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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Woes on UTF-8 plain text transfers
Some things that didn’t quite seem to work right in Chrome and Firefox. It seems that when reading text files from some servers, the reply for text files are UTF-8 instead of plain ASCII text. However, Safari seems to be able to understand that the UTF-8 BOM was not to be parsed as part of the data, but Chrome and Firefox doesn’t seem to know that.
This throws weird problems that would seem to be browser issues. This can be solved by stripping the plain text file of the UTF-8 BOM by removing the \xef\xbb\xbf pre-appended text.
Things should work across all browsers after that.
Safari vs Mozilla: Javascript HTML5
I did some web coding recently and was intensively trying to use some Javascript and HTML5 features to dynamically manipulate content within a webpage. From past experiences, this manipulation can be done in some ways by using getDocumentById as well as innerText. Continue reading Safari vs Mozilla: Javascript HTML5
Save some power – check ServerBackup
This took some time for me to find out, but there was some process on my OSX Server that was churning away at my drives. I really didn’t mind leaving my drives on, but having it spin too often would lead it to an earlier death due to mechanical failure. Continue reading Save some power — check ServerBackup