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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 06, 2023
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=> ↺ Help Wanted! Testing Better Markdown Footnotes
To that end, I'm writing a patch for PHP Markdown which will display the first ~200 characters of a footnote in the pop-up title text. Hover over the superscript number and you'll get a preview of the footnote1.
=> ↺ Giving Firefox the tiniest URL bar bookmark 'star' button possible
One of the irritating ongoing changes in Firefox over the past N years is Firefox's slow but steady encroachment on the space in the URL bar. One of those things is the 'star' button for bookmarking the current page (or unbookmarking it), which Mozilla added at one point and doesn't let you remove, even if you don't use bookmarking and want the space so you can actually see more of the page's URL. So after grousing about it, I wound up removing the star button in my custom Firefox build, through the means of commenting out the entire snippet of browser 'HTML' that defines it. It turns out that this breaks Ctrl-D, apparently because the normal pop-up bookmark dialog wants to manipulate the state of the star. With no star element at all to manipulate, Firefox starts raising internal Javascript errors.
This got a bit delayed due to $DAYJOB interfering with my important hacking and writing time (darn having to make a living), but Firefox 111 is out. [...]
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