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J'ai eu affaire assez tard à l'antisémitisme dans ma propre vie. Il a en fait fallu attendre que je sois à l'Ecole Polytechnique, donc en gros mes 20 ans, pour découvrir un jour un billet glissé sous ma porte de chambre avec une énorme étoile de David au marqueur rouge sous-titrée "juif!". Puis il y a quelques années, j'ai reçu une lettre de saloperies faisant suite à un courrier des lecteurs que j'avais envoyé au Monde Radio-Télévision. Apparemment, l'auteur "spammait" ses saloperies à tous ceux dont le courrier y était publié. Dans mon cas, c'était de l'antisémitisme; dans le cas d'une femme, c'était des horreurs sexistes. J'avais porté plainte à l'époque, et avait été convoqué dans un bureau de police du 13ème pour déposer. Sans suite, bien entendu.

Ce midi, à la cantine, alors que les cérémonies des 60 ans de la libération d'Auschwitz se sont tenues hier, pof, l'antisémitisme ordinaire à la table juste derrière moi. "On entend qu'eux, les juifs, les juifs, y'en a marre des juifs, et puis d'abord ils étaient pas tous seuls, c'est les communistes allemands qui y sont passés les premiers; y'en a marre de ne parler que d'eux, ils ont beaucoup trop de pouvoir dans les media, on peut rien dire à leur sujet, alors qu'eux ce qu'ils font aux Palestiniens, et...". Il n'y a pas de suite à ces trois points de suspension. Parce que je me suis retourné instantanément et que j'ai poussé une gueulante contre le vieux con - à tronche de vieux con - qui tenait ces propos. Je fulminais. Laurent doit pouvoir témoigner que mes mains en tremblaient de colère. Un autre gars ma fait remarquer que les extrêmistes juifs font chier le monde. Certes. Je suis le premier à le reconnaître et à l'écrire ici. Mais cela n'excuse en rien les propos de connard pré-cité.

Chirac également m'a fait me mettre en colère, chez moi, devant ma télé. Quand je l'ai entendu parler de "la conscience d'une faute". LA QUOI ?!? C'est l'Assemblée Nationale légitimement élue qui, à une voix près, a donné les pleins pouvoirs à Pétain, c'est le tout-Paris qui se pressait au Rex pour rire de l'exposition sur les juifs, c'est la Police Française que mes grands-parents paternels ont réussi à éviter de justesee, c'est la France qui a raflé les enfants quand les schleuhs ne les demandaient pas, c'est la Gendarmerie Française qui jouait les matons de QHS à Drancy et Pithiviers, c'est la SNCF et l'Administration qui n'ont rien fait pour arrêter les convois. Alors merde à la "conscience d'une faute". Les Français ont dans leur vaste majorité laissé crever les juifs, sans aider au massacre mais sans sauver. Avec un sentiment assez profond de "depuis le temps que ça leur pendait au nez, bien fait". A quand un Schroeder français qui aura le culot de dire que non, Vichy n'était pas une parenthèse récusée de l'Histoire de France, oui, la France a fauté et n'a rien fait pour sauver de la mort ses citoyens et refugiés comme les royautés danoises et néerlandaises ont su le faire, oui il y a de quoi avoir honte, et implorer pardon. On est en 2005. Et la France est encore comme en 1905. Désespérant.

Quant à la Pologne, qui vient de réussir à faire un scandale à l'Europe pour nier sa responsabilité dans le génocide, elle ferait bien de la fermer, et hermétiquement encore. L'antisémitisme ordinaire est encore très présent chez les Polonais et les Russes, partiellement entretenu par une frange radicale du clergé (en Pologne). Dans ma famille, tous n'ont pas fini dans les camps; une bonne partie est tombée sous les coups des Polonais de leur localité.

WARNING 1: THIS IS A TEST BUILD ONLY AND IT IS NOT THE FINAL 0.80. We are looking for feedback about MAJOR bugs only like big crashers or complete loss of data or unability to launch the app. Minor bug reports not welcome for this RC2. Thanks!

WARNING 2: please backup and delete your profile first!!

