Author Archives: SignpostMarv

Reducing support for Internet Explorer (versions below 8)

UPDATE Okay, so perhaps I was a little bit harsh on Trident- the CSS 2.1 portions of the new design for sw.slr work flawlessly in IE8, so with Dean Edwards’ Javascript libraries, the CSS3 portions should work sufficiently as well. So I’ve decided to rephrase my position as “reducing” support for IE- it is still [...]

Feature Requests

I’m experimenting with using Google Moderator to handle feature requests. Head over there, vote on a suggestion, or make a new one yourself!

Is your password secure ? Probably not secure enough!

Okay, this topic rears its head again. Your Second Life password cannot be longer than 16 characters. several of the examples Jeska provides are invalid because of this arbitrary limit. There is no good reason for passwords being limited to 16 characters. OpenID logins for Second Life are trivial to implement..

Auto-discovery of OpenSim Simulator Creations

Update: After poking around the Microformats Wiki, I’ve altered my proposal slightly to use the enclosure value. Timeless Prototype With the recent increase in OpenSim usage, the natural progression will be for people to offer entire simulator creations for download. What we now need is a searchable tag to easily find such downloadable simulators. I’m [...]

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content: A Usability Problem

If the client is a user agent, it SHOULD NOT change its document view from that which caused the request to be sent. This response is primarily intended to allow input for actions to take place without causing a change to the user agent’s active document view, although any new or updated metainformation SHOULD be [...]

PHP5 LLSD Parser example

I recently committed my LLSD parser to the public SVN server, after someone posted on the RegAPI mailing list asking for a LLSD parser that worked under PHP5.First the example script, then a step by step explanation of the output. 01< ?php02header(’Content-Type:text/plain’); # makes it easier to read the output03define(’UHU_DEBUG_MODE’,true); # enables extended error reporting04define(’UHU_ERROR_AS_EXCEPTION’,true); [...]

pure CSS3 tree navigation

Here’s a little something I put together earlier- tree/branch style navigation, powered entirely by CSS3 selectors, using valid XHTML 1.1 Strict code. It seems to work in every browser, though IE7 doesn’t seem to support the coolest feature- the ability to have the page keep branches open while you navigate through branches higher up the [...]

Userscript to circumvent lack of Content-Type header setting support

After finding that the new HTTP In support in LSL didn’t allow the Content-Type header to be set, I developed a Userscript for Greasemonkey to circumvent the issue by utilising Firefox’s support for data URIs. Install Userscript.

Images of Agni

Once again, I’ve updated the composite and distribution guide maps.

rediscovery

I’m discovering that I liked the works of Neil Gaiman when I was younger, and didn’t know it. Here’s a quote from a comic I took out from the library once: John Constantine, issue 2 of “The Books of Magic” You know, when I was a kid, I thought America was a magic land. It’s [...]

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