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July 28, 2007
helper application testing sought
On Wednesday, we landed the new protocol handling dialog in preparation for exposing web-based protocol handlers. Unfortunately, we didn't do a good enough job testing before the landing; so there were a number of unanticipated regressions, for which I'd like to apologize. We'll do better next time around.
Fortunately, thanks to heroic efforts by a bunch of folks including biesi, bz, ctalbert, dolske, gavin, karlt, and sdwilsh, we think we've got the most critical regressions fixed.
However, we'd like to be sure that we're shipping from a known state and that our fixes haven't introduced new issues. So for folks who are interested in lending a hand with testing, it'd be great if you could play around with content that is handed off to helper applications (both MIME-types and protocols) and let us know what you find using bugzilla.
Note that what we're mostly interested in hearing about at this point are functional regressions; we know that there is lots of visual work left to do on the new protocol-handling dialog. The builds to look at are Saturday night / Sunday morning nightlies.
For reference:
* List and status of known functional regressions
* Dependency tree of fixed and unfixed related bugs
Thanks in advance.
Posted by dmose at 6:17 PM
July 21, 2007
Interesting thoughts on capitalism and market economics
Vote for me, dimwit is an interesting piece from The Economist about voters' behavior. It caught my eye in part because it mentions Oregon's self-service gas law, which is indeed pretty silly. There is indeed a bunch of wisdom in this article; but there are also some really bad misuses of logic and generalizations.
More interesting fodder about how Burning Man participants (and other progressives) feel about corporations is discussed in Generation Dobler:
Burning Man is trying to do this year for its audience what FLOW tries to do - recast corporations and their products as not villains and despoilers, but as providers of tools and methods to solve problems.This sentence is particularly interesting, because it suggests that there's some sort of dichotomy involved here, rather than that different corporations behave in different ways, and it's possible (easy, even) for a corporation to be all of the above things at once.
It's interesting how messy the real world is; do most thoughtful articles that are floating around have serious problems like this? I'm gonna have to keep an eye out...
Posted by dmose at 4:51 PM | Comments (3)