Stupid updates

This is the Youtube thing I was talking about. It is not the related-videos postroll that they've been doing for years, and which at least three people seem to think I was referring to.

Regarding the Fahrenheit article: one of the weenies kept reverting my changes and making comments like "Bradbury wrote the book; he knows what it's about". My crankiness about this is quelled by the fact that one of the people whose text I first changed has taken my side in the talk page, and did a reasonable job striking a happy medium in the article.

If I cared more I'd go find references to Bradbury's earlier, conflicting comments and add them to the article's head, which currently implies that he's always held the interpretation he does now. But generally when I find myself getting angry with a non-core project like this it's time to walk away.

Book callback

Is it one of y'all who has my old copy of "Mastering Algorithms with Perl"?

I swear this happens every time

It's been a week since I've had a chance to look at my MSIE XML problems. I can't recall what I found on Google last time, so I look again, and...



Quite. (Also I'm currently the number 2 hit for [msie fuck].)

I am taking jaq's advice and looking at Sarissa now.

HTML Testbench works in MSIE now

Finally. Sarissa did indeed ease my XML suffering; thanks for the pointer, jaq! Lots of other hangups to overcome, but nothing that stumped me. Much was learned.

Here's the same boring old Tic Tac Toe demo which works in MSIE (and, afaik, everywhere else) now, and here's a zipfile of version 0.2. Everything's up to date in Subversion.

Now that that's done I will stop seeming to obsess over this one example and start making some more interesting prototypes. Much of this suffering was done over JavaScript library code, so it should all carry into the future nicely.