http://simonwillison.net/2010-10-30T07:41:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-10-30T07:41:00+00:002010-10-30T07:41:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Oct/30/webkit/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.bcherry.net/playground/pushstate">WebKit is Dropping HTML5 &quot;popstate&quot; Events</a></strong></p> Really nasty bug with WebKit’s pushState support, discovered by Ben Cherry from Twitter. popState events get dropped if the user navigates while an outbound network request is in progress. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.quora.com/Twitter-com-2010-Redesign/What-things-do-you-not-like-about-newTwitter/answer/Simon-Willison">A comment from Kevin Cheng on Quora</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugs">bugs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webkit">webkit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pushstate">pushstate</a></p>

2010-03-25T20:09:53+00:002010-03-25T20:09:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Mar/25/issues/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.iamcal.com/issue-tracking/#comment1188"><p>We've got a rule of thumb inside Stamen that issue names must read like imperatives: "improve variable names", "delete blah functionality", "fix broken jimmy-jammers", etc. Nothing focuses the mind of the reporter like being asked to specify what exactly they'd like to see done, and it's much easier for a developer to scan a list with actual tasks right in the sentence construction.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.iamcal.com/issue-tracking/#comment1188">Michal Migurski</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugs">bugs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugtracking">bugtracking</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/issuetracking">issuetracking</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/michal-migurski">michal-migurski</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/stamen-design">stamen-design</a></p>

2010-03-02T09:21:26+00:002010-03-02T09:21:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Mar/2/recursion/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2010/03/01/internet-explorer-global-variables-and-stack-overflows/">Internet Explorer: Global Variables, and Stack Overflows</a></strong></p> An extremely subtle IE bug—if your recursive JavaScript function is attached directly to the window (global) object, IE won’t let you call it recursively more than 12 times. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugs">bugs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-explorer">internet-explorer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recursion">recursion</a></p>

2009-05-01T15:04:51+00:002009-05-01T15:04:51+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/1/jit/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009/04/4-weeks-of-gdb.html"><p>Right now, pypy compiled with JIT can run the whole CPython test suite without crashing, which means we're done with obvious bugs and the only ones waiting for us are really horrible.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009/04/4-weeks-of-gdb.html">Maciej Fijalkowski</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugs">bugs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jit">jit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jpython">jpython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pypy">pypy</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/testing">testing</a></p>

2008-06-19T18:09:13+00:002008-06-19T18:09:13+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/19/when/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://allinthehead.com/retro/328/when-bugs-collide-fixing-text-dimming-in-firefox-2">When Bugs Collide: Fixing Text Dimming in Firefox 2</a></strong></p> Handy tips from Drew on fixing the glitchy text rendering in Firefox 2 when you animate opacity without breaking alpha-transparent PNGs in IE6. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/browsers">browsers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugs">bugs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css">css</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/drew-mclellan">drew-mclellan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox">firefox</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox2">firefox2</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ie6">ie6</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jquery">jquery</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/opacity">opacity</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pngs">pngs</a></p>

2008-05-30T09:54:05+00:002008-05-30T09:54:05+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/30/radiacnet/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://radiac.net/diary/id/1257/">Obscure bugs revisited: IE, HTTPS and plugins</a></strong></p> Filed for future reference: IE breaks mysteriously if you serve it up plugin content (e.g. Flash) over HTTPS with a no-cache header—it deletes the file from cache before the plugin software gets a chance to open it. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugs">bugs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/caching">caching</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flash">flash</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/https">https</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-explorer">internet-explorer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/plugins">plugins</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-terry">richard-terry</a></p>

2007-08-16T11:21:55+00:002007-08-16T11:21:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/16/operation/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2007/04/13/operation_aborted">Operation Aborted</a></strong></p> Another fantastically obscure IE bug: appending new elements to the HEAD element breaks if a BASE tag is present. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugs">bugs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-explorer">internet-explorer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/operationaborted">operationaborted</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/shauninman">shauninman</a></p>

2006-12-02T14:10:25+00:002006-12-02T14:10:25+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/2/using/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://notes.natbat.net/2006/12/02/haslayout/">Using hasLayout to fix bugs in IE</a></strong></p> With illustrative screen shots. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bugs">bugs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/haslayout">haslayout</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-explorer">internet-explorer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/natalie-downe">natalie-downe</a></p>