Oddblogwherein Iain Lamb and Ethan Diamond prattle on incessantly about all things Oddpost(Untitled)- September 29, 2003 Our last push exhumed an IE 5.0 crashing bug which, for reasons we can discuss when we get home, did not reveal itself on our 5.0 test machine. Yet thanks to the bold asceticism displayed by the 4.62% of Oddpost subscribers who resisted the temptation to upgrade to IE 5.5 when it was released in July 2000 and fought what must surely have been an even greater urge to install IE 6.0 when it was released in October 2001, we were alerted to our shameful error and promptly corrected it.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/09/29.html#a74 (Untitled)- September 23, 2003 Hurry! You must consume more feeds! Others are consuming your feed, and you're consuming their feed, and you must keep up, lest you be the 3,427th lame-o to note that it's Talk Like a Pirate Day, and not the ultra-hip 781st! It is clearly our duty to facilitate this nonsense, so avast, up there in the File menu, OPML subscription import!http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/09/23.html#a73 (Untitled)- September 23, 2003 Is there a clever, i.e., not stupid, way to explain that we fixed the bug where text in the Views Bar would disappear when you switched folders Doesn't seem like it.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/09/23.html#a72 (Untitled)- September 23, 2003 Ah, sweet mystery of life! A 10 or 15 line plaintext email from Monster.com weighs in at over 80K and takes minutes for Oddpost to load. Why Because it's formatted using several thousand whitespace characters, of course. Nope, no newfangled carriage returns there! Just the sort of thing that can choke a regular expression, until said regexp is tweaked a bit. A Spring shower cools the seething horde. (Oh, it's September You're neat.)http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/09/23.html#a71 (Untitled)- September 23, 2003 You're putting the finishing touches on an email as lengthy as it is brilliant when the shakes make an inopportune return, thrusting your cursor diagonally upwards until it comes to rest directly over the Close box, right at the exact moment your life partner decides to give your hand a reassuring squeeze. Or maybe you were just typing quickly and accidentally hit the Escape key. In either case, we now ask you whether you really want to close the window and lose all your work. We programmers...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/09/23.html#a70 (Untitled)- September 23, 2003 Nothing makes a programmer want to run to the vessel's prow and scream "I'm king of the nerds!" like fixing a memory leak. In this case, a bug in IE was steadily bloating Oddpost's memory usage over the course of a day's use. Rob had nothing to do with this bug, but he is a Leo, so we shoved him overboard.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/09/23.html#a69 (Untitled)- September 23, 2003 We made the brave decision that changing your password should never, ever lock you out of Oddpost, and made it so.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/09/23.html#a68 (Untitled)- September 23, 2003 OK, leaks, pirates, lifeboats...the nautical theme is not intentional, yet here we are, telling you that links in emails to ANCHORS within that same email now work, meaning that the links in all those great newsletters you subscribe to jump straight to the right spot in the message. It's the little things.http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2003/09/23.html#a66 |