One thing always puzzled me when working with CSS style sheets - how do browsers interpret conflicting attributes?
Certainly the order in which attributes appear in the CSS files and the selectors used play an important role - but isn't there anything more to it?
Today I decided to give Emacs another go. I was quite decided to stick with Vim, until I ran into a few XML formatting issues. The XML support is a bit limited and unfortunately it's not the only one on the list. I still think it's a great editor and knowing a few shortcuts always saves the day - and it's also deployed by default on all Unix like machines.
While working with web applications, there are two cases when the ability to browse pragmatically web pages can be very useful: testing and screen scraping. This Perl script provides the ground basis for both - all you need is to insert the specific code for processing a page.
While testing a web application, sometimes it's useful to batch test a number of URLs. Even more, some applications might not be too friendly towards free browsing, thus when testing something like this, it might be a good idea to keep some sort of state on the client (cookies for example).
Today I finally took the time to have a look over GreaseMonkey. What I found odd was the apparent lack of "Hello World" samples or simple tutorials. I read the common pitfalls from the manual and I also skimmed through most of the manual, but I must admit that was a little bit boring.
It took me a lot more time than I initially expected to finish this novel, but I think it's better to read it slowly, over a longer period.
I was a bit reticent of writing about "One Hundred Years of Solitude", as it seemed quite unusual, at least compared to the other books that I've read. First of all, it reminded me of those texts from school, full of symbols and metaphors - and not that much action, where you had to pay attention to some details as they provided important clues for understanding the overall book.
After a break of roughly six months, I came across another excellent book by Pascal Bruckner, "My Little Husband" ("Mon Petit Mari"). It strongly resembles "The Divine Child", especially in style - very funny in some parts, but also quite deep.
Yesterday as I was browsing for a new Firefox theme (I ended up with Rein, I came across a screenshot which showed a very unusual screen from my favourite browser. Looks like there are some hidden "eggs" behind the "about:" URL prefix.
