Following the last post on Image Map and HTML5, there has been some interesting development. Namely, the algorithm for dealing with a list of numbers isn’t as simple as it seems.
As a part of the DPS909 course, students were asked to work on Firefox bug #565031. This bug has to do with whether or not different kinds of white space characters should be treated as separators in an image map’s coords attribute. Well, it sounds really trivial — so trivial that fixing it simply isn’t a good use of a developer’s time. Therefore, this is a perfect opportunity for students to take a stab at.
Last week at Seneca’s DPS909 course, students were asked to modify Firefox’s chrome behaviour. I was also supposed to do this and blog about it, but other assignments of high priority simply forced me to procrastinate. Well, that’s no excuse, so here I am, blogging something about it.
As an assignment for the DPS909 course at the Seneca College, I was building Minefield on OS X 10.6.