Girish Gangadharan

Stumbled upon wordle today. Gave it my blog’s url and played with it for a while. It’s pretty cool actually. When I finally got bored and stopped, here’s what i had.

Click on the image above for better resolution (Takes you to wordle)

No new features. Sorry. But this one took me months to finally get it right.

Every time i got this email from mozilla.org (contents shown below), my heart broke.

The following files of Select Search 3.0 have been retained in the sandbox by a Mozilla Add-ons editor:

Review Information:
Reviewer: Andrew Williamson
Tested on winxp with fx3
Comments: the pref exists checking you added doesn’t appear to be complete as I got these two errors with a quick test:
Error: Component returned failure code: 0×8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]

Source file: chrome://selectsearch/content/selectsearchOverlay.js
Line: 808
and
Error: Component returned failure code: 0×8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]Source file: chrome://selectsearch/content/optionsDialog.js
Line: 2977

After about half a dozen failed attempts to figure out a solution, one great suggestion by one of the reviewers (Andrew Williamson), helped me finally fix the bugs. All I had to do was add a defaults.js file under defaults/preferences folder that sets the default prefs.

I know what I’m about to say is hard to believe, but I actually have gotten quite a few emails from people asking me if I was planning to upgrade my extension and that they kind of missed it after upgrading to FF 3.0 (LOL! I swear. No kidding.) as Select Search was retained in the sandbox for several months without approval, until today. It was my fault though. I just didn’t know how to fix the bugs they reported.

I was elated and frankly relieved when I finally got this email from Mozilla today.

The following files of Select Search 3.0 have been made public by a Mozilla Add-ons editor:

Select Search 3.0 – ALL

Review Information:
Reviewer: Andrew Williamson
Tested on winxp with fx3
Comments: Looks great – thanks for the update.

Well, to all the people that contributed to the 15,513 downloads as of this second, a big thanks and here – enjoy the new version.

I came across this cool firefox extension called Dust-me selectors. One word – impressed.

Here’s what it does (as mentioned in Sitepoint) :

Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.

It extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used. The data is then stored so that when testing subsequent pages, selectors can be crossed off the list as they’re encountered.

Here’s are a few screen shots

A cute icon sits on the right corner of your status bar.

Click on that icon and it scans the stylesheet(s) associated with the site and within a few seconds it gives you a list of all the stylesheets and the selectors that are unused in each one of them. As you can see in the screenshot below, morethan2cents.com has 2 stylesheets and the first one has zero selectors that are unused. And the second one, has 146 selectors that are unused. (So then, why have i not cleaned ‘em up? Cuz I’m a lazy bum. That’s why.)

Immensely useful tool that can keep your stylesheets clean and light weight since they don’t carry any unnecessary styles that are not used in the site.

More than 2 cents Verdict: That’s Hot!