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Ahlalalala.... Such a shame. I know that the US are a country of contrasts but, seriously, having at the same time the largest number of Nobel prizes in the world and THAT is a shame. It's like seeing a US state deciding to set the value of pi to 4 by a law. You can't believe it happened. But it really did...

Reminds me of an israelian rabbi who told me the dinosaurs did not really exist. I asked why. His answer was marvelous: the fossiles are said to be millions of years old but the world is much younger that that so it's impossible. Better hear that than being deaf, I know...

The human brain is the result of a few billion years of "biological changes over time". With respect to that assertion, it really seems some people don't belong to the Human Kind.

Update: I made a very nice slip when I first posted this article. I wrote the US are "a country of contrats" instead of "a country of contrasts" of course. But both are true, right ?:-)

Excerpt from a Microsoft Support's document (through Tristan, BoingBoing and many others)

" The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER. "

Could be funny if it was not so pitiful...

Je voulais vérifier si enfin un driver Linux était disponible pour la carte wifi TrueMobile 1300 de mon Dell Inspiron. Et je suis tombé là dessus :

" Does Dell ship Linux? if not, then why would you expect them to provide drivers? "

Voila. Un comble de la connerie, cette réponse. Le nombre de bécanes Dell que j'ai vu tourner en entreprise sous Linux n'est plus du niveau de l'erreur statistique epsilonesque! Vous vous en foutez peut-être mais ça moi m'a vraiment choqué. Tant que les utilisateurs penseront des crétineries comme ça, tant que le fournisseur se croira obligé par la puissance monopolistique de Microsoft de ne pas répondre au besoin de sa clientèle, il y aura un problème sérieux dans l'Informatique mondiale.

Citation de la journée d'hier, réservée aux initiés : " Microsoft, c'est le Chicxulub de l'informatique en réseau ".

Etonnant ce que l'approche des chiffres ronds, en âge, semble avoir comme effet sur les cerveaux. L'approche des 20 ans était pour la plupart d'entre nous dans l'excitation de la jeunesse, la folie des exams, le bonheur de l'amour et parfois les rudesses des premières emmerdes. Le cap des 30 ans a été surtout pour ma génération se dire qu'à vingt ans on se disait "j'aurais 30 ans en l'an 2000" et se rendre compte que bah voila on y est. L'approche des 40 ans à l'air de commencer à faire des ravages sur quelques physiques, et malheureusement quelques cerveaux... Etrange, l'horizon des 40 a l'air d'être un vrai mauvais cap à passer pour certain(e)s. Peut-être, comme l'a dit Lelouch il y a dejà plus de vingt ans, " (que l') on a l'impression quand on a atteint la quarantaine, qu'on n'a pas fait ce que l'on devait faire et qu'on n'a plus le temps de faire ce qu'on a à faire ".

The document is still a draft, but I think it gives a quite good idea of what is Nvu and how it differs from Mozilla Composer. Comments highly welcome!

Update 20040128, noon : I modified the document's layout quite a bit, reload to see the new version...

• added file removal and directory creation commands to the ftp channel; added corresponding UI to the site manager. I am hitting an unexpected, though not hard, problem : the onStopRequest method of a listener on the ftp channel gets called only if we RETRieve something... But in the case of those new commands, we don't
• Nvu 0.1 binary release scheduled for this week. Stay tuned!

Update: repository tagged, tar and zip made.

• Disruptive Innovations is now negociating a second important contract with a very big name:-) Dunno if it'll work but if it does, wow...
• Someone asked me to define myself with one "I like" and one "I don't like" : I like to say what I think, I don't like to say what I don't think. What about you ?
• Paris and the whole region should wake up tomorrow morning with a lot of snow... And it could snow for three days. That will be a mess, I'm telling you.
• I just read that finnish television is gaining more and more market share in Estonia. I wonder if it is going to have an impact on the estonian language, reducing the gap with finnish. By the way, I just found a grammar book of the livian language, I need more free time to read it...
• I wrote it at least twice, so I am adding a strong emphasis today because I am fed up with repeating it : yes, we plan to contribute back all Nvu's code to Mozilla.org. All the code will be tri-licence anyway; if we don't do it, you can do it
• So the last fashion is Orkut. Tantek invited me there. Twenty minutes later, I was invited again by a lot of ex-netscapers. More emails ? I have to admit Orkut's well designed. But this is not a disruptive innovation. A disruptive but smart way of managing communities would be a community add-on to my mail user agent. Imagine that you could add Orkut to Thunderbird just like any NNTP server; subscrive to communities just like subscribing to newgroups; list people as friends just like you maintain your address book; send a message to a community well just sending an email! Get notifications when new members join a community just the way we show that a newsgroup has new articles. And so on. That would be cool. Cool AND disruptive.
• Laurent has written a remarkable history of the early days of the Mac. Check it out if you can read french, or babelfish it if you can't.

