Yet another Spider update is available The major change is to script-loader.js which no longer uses the subscript loader to load external user hook functions.

After a great week in Mountain View with the rest of team I returned to find that not all was well. When I tried to boot my trusty Dell Precision, nothing happened. Upon inspection, I found the video card had been pushed in and “bent”. I have been assured that no unauthorized vacuuming occurred during [...]

I sit here typing this on a 4+ year old Dell Precision while my trusty 3+ year old IBM Thinkpad stands by waiting for me to hit the road. The Dell has never needed a repair while the Thinkpad has been to the shop once. I like the Thinkpad so much, I even went for [...]

I updated the DOM Test Suite to use the latest JsUnit and reran the full set of tests to determine which assertions are still being fired. The test results are nothing new from what I can tell and are probably already included in the mochikit version of the DOM Test suite. The assertions are relatively minor and known. Assertion Count Test [...]

Yesterday, Pratap Lakshman of Microsoft announced the publication of the first draft of “JScript Deviations from ES3″ The document covers not only JScript as implemented in IE, but JavaScript as implemented in Firefox, Opera and Safari. This should make for some interesting reading! Thanks Pratap!

Assert This! - Top Site Assertions, October 27, 2007 No matter where you go, Jesse’s been there already. During some top site testing of about 7,500 pages with a debug Minefield build on Linux over the weekend, I ran into the following assertions ordered by decreasing count. This should give some idea of the frequency of each [...]

Spider 0.0.2.11 removes the auto update functionality due to bug 378216. You will need to update Spider manually until such time as I have a secure method for automatic updates.

Yet another Spider update version 0.0.2.10. This version reworks the external script loader used to load user hook scripts to work around issues with the Gecko 1.8 branch and trunk. Due to changes in how eval works on the trunk, the previous version 0.0.2.8 changed from using XMLHttpRequest to load external scripts and scope.eval to [...]

Spider 0.0.2.8 replaces the use of scope.eval(...) with JSSubScriptLoader to work around recent changes to eval on the trunk.

My shell account at Dreamhost was compromised and this site was vandalized. It appears this was a wide spread event and a number of other sites hosted at Dreamhost were affected. If you have an account at Dreamhost, I recommend you change your passwords for your shell and email and check your web content for [...]