Google to host a number of JavaScript libraries
Posted on: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 2:01 pm by Anup Shah
Google just announced their AJAX Library API, where Google will host many major JavaScript frameworks for you, such as jQuery, Prototype, Mootools, Dojo, etc.
This will allow you to write web pages that refer to those scripts rather than copies on your own site, reducing your bandwidth, but also leveraging the infrastructure capabilities of Google, such as their content distributed network (which means users would be served those files from a location much closer to them), properly compressed, minified, cacheable files, etc.
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How to fix huge text in Firefox 3 Beta 5 on Kubuntu 8.04
Posted on: Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 pm by Anup Shah
Firefox 3.0 beta 5 on Kubuntu 8.04 renders some text way too big. It turns out to be an issue when using points for your font size units in CSS (although generally relative units should be preferred, anyway!). You can fix this by
- Going to about:config
- Look for the setting called
layout.css.dpi. The default value is -1. - Change it to 96
The problem appears not to be Firefox, but the GNOME window manager’s settings. However, I don’t know how to change those when running KDE instead of GNOME. Anyone know?
Firebug may also have trouble running so this post has a tip on how to sort that out.
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