Down under, Microsoft is not exactly what you think it is...

No, this is not Flash. But you need a decent JS+CSS browser to view it correctly. I tried only Gecko-based browsers. As expected, MSIE sux. I did not try MacIE since I have no mac here.

I did that in a few minutes after visiting a web site showing exactly the same effect in Flash...

Update: the original upload missed a background image, please reload to really see the effects

A lot of you asked me what is the banner on my blog's home page about... Our national padawan has a remarkable summary in english about what is LEN and why we complain I hope that helps.

It's not for today but it's coming. Be ready for the day Bugzilla is cleaner AND a total chaos.

Unordered thoughts:

• User can select "New Template" menu
• User can select "New Page from Template" menu
• Templates are made of two files
1. a text/html file defining the template itself
2. an RDF file to establish a consistent link from the template to all the files using the templates (the reverse link is trivial)
• Two possibilities for template file extension
1. use .htm/.html:
• when a file is loaded by Composer, check if the document defines a template. If it does, propose to
1. edit the template
2. or create a new document based on that template
• if it's a file attached to a template, apply the UA "template" stylesheet and switch to "doc based on template" mode
2. something else ; but we still have to associate it to text/html for obvious reasons
• Saving document should offer the option to "detach" the document from its template if the document is based on a template; "detach from template" operation cannot be undone.
  
• When editing a template, the user can declare the selection
• content-editable: user can modify the contents of the selection but can't modify the attributes/styles of the future (or existing) selection's container
• attribute-editable: user can modify the attributes/styles of the future (or existing) selection's container but not its contents
• all-editable: user can modify contents and attributes/styles of the future (or existing) selection's container
• When declaring a selection editable, the user must give an ID to that selection. That ID will be shown to the user while editing documents based on the template.
• "Source view" is disabled when editing a document attached to a template
  
• Portions of a template not explicitely set editable by the mechanism just above will not be modifyable in any way in the documents based on that template
• When a template is modified and saved, the user should be provided with the possibility to update all documents based on that template (that's where the RDF file mentioned above is useful...)
• I don't really like the format of Dreamweaver's templates. Everything is based on paired comments, which is cool since comments are not intrusive, but, for instance, I hate having to place the title element between two comments to say the user can modify it! On the other hand, it allows to declare editable portions of #PCDATA for instance, and that is very cool. I have a nicer solution in mind to allow making a portion of #PCDATA editable and making an element editable with one extra node only.

Comments highly welcome...

TEMPLATES !!!!!!!! Now !!!

There is still a lot to do, but this screenshot gives a quite good idea of what I have now in Nvu, I guess...

I have fixed the major bug related to tab-switching : some commands were applying to the last created tab, not the current one. I had to update the command controllers. On Seamonkey's side, I need this to go into the trunk.

...when it deals with DVDs:

• Jim Henson's Dark Crystal, Zone 1, english and spanish. $16.99 so 13.59 euros
• Jim Henson's Dark Crystal, Zone 2, english spanish and french. 30.11 euros

And they wonder why people illegally copy and distribute music and films?

The source of the XBL wrapper for MSIE HTCs is now available; check it out, this is very cool. Thanks Dean.

Alors que Google nous montre qu'il n'est pas fiable (ce qui, après tout, était le but de la manoeuvre...), Tristan assure comme une bête sur Altavista! Allez, encore un verre d'Irouleguy pour oublier mon échec

Update: woaaaaahhh; Tristan premier, Tristan détrôné, Google réveillé. Je vous mets tous minables sur Google

J'ai déjà vu des titres mieux rédigés et également mieux relus avant publication:

" En Thaïlande, une accusation accuse l'Etat d'avoir menti sur le mal dont meurent les volailles "

Update: Libé a corrigé le titre depuis...

