SharpFang's Journal: generic 2

Yet another sunday passed uselessly. Again reloading forums ten times, programs still pending even though I get less and less time... I should get a life. But instead I still keep dreaming about horses and wasting time.

Oh well, today wasn't completely wasted. I emailed Jens about a bug in the nightlies of Mozgest (Optimoz) and we got on irc together. He taught me how to use DOM inspector and LXR to find function names so I could hook them up to gestures, I even created myself a new gesture to toggle javascript on and off. Useful on popup-ridden PR0N pages.;)

We discussed some new ideas about mozgest. Some of them were accepted, some rejected. Biggest win: after proper packaging scripts are developed, separate packages for root install or user profile install are accepted. Biggest loss: No "disable (without removing) custom gestures". I should design a more visitor-friendly webpage for Optimoz too. Jens thought my comparison of the current webpage to a big, noisy workshop where customers feel quite unsafe, was quite right. We also thought of a good way to force all idiots who don't know there is such a thing as preferences into learning that they are there and mozgest is strongly customisable. Forcing a webpage during first launch after install was discarded as a bad idea. Popping up preferences dialog open on mozgest page seemed much better - after all most people right after installing new stuff would like to tweak it up and see what can they do with it. Oh well, maybe not, maybe it's just my twisted hacker sense that they should.

I think I'll be naaasty while creating the optimoz webpage (WHEN?!) - I'll make it all using a LOT of mozilla-specific tags. (not that Mozilla has any proprietary tags. It just supports much more standards from w3.org than other browsers do :) so it looks SUPERB in Mozilla and LAME in MSIE and I'll leave an item in FAQ:
Q:"Why is this page so ugly?"
A: You're using MSIE or some such crap, don't you? Check Mozilla screenshots

I just curse I picked such a daaamn hard project. Create a school schedule using genetic algorithms. How would a data structure for a single gene of that thing look like?!?

Jens complained that there's not enough feedback ("wishlist") from users. I wonder how seriously he will treat my ideas of adding buttons "Make a wish" and "Submit a bug" to prefs panel. :)