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Starting right now, I'm off for three weeks of summer break. I'm turning on the moderation of comments on this blog to avoid spam.

Don't break the Web while I'm away.

L'édition 2008 de la superbe conférence ParisWeb se tiendra du 13 au 15 novembre. J'y serai, évidemment. Je vous proposerai, si les organisateurs l'acceptent, une présentation des nouveautés en chantier dans CSS ainsi qu'un rapport sur le fonctionnement du CSS WG. Si on me pousse un peu, je mettrai même mes bouts de code dans Diavolo

PS: quelqu'un a déjà réservé la grève des transports pour cette date ?-)

It's now official...

All the styles in my source editor Diavolo are now modifiable by the client. That will allow a UI to specify, modify, delete styles for a given grammar in the source editor. Yay

Je suis épuisé. Il est temps, grand temps que les congés estivaux arrivent...

The v0.4 of my source code editor Diavolo is available from here, as always. I think you'll like this new version:

• line numbering can be hidden
• click on a line number selects the line, and it's possible to extend the selection to other lines
• much better copy/paste, drag and drop with whitespace preservation; still some issues with refresh though
• much harder to freeze
• improvements in the CSS grammar

Et merde... Je suis pour une fois d'accord avec ce salopiaud de Kaczynski et franchement, ça m'en bouche un coin(-coin)...

« Le président polonais a également mis en garde les autres dirigeants de l'Union contre une tentation d'isoler l'Irlande. "Si on brise la règle de l'unanimité une fois, elle n'existera plus jamais. Nous sommes trop faibles pour accepter ce genre de solution", a-t-il indiqué. » -- Le Monde

Kevin is not happy at all... I can understand him. When my main contact at Linspire, Tom Welch, left a supposedly very healthy company, I said "ohoh...". And my emails about nvu or its future started getting no answer. And then many people left - or were laid off. To me, Linspire remains the first customer of Disruptive Innovations, the original sponsor of Nvu. Whatever is the fate of Linspire - and I suspect it's not going to be a very positive one - I remain thankful to that company for that. Linspire made great use of the Mozilla platform : Nvu, extensions to the browser and the mail user agent. So long Linspire, and thanks for the fish.

Update 2-jul-2008: it's now official...

Diavolo is better and better every day. But I had a big issue with copy/paste of whitespace, my source indentations were lost on paste, and I really could not figure out why. After a short investigation, I found why : it's a little uglyness left in nsCopySupport.cpp by our friend and former Editor Team member Kin Blas :

if (atom == nsGkAtoms::body)
{
  // check for moz prewrap style on body.  If it's there we are 
  // in a plaintext editor.  This is pretty cheezy but I haven't 
  // found a good way to tell if we are in a plaintext editor.
  nsCOMPtr<nsIDOMElement> bodyElem = do_QueryInterface(selContent);
  nsAutoString wsVal;
  rv = bodyElem->GetAttribute(NS_LITERAL_STRING("style"), wsVal);
  if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv) && (kNotFound != wsVal.Find(NS_LITERAL_STRING("pre-wrap"))))
  {
    *aIsPlainTextContext = PR_TRUE;
    break;
  }
}

Urrrgh, to say the least I have filed bug 442686 for that and attached a first patch. In the meantime, make sure to add style="white-space: pre-wrap" on the body of your edited documents if you're using a plaintext editor in Mozilla and need white-space preservation during copy/paste...

- l'appart de Ségolène Royal a encore été cambriolé !
- bah oui, ils cherchent toujours son programme électoral...