• les parents d'enfants scolarisés à l'école maternelle Alsace de Saint-Germain en Laye (Yvelines), dont Maria et moi, viennent d'être notiifiés de l'élévation au niveau supérieur du plan Vigikigratte. Ce qui impose des restrictions supplémentaires sur les horaires d'ouverture des portes de l'école apparemment. Au cas où l'école maternelle Alsace de Saint-Germain en Laye (Yvelines) soit une cible privilégiée des hordes de Ben Laden, bien entendu... On va aussi du coup remettre les barrières devant l'entrée de l'école pour enfants handicapés de la rue d'à côté, qui est elle aussi une future cible d'importance. Attendez, la petite vieille avec sa canne et son Rolser pliant là, ça serait pas une terroriste infiltrée? SI, si, elle a des bouillons Kub dans son caba; c'est pas humain ces trucs-là! Vite, Sarko, au secours!
• s'il y a une chose que j'ai toujours détesté dans Usenet, c'est l'extrêmisme de ses Gardiens du Temple. Usenet n'a aucune souplesse, et les imbus de followup-to y sont malheureusement légion. Quand je modérais fr.emplois avec Vincent, on essayait tellement d'être souples qu'il nous arrivait souvent de corriger les annonces pour les émetteurs. On a passés des annonces totalement hors charte parce qu'on les jugeait importantes. On essayait juste d'aider des demandeurs d'emploi, en évitant de pêter plus haut que ce que vous savez. On ne se fachait que face aux menaces et aux insultes, ou presque. Je commence à croire qu'il est urgent d'inventer le successeur de Usenet uniquement à cause des débordements de connerie. Personnellement, si c'était réaliste, je serais libertaire. Mais ça ne l'est pas. Et Usenet en est une forme de démonstration. Ca marche, mais c'est le souk total, et c'est plein de petits chefs. Je le dis comme je le pense, en vrac et texto. Z'êtes pas content? C'est votre droit; c'est le mien aussi. Je sui fatigué mais lucide. Et Usenet me plait de moins en moins.
• certains semblent ne pas aimer les propos concernant le député liberticide. Bon. Qu'en pense Google?
• j'essayais de calculer les coûts de communications hebdomadaires du W3C et de ses membres pour l'ensemble des conférences téléphoniques d'une heure ou plus qui ont lieu chaque semaine et je me disais qu'il serait très vite rentabilisé de mettre en place une grosse passerelle SIP/VoIP/RTC et demander à chaque membre d'utiliser un SIP-phone au lieu d'un téléphone. Les comms seraient alors gratuites, la passerelle agirait sur des numéros téléphoniques locaux US gratuits, l'amortissement serait certainement très rapide.
• il parait que des polonaises en prennent tous les jours au petit déjeuner. Je peux goûter?
• courses atronomiques blafardes, au Palomar j'arrive.

David Baron just checked in support for the CSS 3 ~ indirect adjacent combinator. This new combinator can help styling documents using section headers without having to encapsulate all sections inside a div, and nest all sections. Here's how:

The key idea is using the cascade and rules of same specificity... If for instance, you want all the contents of level 1 sections to have a left margin of 1em, level 2 2em, and so on, but you want to keep all section headers aligned to the left border of the document, you'll write:

h1 ~ * { margin-left: 1em }
h2 ~ * { margin-left: 2em }
h3 ~ * { margin-left: 3em }
h4 ~ * { margin-left: 4em }
h5 ~ * { margin-left: 5em }
h6 ~ * { margin-left: 6em }
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { margin-left: 0em }

All the selectors above (there are 12 selectors there) have exactly the same specificity. This implies that all h1..h6 will always have no left margin, and all other elements will have a margin depending on the deepest section header element being before them.

Right, but are there any constraints on my doc? Yes: your flat document needs to be really flat but still structured. All your h1...h6 need to be children of the same parent element, for instance the body element. You can append an H2...H6 to the parent element of all section headers if and only the last H* before that new Hn is Hn-1...H6. You can append an H1 to the the parent element of all section headers at any time. Example:

<body>
  <h1>1. foo</h1>
    <p>bla bla bla</p>
    <p>bla bla bla</p>
    <h2> 1.1. foo1</h2>
      <h3>1.1.1 bar</h3>
        <p>bla bla</p>
        <p>bla bla</p>
      <h3>1.1.2 bar</h3>
        <p>bla bla</p>
        <p>bla bla</p>
    <h2> 1.2. taz</h2>
      <h3>1.2.1 toz</h3>
        <p>bla bla</p>
        <p>bla bla</p>
      <h3>1.2.1 tuz</h3>
        <p>bla bla</p>
        <p>bla bla</p>
  <h1>2. protz</h1>
    <p>bla bla</p>
</body>

The style rules above are quite bad in terms of performance, but they can help render a flat almost-tag-soup doc in a nice way without having to rewrite it completely, and still in conformance with HTML4 and CSS3.