On windows: c:\Documents and Settings\<login>\Application Data\Nvu
On mac: /Library/Application Support/Nvu
On linux: ~/.nvu

What's new:

• XHTML 1.0 support (see checkbox in File > New dialog)

  WARNING: to be able to edit an XHTML file, its MIME type must be application/xhtml+xml. It is then highly recommended to use locally the extension *.xhtml and check that your remote server serves XHTML files with the correct MIME type. Ask your ISP if you don't understand the above.

• line numbering in source view
• support for <?php ... ?>

  WARNING: <? ... ?> form is deprecated by the PHP Group and is NOT supported
  <% ... %> form for asp/jsp is NOT supported

• support for comments <!-- ... -->
• double-click on a PHP/Comment in Normal view to edit it; use Insert menu to create one
• small icons in main toolbar (Customize toolbar, checkbox is in panel)
• all strings now localizable
• when a document is published and if the relevant directory is shown in the site manager, its entry/icon is added if it's not already there

What's fixed:

• 2 security bugs
• site manager was not able to work correctly if the remote server allows to climb above home directory
• Horizontal Line properties were not working
• source view was deleting some white spaces
• rulers could not resize tables with cellspacing="0"
• on slow machines, the Site Manager remained blank on first launch because the pinger dialog is modal
• a lot of minor bugs

  Official Windows installer (20050127, 0.80RC2)

  Official Linux tarball (20050127, 0.80RC2, Linspire 4.5, gcc 2.95.4, gtk2, xft)

  Official Mac OS X tarball (20050127, 0.80RC2)

This is just amazing:-)

Right for my mother's birthday: 0.80 RC1. Comments welcome only for major bug reports, thanks.

  Official Windows installer (20050125, 0.80RC1)

  Official Linux tarball (20050125, 0.80RC1)

I don't like XForms but that's not the subject of this post. Doron Rosenberg is now making Mozilla and the whole world-wide Web community reach a new age : for the first time at such scale, a browser can be extended in its core features' list by a downloadable extension (an XPI in our world). This is absolutely amazing. We're not speaking of a new menu or an extra preference here; we're speaking of adding XForms' knowledge to the kernel of a browser (that's a bit more complex than that but the visible effect is that one). So I just want to say Doron and the other people who worked on that "wow! WOW! BRAVO!".

Yes, mlk and not milk... Just got a spam email with a From line "Amilkar". I am unable to find information about the origin of that quite common first name. I can only notice the presence of the triletter mlk meaning king in all semitic languages. Anyone having a clue?

Just a quick note: yes, I know, we're late on 0.80 wrt the roadmap I posted some while ago. But I was not expecting to make so fast progress on the XHTML side. I guess it's worth a few days of delay, isn't it?

• reverted to ftp-based access from site manager since it clobbered all PHP inclusions in document instances (thanks to problems's reporter)
• fixed a bug in copy/paste of links
• more work on the <br> side

  For Boris: Boris, my fix is not in the layout, unfortunately. I am only hiding those elements to the user so the resulting document is cleaner. Internally, nothing has changed. I said "core" because it's not a JS front-end hack, it's in serializer.

• fixed a problem in composer/src on linux builds
• the pinger was modified so you should not experience again a white empty site manager
• fixed a bug in selection when switching from normal to source view and the selection was on a br element

People, this is a big day... I think I have found a core way to remove ALL annoying useless BR elements in the documents created by Composer and Nvu. This will need a lot of testing so I'm not sure it'll make 0.80. But be sure I'm on it.

Aaaaahhhh, mucho mucho better XHTML support It's almost done.

• More work on the XHTML side.
  • had to hack nsEditor because it created only HTML elements and never XHTML elements; I ended up with upper-case tags in xhtml...
  • the pref now controls the type of blank document created by ctrl-n or New Document. I still have to fix the code so the first blank document when the app is launched complies with the pref.
  • entities are badly exported to the colored source view because I forgot to add to nsXMLContentSerializer the code I wrote for that purpose in nsHTMLContentSerializer... Will do that tomorrow. Thanks Stéphane Pineau for the heads up.
• Fixed the security problem described below.
• Finished cleaning all orphan non-localizable strings in the app (major thanks Bob for the list).

