Fun Scripting Safari

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Safari Response: scripting.com

Safari Response: scripting.com 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

Dav e Winer writes about a problem Safari has with Chris Lydon's weblog. This particular bug has been the subject of discussion on other sites as well.

The bug in question was really caused by poor CSS, and, although Safari certainly should have handled this poor CSS in a better fashion, I felt compelled to blog about this in more detail so that Web designers can avoid this coding error in the future.

What causes Safari to get confused is that float:left is specified on a td. This is a rather nonsensical thing to do, and the browser really has two choices regarding how it can handle this scenario.

Choice One, the WinIE way, is to just drop the float property completely and treat the td like a table cell. This results in the rendering that Chris Lydon clearly expects.

Choice Two, the Mozilla way (and definitely the correct way according to the spec), is to honor the float property, which means the td is no longer a table cell but a float, and so the float gets wrapped in an anonymous table cell that encloses it. The specified width is no longer used to participate in table layout, and so that's why Mozilla "misrenders" the links on the right-hand-side of Lydon's weblog.

On to Safari. Safari was trying to give Web designers the best of both worlds. In Safari, I implemented a quirk that was supposed to give you the WinIE behavior in quirks mode, but give you the Mozilla behavior in strict mode. Chris Lydon's weblog (based off the transitional doctype) is in quirks mode.

The problem is that I didn't get the floating bit cleared in all of the places that checked for it, so the table cell ended up being quasi-floating, and thus event handling got broken on the cell.

Anyway, the quirk has been improved so that Lydon's blog will render as WinIE does in quirks mode, and if he decides to ever shift to strict mode it will render like Mozilla does.

In the mean time, the float:left should clearly be removed so that Mozilla can start rendering the site as the designer expected as well.

Scripting Java with the Bean Scripting
Framework

Scripting Java with the Bean Scripting
Framework 04/06/2005 02:25 AM
ZDNet Apr 6 2005 6:33AM GMT

Safari Magic 1.0 adds numerous tools to
Safari

Safari Magic 1.0 adds numerous tools to
Safari 07/20/2004 02:43 AM
Stephen Becker has announced the release of Safari Magic 1.0, a utility which adds several tools to Safari...

Scripting Mac OS X

Scripting Mac OS X 11/10/2003 11:20 PM
James Reynolds put together this hands-on tutorial to help you master scripting Mac OS X, complete with a helpful appendix of sample scripts (on page 3). This is one you'll want to have handy for reference.

VB Scripting

VB Scripting 05/09/2004 05:15 PM

Not Scripting News

Not Scripting News 02/15/2003 06:36 PM
When's the last time that the content on Scripting News had anything to do wtih scripting? Yeah, once in a while you'll read about XML-RPC or something related, but that's maybe 10% of the time. Is it a case of...

Client scripting with .NET

Client scripting with .NET 12/17/2002 02:32 AM
CNET Dec 17 2002 1:36AM ET

Scripting News

Scripting News 03/13/2003 04:49 PM
makes his move to Cambridge .. drive cross-country .. Dave Winer .. 3 days .. in Kansas .. surfaces

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Scripting in .NET is bullshit?

Scripting in .NET is bullshit? 01/06/2004 06:54 AM
So what is the problem? Where is the procedural .NET!?! Where is the scripter's version of .NET!?! My colleagues are giving up on Microsoft after years of effort to consolidate on the MS platform. They do not want to be G. Andrew Duthie or Jesse Liberty. They want to create a few HTML pages with forms and write some procedural script on a server to process the data.

What I am starting to find are a number of PHP, Perl, and MySQL books appearing on the shelves of my coworkers. And they are not looking at Win2K or Win2003 as the platform or IIS as the server.

And please let's not waste time with the argument 'But you can basically script in .NET.' BS is all I can say to such a statement. -- Danny Boyd

Also see Richard Tallent's response.

Two thoughts about scripting

Two thoughts about scripting 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
Two things that may or may not go together, except that they showed up on my radar at the same time: • Susan pointed me towards Brendan Eich writing about JavaScript 1, 2, and in between. I've been hearing about...

