I spent the past week hacking dir=uba support into Gecko. Here are the problems I have hit:
HTML and CSS incompatibility
HTML will have the dir=uba attribute inherited to child elements but there is no matching CSS direction:uba. The idea is that the direction will be calculated from the content and then set in the CSS. So [...]
Posted under BiDi, Hacking, Mozilla, W3C by Adil 22.06.2010
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The MDC instructions for debugging mozilla in XCode are fine but as soon as you try to build Mozilla from XCode, you hit a few obstacles.
Add a new Target of type External Target. For the settings:
Note the PATH - needs to point to the MacPorts directory.
Now it will build OK but debugging will fail with [...]
Posted under Hacking, Mozilla by Adil 17.06.2010
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Last month I reported bug 547654 in Thunderbird where scrolling caused display problems. First a QA engineer passed it to the right group, then the programmer of the affected code asked me to repeat the issue. Now the bug has grown to a full scale blocker and actually assigned to me! I have written a [...]
Posted under Hacking, Mozilla, Technology by Adil 28.03.2010
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