CNN.com front page:

BWAHAHAHAHA !!!! So true !!!!!! I think someone had a lot of fun at CNN.com forging this title. It's true, factual and still, you end up reading that "intelligence" as "cleaverness". Well done

When a document linking a stylesheet using a relative URL is opened through the Site Manager, the CSS editor shows the FTP account/password in the stylesheet's URL. This bug is similar to the previous Security Warning issued a week ago. Will be fixed in Nvu 0.80.

Excerpt from FJC News:

" Among the issues of immediate concern for the Jewish community in Latvia, Rabbi Glazman spoke about the risk of assimilation that Jews may face as Latvia becomes further integrated into the European Union. "

Seriously, I am devastated by the fact this man and I share the same family name. There is even a strong possibility that we have direct family links. To comment on the above, the main problem Lubavitcher face right now is not a problem of assimilation in the european union, but a problem of non-assimilation in the 21st century... They are fanatics, obsessed by a way of life coming directly from a 17th century's Poland, and partly disconnected from modern life. In Paris, they are rebuilding the ghetto.. My oldest friend, the guy I used to consider as the brother I neved had, turned Lubavitch when he was 22. He seem to be happy, in his life of constraints, but I lost my oldest friend. Fanatics - and even more religious fanatics - are dangerous. Fanatic jews too.

Two hours... Hum, two hours... Well, only two hours ?!? Yes, only two hours. Huygens survived on Titan two hours and I could not help but asking myself "Why did they send a spaceship, full of computers and sensors, to the other side of the solar system in a seven years' journey with an expected life of only two hours ?". I was unable to find a good answer until I remembered two facts: first, Titan is far away from the Sun and has a very cloudy dense atmosphere; solar cells are probably pretty useless there unless you can cover a soccer court with solar cells. Second, it's a cold world, a very cold one. -180 celsius. At that temperature, I guess Huygens needed some warming to correctly operate, and that has probably sucked the batteries in two hours...

XHTML approaching...

That movie with Jude Law, Julia Roberts and a few others is about a man having sex with a woman who has sex with another man himself having sex with the first woman but not only that one and... Hum. Wow. Really. Did a few french script-writers move to Hollywood or what?

WOW, that is really something. Looks like an old aerial photo of Kreta but hey, it's Titan! Probably not the best vacation's destination ever for a coastline, no return flights -180 celsius and a sea of methan, but still, what a great picture.

(image on European Space Agency's web site)

• When a new document is created and the user immediately switches to source view, the caret is badly placed in the source view: fixed
• New menu entries "Insert PHP Code" and "Insert Comment". Undoable.
• The "Show border around linked image" in Link tab in Insert Image dialog was not working well: fixed
• A lot of bug fixes and bug triage
• I am very happy to report that, with crucial help from Benjamin Smedberg, Nvu (a) does not need any more the -edit command line argument to start with a URL (b) is now able to open files, even using relative paths In other words, nvu ..\..\mydocs\tata.html and nvu http://nvu.com now both work fine.

Localizations:

• nl-NL (thanks to Gert-Paul van der Beek)

Seen on CNet: " (Steve) Case wants to continue investing his time and money in "disruptive" businesses, but he remained mum on his plans. " (strong emphasis mine)

Eh:-)

Heads up from Tantek.

• PHP/comment copy and paste now ok
• PHP/comment ok on save/load
• PHP/comment now visible in status toolbar; warning context menu needs work
• double-clicking on a PHP/comment icon in Normal view fires a specific editing dialog
• PHP/comment contents visible in tooltip when pointer's hovering over the icon
• Fedora 3 build

  Official Fedora **3** tarball (20050111)

Nick Farrell plays it again...

Excerpts from www.asialinux.com:

" Oracle Signs Up for Early Certification on Asianux "

" Asianux is a Linux server operating system which is co-developed by Chinese Leading Linux vendor Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. and Japanese Linux vendor Miracle Linux Cooperation "

And now compare the logos:

And Oracle does not seem to complain... Eh. When Business takes precedence over Trademarks.

I wonder if our US friends - and in particular our Mozilla Foundation friends - know how much Tristan Nitot is really involved in Mozilla, how much he pushes its technologies every single minute he's awake... Most european readers already know that Tristan is present on all fronts, giving talks at every corner of the continent, interviewed by too many newspapers to list them here, bringing the Word of Mozilla to a lot of organizations, governmental or pivate.

Today, I was looking for news sources about Nvu when I found that one.

