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Planet Mozilla Blog: Planet Addition: Dan Witte

Posted 1 day ago by raccettura

Dan Witte (feed) - Dan joins Mozilla after finishing a Ph.D at Stanford University. He works on static analysis for the browser platform, and is based in the Mountain View office.

QMO Events: Testday: Fennec 1.0 Beta

Posted 1 day ago by aakashd

Join the MozQA Community in testing Fennec 1.0 beta!
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Fennec is getting very close to releasing a 1.0 version and we need your help to make sure it works as good as ... [More] Firefox.
This test day is used to browse the web with Fennec and give feedback. We have a test plan outlining some browsing suggestions and guidelines of what to look for: Fennec WebCompatibility If you've never heard of Fennec, information on it can be found here.
 
Otherwise, we hope to see you there!
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Here's some of the things we're planning on doing throughout the day:
 

Test Fennec by browsing various websites that you do on a daily basis
Use the brand new interface and give feedback on what works and how usable it is
Learn about ways to help out in future releases
Tell the Fennec team what you think about your experience.
For any bugs filed at this testday, add "[fennectestday]" to the bug's whiteboard. If you're unsure what that means, ask a moderator in the channel. [Less]

Jeff Walden: Quote of the day

Posted 1 day ago by Jeff

It’s Independence Day, so what better topic to discuss than the juridical matters of the United States? (Frankly, there are more substantive topics to address, to be sure — as a palliative I direct your attention [yet again!] to the Federalist ... [More] Papers for one such topic — but a dash of humor with underlying substance is never out of order.) Here follows a brief anecdote I ran across recently:

In Gilchrist v. O’Keefe, 260 F.3d 87 (2001), Sotomayor wrote for the panel, which rejected an inmate’s claim that he was unconstitutionally deprived of his right to counsel during his state sentencing proceeding when the trial judge declined to appoint a new attorney to replace the attorney who withdrew after the inmate punched him in the head.

See the original source, as well as the decision itself.

It is worth highlighting that the fact that the deprivation occurred during “state sentencing” is critical to the opinion, as 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) (the relevant clause in US code) prevents granting relief in response to a state proceeding, assuming the decision was not “contrary to clearly established Federal law” (which, the decision notes, it was not). As a consequence the decision need not (and does not) reach any question along the most obvious line suggested by the quote, at least not outside of dicta (with which, tangentially, I am not particularly inclined to disagree) — an example of how legal decisions need not be as obvious as they seem, and an example of how common sense may play little to no part in the legal reasoning of a “common-sense ruling”. [Less]

Firebug Blog: 1.4: you have to manually reload the first time

Posted 2 days ago by johnjbarton

Based on newsgroup postings, users did not get the news that Firebug 1.4 requires a manual reload the first time you open it on a site. Ok, no I don’t know how they would know. So here it is:

In 1.4, when you open Firebug on a page it does ... [More] not automatically reload the page. You have to do it manually.

In 1.3, the page was reloaded for you. We made this change because some users (ok it was Steve , complained that the reload was not always necessary and sometimes wastes time. This is especially true for users who are primarily interested in HTML and CSS or for users who want to know just when the reload is triggered so they can watch how the page loads.

But why do we need to reload at all? Well to track net traffic, to track script loading, and to listen for console logging we have to add listeners on the page before the page load begins.   If Firebug is not active at the time of page load, none of this happens. So after you open Firebug you have to reload to get all the info. That was true in 1.3 and it still true in 1.4. The only change here is that 1.4 you have to do it manually.

By now my brain automatically hits reload when I open Firebug, since I always want all the info on all the panels

jjb

Please post follows to the newsgroup. [Less]

Michael Erlewine: Presenting in Boston at SIGIR Workshop

Posted 2 days ago by mitcho

I have been accepted to present a short paper entitled “Ubiquity: Designing a Multilingual Natural Language Interface” at the ACM SIGIR Workshop on Information Access in a Multilingual World in Boston on July 23rd. I’ll probably be there in ... [More] Boston a few days before or after as well in order to find an apartment for the fall. If anyone is in Boston at that time and would like to meet up, or if you’re near Cambridge and looking for an apartment-mate, please let me know.

If you would like to see a preprint of the paper, please contact me at x@x.com where x=mitcho.

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