Scripting the Unscriptable in Mac OS X

Scripting the Unscriptable in Mac OS X 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
At some point, someone at Apple put two and two together, as follows. "On the one hand, we've got the Accessibility API, which lets any program access the interface elements of any other program. On the other hand, we've got AppleScript, which lets any user write a script to give commands to any scriptable program. So what would happen if we put them together?

Scripting Word

Scripting Word 06/25/2004 05:18 PM
Rick Schaut: "My more recent tasks have involved working with both the Word testers and the automated testing group to iron out some ways that we can improve on testing. In particular, now that Word has a more complete AppleScript implementation than previous versions, we can move from automated testing based on VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to automated testing based on AppleScript."

EOS scripting language

EOS scripting language 05/31/2004 10:05 AM
EOSscript 1.10 beta released!

Scripting by the Bay, Redux

Scripting by the Bay, Redux 04/11/2005 08:22 PM
Matt Neuburg (~100 words)

Scripting by the Bay, Redux -- For those who need to acquire or hone AppleScript skills, Shane Stanley and Ray Robertson will once again be leading their wonderfully intensive AppleScript Pro sessions, 02-May-05 through 06-May-05, in beautiful Monterey, California. I'm slated once again to teach my famous "forced march through AppleScript Studio" class. One source of real excitement is the question of whether Tiger will have shipped in time; if it does, we'll be able to talk about the new features, such as BLEEEP and BOOOP (sorry, censored by the NDA police). [MAN]

TCL eggdrop scripting

TCL eggdrop scripting 12/27/2004 12:51 AM
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Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit

Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit 06/09/2004 12:43 PM

Scripting Abroad

Scripting Abroad 09/08/2004 07:44 PM

Dave keeps his wheels rolling across America although his treads needs replacing.  I envy him because I never done what he is doing right now.  Farthest I have gone on wunderlust by car was a couple of states.  I wonder if programming on the road is productive for him.

I just can't focus when I am not in a familar surrounding.  Maybe a monster RV like Tog will do the trick.  I'll need a broadband connection via satellite, of course, and my wife will need GPS coordinates of malls.Until my son leaves for college, seven years from now, I'll be looking at RV catalogs whenever I feel the wunderlust.

Scripting a New Alert

Scripting a New Alert 09/10/2004 05:28 AM

Scripting SMS: An Introduction

Scripting SMS: An Introduction 02/19/2004 05:59 AM

Python Scripting For .NET

Python Scripting For .NET 03/19/2003 10:41 PM

Brian Lloyd: I've finally been able to post an initial (experimental) version of Python Scripting for .NET [via Sean McGrath]

First impressions: this looks like the first step towards where PerlNET has ended up: two VMs, two garbage collected heaps, but on the bright side, every existing Python application runs without change or without any performance degradation.

"Scripting News"

"Scripting News" 02/17/2004 08:53 AM

Scripting with dmidecode

Scripting with dmidecode 12/24/2004 01:11 PM
The recent Newsforge article about dmidecode got me thinking: what other practical applications are there for dmidecode? As that article points out, there isn't a lot of software out there that makes real use of the dmidecode data. Let's see if we can change that.

Simple csh scripting

Simple csh scripting 08/09/2004 05:42 AM
CNET Aug 9 2004 10:09AM GMT

Scripting News: 12/16/2003

Scripting News: 12/16/2003 12/17/2003 03:46 PM

Scripting News: 5/17/2004

Scripting News: 5/17/2004 05/17/2004 07:32 PM
the Frontier kernel is going to be open sourced .. Scripting News: 5/17/2004 .. As Good A Time As Any

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Scripting GNU in the 21st Century

Scripting GNU in the 21st Century 05/27/2004 06:26 AM
Scripting in the GNU environment and parsing HTML in bash.

Iadstools.dll Functions for Scripting

Iadstools.dll Functions for Scripting 07/08/2004 07:16 PM

Environment, scripting, and behavior

Environment, scripting, and behavior 03/21/2003 10:17 AM

Jython, as we've seen, succeeds by the extraordinary measure of rewriting the Python interpreter in Java. In the .Net world, early efforts to make Perl and Python into first-class .Net languages ran aground. Both projects have now retreated to a dual-run-time strategy. Scripts can produce and consume .Net interfaces but rely on their own virtual machines, not the CLR.

