Archive for November, 2009
Well after much fussing about with porting a bug fix that was intended for Firefox in dealing with multi-touch scrolling issues into Thunderbird, I resolved the process and now have 3 finger swipe scrolling. In the end, the final fix was removing a shortcut of “Ci” that was used in Firefox code to represent “Components.interfaces”. […]
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Detecting a Pane in Thunderbird!
From failure, to opportunity, to failure, to a success that will hopefully lead to another success… but inevitably, the cycle will continue! What is all this referring to? My work on implementing multi-touch controls on Thunderbird. It’s a bug in the Mozilla community and its a major project for my Open Source Development course. […]
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Back to the Javascript, Part 2
Ok, so this is a followup blog to a previous one where I made some fun at the Javascript language. Criticizing it as a toy and possibly in my own mind, being critical for its cryptic looking nature. And thus, I was attacked by my instructor for my comments, I was thrown to the ground, […]
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Ok, so I’m trying something a little different here… a video of the results of my work . My efforts here were to create an extension in lieu of modifying the source code in Firefox. Previously in our class, we had to modify tabbing behaviour of Firefox in source code. This time, we had to […]
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Reversing Added Tabs on Firefox
Today in my Open Source Development Course at Seneca College, we were given a lab to do. It was related to opening a link into a new tab. The current behaviour for Firefox 3.5 is to open the new tab at the end of your list of tabs. The task for this lab, is to […]
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An interesting week I’ve just had, everything from Mennonite farms and their quilt auctions to an Open Source gathering and related workshops and a CIPS gathering held by the Toronto CIPS group and workshop on a very specific topic – Networking Strategies for Career Development. How do they all relate? It’s simple actually. Toronto Community […]
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