The day started off badly.
I took my daughter, on Saturday, along to the Mozilla Festival to give her an idea of some of the stuff I work with. Only to get stopped at the entrance to the building because the college hosting the event had a strict ‘no children’ policy. And despite the best efforts [...]
PDF.js is a new project from Mozilla to render PDFs using pure Javascript and HTML. So I thought to put it through its paces - what would happen if I gave it a PDF of one of Diwan’s most complex Arabic fonts to render. This usually stretches Adobe’s own Acrobat. Here is the result (click [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