Dean Edwards is the man of the week. And he wins that award easily! He has made an XBL wrapper for Internet Explorer behavioral extensions (called HTC) for Mozilla!!! This means that all XML behavioral extensions to IE can now work in Mozilla! I don't think this works with binary HTCs though but this is still an impressive achievement. Check it out at http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/, the boxes are movable through an HTC!

I reported a problem with Mozilla >= 1.6a (this was working with 1.5) and Dean fixed the problem in just a few hours. The JavaScript in the XBL is compressed for the moment but Dean let me know he will publish an uncompressed full version on his site in a few days.

Again, check it out! Woooozaaaaaa!

In 2000, the site of reference for US elections was Voter.com. Seems that in 2004, it's Meetup.com. Who's next?

Very cool changes into the Style Engine these days, thanks to David Baron:

• bug 15608 resolved/fixed: adjacent combinator now supports dynamism!!! In other words selector h1 + p.foo will work if a p following a h1 suddenly acquires class "foo"! This opens a lot of new perspective in terms of stylesheets.
• bug 135141, patch attached: implement the new CSS3's ~ indirect adjacent combinator!

WAHOOOOOOOOOO

Je me remets à peine d'un éclat de rire massif, après avoir vu la nouvelle publicité télévisée Krisprolls dans laquelle le krisprolls qu'Ingmar essaye de manger sonne comme un téléphone mobile. Sa femme est au bout du fil bien sûr et dit son fameux "Ingmaaaaar...". Il replit alors le krisprolls en deux et le range dans sa poche. Après la marque, on voit Ingmar faire le con avec sa robe de chambre. Absolument hilarant, du loufoque comme je l'aime. Personne ne l'aurait enregistrée et digitalisée ?

This post expresses an opinion that many people share, sometimes secretly because they belong to standardization instances where this opinion is considered to be a troll : XML misses an important point to become the lingua franca of the Web. Whatever the level of the "XML fever", our web sites are still in (x)HTML, and if they are internally XML-based, we don't see that XML.

Let me rephrase that : even if generic XML hit successfully the market of data exchange, it has not hit the Web yet despite of many years of existence, and will not make it unless a few basic stuff are added to XML. If those basic stuff are not added to XML, the Web will move from HTML to XHTML but we won't see other XML dialects on the Web (exception made of RSS and consorts).

styles

Come on, I am not speaking of XSL here. Just nobody uses XSL on the Web, and that fact is not subject to major changes in the coming months, thank Zeus. I am speaking of CSS. To apply CSS styles to an XML document today, the following choices are available (I am excluding protocol-based solutions):

• Use a processing instruction to attach a CSS stylesheet to the document. Easy, reliable. Mucho mucho more complex to handle when you have to add dynamism to your document (movable objects, programmatically positionable elements, ...)
• Use the XHTML style attribute declaring the XHTML namespace and using xhtml:style

Wait!!! All XML documents can do the latter? Sure, why do you ask? So the way of attaching inline CSS styles to an arbitrary element in XML implies XHTML knowledge? Yes, isn't it ironic that a generic XML browser would have to know about a specific XML dtd/schema to handle something as simple and useful as inline stylistic data?

In my opinion, this is not only ridiculous but also counter-productive. Inline styles are the only reliable way to do wysiwyg copy/paste of information between two documents without caring about the context. And in some cases where the context matters a lot, it's the only way. I think the style attribute should be extracted from the XHTML namespace and belong to the XML namespace, just like xml:id. That way, no need for browsing/printing/editing tools to have knowledge of XHTML to allow inline styles. Use it or don't use it in your documents if you want, for instance adding to your XML dialect's specification a profile where the XML style attribute cannot be used, but let it be available to anyone without knowledge of XHTML.

Then we hit the problem of embedded stylesheets. Embedded stylesheets are the stylesheets your can find inserted into a style element in HTML documents. You can't embed stylesheets into a generic XML instance. Hell, again, why? Embedded stylesheets are extremely useful on the web. A lot of super-useful bookmarklets use them. A lot of dynamic sites use them. Correction, a lot of dynamic HTML documents use them.

