OK. Because this was confusing the hell out of me, I had to post about figuring it out.
Let’s say you’re a developer writing a Mozilla Firefox Extension that searches for text on a page (or rather, in a browser window). If you have a button that has the following functionality attached onclick:
var webBrowserFind = getBrowser().selectedBrowser.webBrowserFind;
webBrowserFind.searchString […]
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Found at: http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2008/05/all_decisions_o.html
Turns out all patent decisions since 2000 might be invalid. Patent judges have been appointed by an agency with no constitutional rights to do so. So, everything they’ve decided isn’t legally binding.
There’s going to be some bill passed by Congress to uphold these decisions. How many billions of dollars have traded hands since […]
I’ve had a MacBook Pro for about 3 days now, and I’m loving it. One really sweet program is Quicksilver, which is like the Windows Run dialog on steroids. There’s a great script I’ve just started using that lets you send Adium IMs from Quicksilver
It’d be even sweeter if as you type the username, it […]
I read an article about a Checkers fast food restaurant being cited for keeping bread in the men’s bathroom, and they were nice enough to link out to a site — myfloridalicense.com
I checked out the site and found a fantastic search engine. Florida keeps records online of all restaurant inspections, and what the restaurants were […]
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I found a very good quote from St Augustine the other day. Basically it’s about people keeping their mouths shut about things they don’t know about. I’m sure I could get into a great philosophical discussion about this, but I’ll save it for real life, maybe over a beer. Any takers?