Better yet, kick the scan off in the background while the data is being entered data into the form and reject the post if necessary when the "Preview" or "Submit" button is clicked. If you really feel the need to do this, which the Slashdot team obviously does, it would be much quicker and less annoying for users do the scan at a faster rate without the two or three retries currently used.
What's so irksome about it is that it's a straight SYN scan done very slowly that impacts any users that have a firewall that DROPs packets with an apparently inexplicable delay of several seconds. I'd have to go digging through my logs to get the complete list, but I'd guess there are about a dozen ports checked in total. The ports scanned are all common default ports for web proxy applications like Squid's :3128, various ":8080" type combinations and such like. Still not scared? Then you might survive extension-writing long enough to get around to the RDF stuff. Now to make that clusterfuck do anything, you have to use a dialect of Javascript that makes COBOL look terse. So far I've only named the bare minimum necessary to make a UI that does nothing. Want to display an image? XUL doesn't have the tag, or a box model with sufficient control to embed a background image, but hey you can use "list-style-image"! Oh and since it's XUL you get to have fun with overlays, which are like includes except they work in an XML/XSLT way.Īt this point, I'd like to mention the average human brain can only hold 7 items in short term memory at once. You can keep your CSS too - along with getting to learn a metric assload of browser extensions to the syntax and creative ways to hack the existing vocabulary to get results. Actually, you can keep the HTML in addition. Take away all the HTML you know and replace it with XUL, a completely different XML language with a different box model.
But as a FF extension writer, you don't get the luxury of preserving your sanity. If this were Chrom(e|ium) you could stop reading here this is how their extensions work. Let's imagine for a second that you're writing a HTML web page with some scripting. Why do FF developers hate their own extension framework dammit!?
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