Because I wanted to know what that site is really about, I went to its home page and BAM the Nitot effect hit me again. I told you, he's everywhere, pushing Mozilla wherever and whever he can. I'm glad we have him onboard!!!

So MUCHO kudos to Tristan Nitot, he really deserves it!

Je me suis encore explosé un doigt hier soir. Cela fait le troisième tout de même. Si vous croisez un geek essayant de taper sur le clavier de son laptop avec des moufles à l'allure de gros pansement tout blanc, c'est moi

Alive... More than a year after the previous one, a new entry on my No Comment blog.

• First experimental PHP support
  • PHP <?php ... ?> chunks will be preserved correctly in the markup. Warning, they are NOT preserved correctly as attribute values.
  • Comment <!-- .. --> preserved correctly in the markup
  • both PHP PIs and comments are now visible in the Normal View. Warning, they are also visible in the Preview View, that's a bug
  • Clicking on a PHP or comment icon in the Normal View allows to edit the PHP code or the comment in the status bar of the winow
  • Saves correctly documents
• Line numbering in the source view. Warning, the caret is initially badly placed when entering the source view.
• Copy and Paste hacked to stand line numbering
• added treeProcessors.js to be able to register tree processors to be called (a) when the document is loaded or when the app goes from Source to Normal (b) when the document is saved or when the app goes from Normal to Source

  Official Windows installer (20050107)

  Official Fedora 2 tarball (20050107)

Sa maison est vraiment superbe. Autant qu'elle d'ailleurs. Elle a un charme fou, des longues jambes, un visage attirant, des courbes délicieuses. On visite. Je remarque une porte matelassée et je lui demande ce qu'il y a derrière. Elle sourit et déverouille la porte. On entre, et on se retrouve dans le vestiaire de sa piscine d'intérieur. On traverse. Wow, une piscine d'intérieur. On sent à la température de l'air que la piscine est chauffée. Cela doit être super. Elle me demande si je veux piquer une tête. Je rougis et lui réponds que je n'ai pas de maillot de bain et que la verrière permettrait à tous les voisins de se rincer l'oeil sur un Quasimodo à pas cher. Elle éclate de rire, appuie sur un bouton qui ferme en même temps un store sur chaque fenêtre, puis allume la lumière, se deshabille entièrement et plonge. Je suis pétrifié, elle est incroyablement sexy. Après quelques brasses, elle me crie de la rejoindre. Je rougis encore plus et puis bon, ben hop et plouf. Elle nage vers moi, je vois parfaitement son corps dans l'eau claire. Elle se rapproche, finit presque collée à moi. Me dit qu'elle veut me dire quelque chose d'important. Je souris et dis "ouiiiiii???" pendant qu'elle s'accroche à moi et rapproche sa bouche de mon oreille.

"Et le support PHP dans Nvu alors ?!?"

Je me réveille en sursaut, ruisselant de sueur et de terreur. Vivement les vacances.

I hacked the scanner, the tokenizer, the parser, the serializer and Nvu's source view. Here's the result so far: BEFORE (0.70) and AFTER (0.70+).

/* enjoy */

Comments on Bill's interview:

Well, people get confused about browsers. You can have as many browsers as you want on your PC, just like you can have tons of music players and things like that. [...]

Well, people certainly can have more than one browser but that's not what they say they want. They want one, and they want a good, up-to-date AND reliable one. MSIE 6 is not good, not up-to-date and certainly not reliable.

So when people say Firefox is being downloaded onto people's systems, that's true, but IE is also on those systems. Firefox is new, and people are trying it out. There's a certain percentage of people who do that--it's very easy to download.

Oh come on Bill.... MSIE remains on the systems of people who downloaded Firefox only because it's impossible to remove it from Windows. And it's impossible to remove it because you payed for that, not because Justice allowed you to do so.

We need to keep IE the best. We need to innovate in IE, do more add-ons, do improvements. We have some very exciting plans there. Some percentage of users are going to try Firefox and IE side by side, and use the one that's best.

