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I’ve been posting on twitter and ignoring my blog for some time now. In the meantime Disqus-generated comment spam has been annoying me. So, I’m disabling comments for now. If and when I start to really manage this blog properly I’ll probably turn them back on. Till then I’m easy to contact if you have something to say.
Have a nice day.
A useful web-tier debugging technique is to take a snapshot of a given page (i.e., saving the HTML and Javascript and CSS and images locally, serving them up w/ your local webserver) as this facilitates very rapid test and iterate cycles. However, properly saving the full set of files is something at which vanilla Firefox, well, sucks. Enter the “Save Complete Page As” add-on. Its dependency checking is much more robust, and the local snapshot you download is much much more likely to look and behave the same as the real thing.
For example for the Upromise visitor home page, the built-in FF “Save Page As” option resulted in an ugly, incomplete mess consisting of 20 files. The add-on “Save Complete Page As” option resulted in a perfect copy consisting of 95 files. (The performance issues of a page which requires 95 files is another story… but it illustrates the huge difference.)
This add-on is configurable too, e.g. to save iframes and even to try and correct links (which feature I can’t vouch for.)
Anyway webdev and QA types may get some mileage out of this one.
Cheers
This happens to me all the time; I accidentally enter the wrong username into a form field, and then every time I come back to that site my browser suggests this wrong value in the autocomplete dropdown list. To delete a given entry from the autocomplete dropdown, simply:
- Type in the form field until the dropdown appears
- Use the up or down arrow to move to the entry to be deleted
- Press Shift + Delete in FF (or just Delete in IE)
That’s it, the bad autocomplete option is gone.
