04 Jan 2006
This is a rather bizarre problem affecting Firefox 1.0.x on Mac OS X and Windows, but not Linux. Even IE escapes unscathed (well, as unscathed as it ever does when using PNG graphics. That is to say, relatively fine when using filter: properties).
Load up this post in Firefox 1.0.x (not on Linux) and note the difference between the two graphics above. There is a 1-pixel yellow horizontal line along the bottom of the first image (generated by Photoshop). The second image — near identical — should not bear any such mark.
The 1-pixel transparency (yellow is a background colour set using CSS) is not in the source file in Photoshop, and does not display in any other browser, including Firefox 1.5/Flock. The GIMP version was made by opening the graphic, smudging an all-white area (i.e. white-to-white, so it recognised the file had changed but was visually identical), and re-saving.
On a hunch that Photoshop was a horrible, horrible monster. I was right!
So, my question to the world: did I do something wrong in Photoshop? Has anyone seen this behaviour before? What’s going on?!
*goes slowly insane*
04 Jan 2006
04 Jan 2006
I don’t know why. Shrug.
02 Jan 2006
I had to setup a virtual host that proxied through to another server today, and found the Apache 2.0 documentation on that matter particularly unhelpful for a rather trivial reason.
Here’s their broken version:
<VirtualHost *:*>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://192.168.111.2
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.111.2/
ServerName hostname.example.com
</VirtualHost>
Here’s my working version:
<VirtualHost *:*>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass / http://192.168.111.2/
ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.111.2/
ServerName hostname.example.com
</VirtualHost>
Spot the difference.
Yes, it was as simple as an omitted trailing slash.
Only takes a minute or two to figure out what’s going wrong, but it’s pretty darn annoying for that minute: I assume, as would many people, that documentation is generally infallible — its purpose being the cure to various software ailments, not the cause! Ah well. I’d have edited the Apache documentation, but it’s not a wiki and I can’t be bothered joining whatever mailing list I’d have to join to get one character added to their site!
01 Jan 2006
Good fun. They’ve only been in the house (which doesn’t have a domain yet! I suggest TEDonMarian.net) for two weeks, but already have… err… the most important stuff sorted.
The rack, I’m assured, is coming. ;-)
Oh, no, there is a domain. http://lttd.net/ is it.