First, your guys need to fix the dozens of critical security holes in this product. Improving the feature set is pointless if just launching MSIE opens your machine wide to viruses, trojans and spywares. Then you'll need to drastically improve the CSS and DOM engines. I can't imagine Chris Wilson is back in MSIE's team for nothing, eh? Then, finally, you'll add all the features that people want. Eventually, you'll end up with a new free version of MSIE, exactly the contrary of what you tried to achieve when you announced the end of MSIE some time ago.

So no big problem; it's not that people have stopped using IE, it's just we've got lots of good ideas that can match and move ahead.

Bill, please, stop the propaganda. More and more people every day stop using IE. And all the stats in the world show it. They would remove IE from the system if they could because it's one of the biggest computer-related security holes in the world with Outlook product line. By the way, we also have an answer for that one, and that's called Thunderbird.

In terms of our agility to do things on the browser, people who underestimated us there in the past lived to regret that.

Yes, we all remember how the first IE team went from 1 to 8 to 80 people in less time I need to write it. We all know you can do it again. You have the guts for that, the money, and the people. You certainly have the agility too. But you have two problems other browsers don't have : (a) backwards-compatibility with IE 6, good luck on that one (b) the people who "lived to regret that" are still here, and their technology too.

Bill, please accept my present for 2005. Yes it's a quote. Yes, it's in french. Oh right, right, you don't see the [fr] mention before the quote... And your browser probably won't display the double-quotes around it. Hey, are you using MSIE to browse the web? You should try a browser...

Il n'y a pas d'innovation sans désobéissance. - Michel Millot, november 2000.

Nvu 0.70 is now available to Linspire users through CNR. The usual suspect's mirror is now available too, and 0.70 should also be available from www.nvu.com soon. Extensions for Nvu are available from there. Installation manual is available from there.

Changelog:

• Nvu is now based on Firefox 1.0 codebase! Many thanks to Benjamin Smedberg for his crucial help.
• As a side-effect of the above, the Extensions and Themes managers now work correctly. A few extensions are available from there. Developers willing to create new extensions or themes for Nvu need its application ID.
• Help menu entries now correctly launch the browser on Linspire. If it does not, you miss the file /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-ext.
• Linspire, Fedora2/KDE and Windows versions now all display icons for files and dirs in the site manager (thanks Michael Pyne for help on KDE/Qt)
  
• The character set can be changed on the fly and chosen by default in the preferences.
• ™ character added to the Insert Special Characters dialog.
• PHP processing instructions were incorrectly serialized with a leading >?php, this is now fixed
• Publishing a document was firing an alert, it's now gone.
• The Inline Spell Checker is turned OFF by default because it drastically impacts performance when you save a loooong document or switch back from source to normal view.
• Source view enhanced to prepare line numbering (should be available in 0.80)
• On some linux platforms, the Site Manager's sidebar was empty on first launch. Closing and relaunching Nvu made it appear again normally. This is now fixed.
  
• Context-click on the last tab to close it left the tabeditor grey, this is now fixed
• Editing the source view and switching back does not double the contents of the document any longer
• Progress on non-localizable strings although it's still a work in progress (thanks to Flore and Bob for the list)
• Localization uses the composer/locales directory.
• oh, and of course, nvu -edit <url> now launches the app AND opens the requested document Please don't forget /home/glazman/foo.html and C:\home\glazman\foo.html are not URLs... file:///home/glazman/foo.html is a URL...
  

What if we merge/unify the "Save as" and "Publish as" dialogs but, as a side-effect, lose the native filepicker for a XUL one? We have an excellent proposal on the table but it seems to me that the native filepickers on both Windows and Mac OS X are so rich and powerful and well integrated with the whole system we are going to make users scream. I am myself going to scream. So I need users' opinion here. Please, geeks' opinions are useless to me. Try to think as an average Windows or Mac user here. The Mac buddies around me here in Paris would never accept to drop the native Mac filepicker for a XUL one. What do you think ? Please leave a comment.

Big, centered, visible on Amazon.fr: a call for donation to the Red Cross for the tsunami victims. On Amazon.com, business as usual.

• index droit explosé sur les huîtres
• index gauche explosé sur le couteau du gigot
• avant-bras droit explosé en réparant le sèche-linge dont j'ai extrait un kilo de saloperies ; mais bon ça m'évite de racheter un nouveau sèche-linge
• pouce du pied gauche explosé, ne plus se lacher un objet d'un kilo d'un mètre de haut