The xml-stylesheet processing instruction should be extended to allow embedding of CSS stylesheets (that's a proposal originally made, again, by Ian Hickson I think).

classes

Are you a CSS author? I mean, do you have enough basic knowledge of HTML and CSS to know what is a class? If you have, you can skip the rest of this paragraph. The class attribute is an attribute available to almost all HTML elements. It contains a list of white-space separated keywords that can be used by CSS stylesheets to specify the styles that should be applied to an element. If for instance the rule p.foo { color: red; } applies to an HTML document, all paragraphs in that document having their class attribute containing the value "foo" (I say containing because the attribute can contain more than one keyword) will use the color "red" for their text/foreground color. But the paragraphs having no class attribute or not having "foo" contained in the class attribute will NOT use that color. See how it is useful?

So can you believe classes don't exist in XML? Right. CSS has the notion of class selector (see paragraph above for an example). CSS class selectors were designed in a way so that CSS authors do not need to know the name of the class attribute in the document the styles apply to. The XML dialect should provide that information. The XML dialect? Wait!!! So what about well-formed documents? Hum, oh, argl. What about xhtml:class?

Or what about fallbacking to [mynamespace:myclassattr~="foo"]? Yes, why not? Wait!!! If I do that, I can't make a generic stylesheet applying a given class to all my XML dialects without knowing the name of the class attribute in each and every dialect of my collection! Why do I have to use a steamroller to kill that insect? Why can't I just write .foo { ... } ? Why xml:id and not xml:class?

Come on again. Is that too hard to understand how valuable is xml:class? Is putting the class attribute into the xml namespace too expensive in terms of namespace usage? Of course not. But the problem still stands, and there is no valid reason why. The class attribute should be in the XML namespace. Corollary, why does it take seven years to solve such a problem...

links

What a joke... But a sad joke. A foundation of the Web is HYPERLINKS. And super-simple hyperlinks. Now, take a look at the available mechanisms to make an hyperlink in XML:

• XLink: I'll let others express my own opinion... This is so unusable that the HTML Working Group has kept anchors and links in XHTML 2.0. They even have another proposal called HLink!
• XHTML namespace, again and again...

Hmm, that impression of déjà vu... Why can't we have the super-simple xml:href, xml:rel and xml:rev on all elements of all XML dialects? To turn any element into the source of an hyperlink? Yes, that's that simple to do, and XHTML 2.0 proved it.

scripts

Aaaaah, scripts. The Web would not be without scripts. And those who believe the contrary are even more fanatics than the ones I mentioned just above. The Web relies on scripts just everywhere. Right, it relies on scripts everywhere because we failed specifying declarative ways of doing what scripts achieve programmatically. But scripts are so powerful that I doubt it's possible to do all what they do declaratively.

Anyway, declarative replacements for scripting are not available today so let's deal with what we have now. The question is simple : can I use scripts in relationship with a generic XML document?. The answer is no less simple: no.

What?!? Wait, so what's the point having that superb DOM if it can only be used by chrome? And, and, and... Yes. I know. Why do you think XUL has the script element?

Oh, right, xhtml:script.... sigh... So is an XML-ized Web supposed to have all its key features, and by "key" I mean all the features that made the Web really what it is today, come from the XHTML namespace? That's total non-sense.

A generic XML way of using scripts is absolutely and urgently needed. Make it simple, make it xml:script.

In conclusion, I will say that we don't need a lot to make it happen. Give me all the above and I abandon XHTML right now. But that process is blocked that only a few people I am not afraid to call fanatics, people who close their eyes to pragmatism in the name of a theoretical purity.

And it's just a shame.

PS: can someone explain Google that the TLD .fr is France and not Venezuela? Google auto-detects I am from there and I have no idea why.

• a lot of tweaking in answer to Lindows's request : nicer tabs, site manager columns, close button's action, prefs, ...
• block borders

  

  You can't believe how easy this was to do... Everything is already in CaScadeS! When I wrote CaScadeS, I made it so all its panels are reusable for inline style dialogs
• fonts toolbar dropdown(yes, I do know that some of you consider fonts on the web harmful.)