Is there a better solution for these environments? The designers of Parrot [6], the Perl 6 virtual machine, think not and have struck out on their own. "Why not compile to JVM/.Net?" the Parrot FAQ asks itself. And it answers: "Those VMs are designed for statically typed languages." That's true, sadly. It's a question of priorities, and support for dynamic languages isn't high on the list for Java or .Net. If I could make one change to both of these environments, that would be it. [Full story at Inf oWorld.com]

Mark Dulcey wrote to point out that the Parrot VM is not intended to support Perl only, but any dynamic language. Yes, I should have made that clearer. It would be best, in my view, if the JVM and CLR could serve this purpose. My gut tells me the obstacles are cultural, not technical. ...

Scripting SMS: Making a Connection

Scripting SMS: Making a Connection 07/19/2004 06:47 PM

Scripting News: 3/30/2005

Scripting News: 3/30/2005 03/31/2005 06:59 AM
abuse of someone else's content .. Scripting News: 3/30/2005 .. da un ejemplo .. Test cases

archive.scripting.com/2005/03/30#testCases
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Scripting News: 6/25/2004

Scripting News: 6/25/2004 06/26/2004 10:55 AM
Dave Winer announces that he is leaving the RSS Advisory Board .. Scripting News

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Cross Site Scripting in VP-ASP

Cross Site Scripting in VP-ASP 12/05/2003 01:53 PM
Xnuxer Research Laboratory (Dec 05 2003)

SMS 2003 Scripting Guide

SMS 2003 Scripting Guide 04/13/2005 08:56 AM

Scripting News: 5/14/2004

Scripting News: 5/14/2004 05/15/2004 02:52 AM
Dave Winer .. accuses

archive.scripting.com/2004/05/14#playingRealGoodForFree
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Very Cool: A Link from Scripting

Very Cool: A Link from Scripting 03/16/2003 12:25 PM

Very Cool: A Link from Scripting

Wow.  Dave linked to Feedster.  Thank You!  And now The Werblog.  Very cool.  This just pointed out an interesting use of Feedster -- researching the postings that you want to link back to.  I guess that's kind of obvious but we're all so used to the "Go to blog => Copy Permalink => Go to Blogging Tool => Add Link to Post" and then repeat for the next link you want to make that it hadn't even occurred to me.

Note 1: I'm still fighting with that Mac Internet Explorer CSS issue.  Any CSS experts out there have any thoughts?  And if this helps, its based on the Plone theme from Zope if you know about Mac problems there.  Email or IM any thoughts.

Note 2: I'm not saying that the Plone theme has problems necessarily.  I made so changes and I could well have made the mistake.  Andrew Limi did just beautiful work on this and I really appreciate it.

System Scripting Runtime

System Scripting Runtime 05/11/2004 09:28 AM

Scripting News: 1/23/2004

Scripting News: 1/23/2004 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
the story behind Dean's post-Iowa exuberance .. Dave Winer Explains The Dean Yell .. backstory on the Dean Scream .. Don't miss them

archive.scripting.com/2004/01/23#theFamousDeanRant
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Lockergnome Download: WMP Scripting Fix
v1.0

Lockergnome Download: WMP Scripting Fix
v1.0 05/28/2004 01:48 AM
One of the more well known developers of software in the fight against spyware is JavaCool (you no doubt know them from their freeware programs SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard). They've created and made available yet another handy weapon in the defense of your security. This tiny application (just 9.5K to download) allows you to disable* the Win Media Player scripting with the click of a button (*scripting can also be re-enabled at a later date with this same program).

Scripting Addition: SQLiteAddOns 1.0.1

Scripting Addition: SQLiteAddOns 1.0.1 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
SQLiteAddOns is the first AppleScript Scripting Addition to give your AppleScripts the power of an SQL database. SQLiteAddOns also gives every application that supports AppleScript full access to the same powerful SQL database. SQLiteAddOns is built on top of SQLite, an SQL92-compliant, embeddable, stand-alone database library. SQLite database residing locally on a user's computer, and not on a remote server. SQLite's on-the-fly indexing and ACID transactions ensure that databases built with SQLiteAddOns are both fast and free from corruption.
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