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Just wanted to give a quick update on the Chome ordered list bug that I found. They have patched webkit and released it! And I can attest that the developer channel version I’m running (4.0.249.30) no longer breaks when viewing this test page. The system works!

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21088

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/51201

Official Google Blog

via Picasa 3.5, now with name tags and more.

This is a very cool feature that I’m really excited is now available.  Will probably take a long to time to go through all our pictures, though!

BTW this post is a quickie via the new “Send to” feature of Google Reader that I learned how to make work with Wordpress.

I don’t usually come across bugs in software that have not already been reported, so I thought it would be cool to share this really odd bug I found in Google Chrome a while ago. For some reason when creating a simple Ordered List in HTML and setting the type to Roman Numerals (both lower and upper will break I think), Chrome blows up once you hit the number 2,388!

Check out my test case here: http://stevenolte.com/chrome-ol-bug.html

I’ve seen it crash in v2 and also the latest 3.0.195.10. I did of course report the bug.

Update: galderon pointed out how it’s only happening for roman numerals that are longer than 12 characters (great work Doug!) The lowest number that is greater than 12 characters just happens to be 2,388. Writing a quick Perl script reveals the following additional numbers that would also crash it (but we stop at 4,000 since browsers stop writing the roman numerals at that point):

2388: MMCCCLXXXVIII
2788: MMDCCLXXXVIII
2838: MMDCCCXXXVIII
2878: MMDCCCLXXVIII
2883: MMDCCCLXXXIII
2887: MMDCCCLXXXVII
2888: MMDCCCLXXXVIII
3288: MMMCCLXXXVIII
3338: MMMCCCXXXVIII
3378: MMMCCCLXXVIII
3383: MMMCCCLXXXIII
3387: MMMCCCLXXXVII
3388: MMMCCCLXXXVIII
3488: MMMCDLXXXVIII
3688: MMMDCLXXXVIII
3738: MMMDCCXXXVIII
3778: MMMDCCLXXVIII
3783: MMMDCCLXXXIII
3787: MMMDCCLXXXVII
3788: MMMDCCLXXXVIII
3828: MMMDCCCXXVIII
3833: MMMDCCCXXXIII
3837: MMMDCCCXXXVII
3838: MMMDCCCXXXVIII
3848: MMMDCCCXLVIII
3868: MMMDCCCLXVIII
3873: MMMDCCCLXXIII
3877: MMMDCCCLXXVII
3878: MMMDCCCLXXVIII
3882: MMMDCCCLXXXII
3883: MMMDCCCLXXXIII
3884: MMMDCCCLXXXIV
3886: MMMDCCCLXXXVI
3887: MMMDCCCLXXXVII
3888: MMMDCCCLXXXVIII
3889: MMMDCCCLXXXIX
3898: MMMDCCCXCVIII
3988: MMMCMLXXXVIII


Update 2: The issue report I filed has been assigned. w00t!

A fascinating look into modern Origami.  He actually makes it look easy!

Google is making sure that the future of the Internet is not swayed by lobbyists.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/theres-more-than-one-important-vote.html

This is pretty important, if you have the time please sign the petition.

The white spaces can:

• Pave the way for universal wireless broadband access;
• Extend broadband wireless to rural areas that currently aren’t connected at all;
• Enhance the reliability of public safety communications;
• Enable distance learning for students in remote locations or for whom traditional classroom-based learning is impractical; and,
• Bring high-speed mobile internet access to every high school and middle school in the country.

This update is too cool not to share.  Photosynth has been updated to do some much smoother and smarter transitions.  Check out the video:

Found at:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/14/1231203

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080814/uni-washington-microsoft-research-yet-another-mindblowing-3d-photo-viewer/