  

• fixed table cell properties bug : it was impossible to switch a cell from TD to TH or back (checked in)
• fixed table cell properties bug : it was impossible to reset the height or the width of the table cell (checked in)

• fixed font-family dropdown menu in Seamonkey Messenger, Thunderbird and Nvu : it was not showing the correct value at all (not checked in)

Starbucks lands in Paris! They should open their first bar here soon. I hope it will be a good incentive for Paris' bars and restaurants to make a better espresso, because we are reaching at high speed the quality of swedish coffe, and the price of swedish espresso. The former could scare an Italian to death, and the latter scares my wallet every time I'm there. Go Starbucks, go! Kick'em'all!

Tantek Çelik

This DOM Level 2 Method is very useful, very powerful, implemented in Mozilla... and unused. Nobody at all uses Range.surroundContents(). That's probably why nobody ever noticed what I think it a copy/paste error...

First, we split the start containing node of the range here if it's a characterData node. Text.splitText() returning the new text node, we keep track of it after zeroing the corresponding offset. Then we test the endContainer, and if it's a characterData node, we do the same. But here, to keep track of the end of the range, we need to preserve the original node and the original offset even after the call to splitText() instead of using the new node and zeroing the offset...

I think I have found another problem below in the same method. I am closely looking at it because I need this method to be working reliably for Composer.

Update: this is bug 135928 and peterv hit it before me.

Microsoft starts a humour campaign. Unfortunately, only geeks are laughing.

And that "he" is Gerald Bauer. If anyone of us still had any kind thought for that guy despite of his permanent misuse of the XUL acronym, that's over. He clearly went beyond the limits a few days ago.

Let's state it very clearly:

http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul

I hope the Mozilla Foundation is going to take some legal actions against whoever misuses the acronym "XUL". And I hope Gerald Bauer will be the first on the list.

Crazy Frogs.... Wanadoo, France Telecom's ISP, is interested in buying AOL Europe!!!

A binary early release of Nvu, for both Linux and Windows, will probably see the light and be freely available in the coming weeks. We are also in the process of setting up the cvs server for the source code, as promised. Stay tuned, and be patient.

The Loya Jirga has adopted the new Constitution. And I don't think this can be called a victory...

• First article (excerpts) : Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic
• Second article (excerpts) : the religion of the State is the sacred religion of Islam. Other religions' believers are free to practice their religion in the limits of the Law
• Third article (excerpts) : the beliefs and dispositions of the sacred religion of Islam are above all laws in Afghanistan and no law can go against them

Welcome to the 21st century. By the way, if you want to keep your folks in the 16th century, that's ok. And thanks for the oil pipe-line and the heroïn market. Oh, and in the meantime, Bin Laden is still running.

Malraux, wake up, you were right.

Le Palais de la Découverte, le CMI et les boutiques ne me suffisaient plus. Il fallait donc que je trouve d'autre lieux où mettre librement mes mains sur un clavier.

...to Pierre Saslawsky: message reçu Glad to see you made it, had fun and are safe (and read my blog!!!). Enjoy Buenos Aires and Argentina! Hey, you'll have to stop making the news when you are back to our so-called civilized world!

Since this is a c++ patch, it also applies to the Mozilla Application Suite. I have spent a few cycles on my old buggy patch for bug 205946 and it's now working very well without side-effect. When I create a new document, most of the annoying <br> that used to remain at the end of paragraphs are now gone.

Now, to eat my own dogfood, I need to fix the behavior of dt/dd elements in the editor. Typing return when the caret is in such an element totally sucks. It's not usable and I can't stand it any longer.

Apparently, last week, when the US authorities asked the French Government to block a few planes and check some passengers based on hints provided by the US, the French Air&Borders Police found a four years old girl, a old chinese woman and a british City yupie. The data provided by the US were (I quote) "so weak that the anti-terrorist units here did not even want to open a file"... I seriously wonder if the threat level in the US is not used as an electoral argument; remember that the electoral campaign starts next 19th january...

UPDATE: this is now confirmed by the FBI itself.

• spend a week of vacation with Maria in Mauritius or Cape Town for instance
• get a 7200rpm >= 60gigs hard disk for my laptop
• hire...
• invest
• fix the espresso machine or buy a new one
• teach Michel how to ride a bicycle
• teach Gabriel how to ride a tricycle
• change my motorbike
• read the books I had no time to read between last September and now
• finish the sci-fi book I had no time to write during the 3 last years!
• try to be less sick than in 2003... 2003 was a very bad year for me
• keep being impressed by the beauty and cleverness of Mozilla
• repaint the living-room