read these pages?

The people building Mozilla are attempting to build a 100% standards complaint browser. If you build pages that are standards complaint then Mozilla should be able to read them. I don't think that there are any plans to add compatibility for those technologies. I think that it only encourages people to use them and that's what we want to get away from.

I'm pretty sure we would accept those compatibility layers if people felt like writing them, though.

6 Mar 2000 »

I should have had the pork. And I'm vegetarian.

The night started out innocently enough. Zab, Jennifer, Shaver and I wanted to see a movie. We wanted something without substance. Without a plot. Without and purpose whatsoever. Something that was strictly for entertainment value. Brain candy. What we found was something far, far more sinister.

Reindeer Games.

Don't go see it. You don't get that two hours of your life back.

3 Mar 2000 »

Read a lot of email today. Didn't get a lot of coding done but spent time trying to get a really nasty bug fixed.

Dave has been making a lot of noise about the amazon patent and probably has more links to other pages that cover the topic than anywhere else that I've seen. The only problem with Dave's site is, well, Dave. He's kind of self-rightous but he makes me laugh a lot of the time and the site usually has interesting links on it. It's the first place where I saw the Wu-Name site mentioned.

Hi, I'm the Sweaty Butcher. These are some of my friends:

...and so forth.

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