Sorry about the bug

Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on August 24, 2006

Sorry if any of you witnessed the technical difficulties I was having earlier with my blog. There was mis-behaviour in the link between my flickr account and my connect.educause.edu account.

The bug is described here, and was compounded by a bug in Firefox which caused it to crash when trying to edit the source of the bad HTML (but not the WYSIWYG, strangely enough).

Unfortunately the specification of body of blog messages and RSS messages is notoriously under-specified (or implemented poorly, which has the same effect), make bugs like this not obviously the responsibility of any party and thus much harder to fix.

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		Sorry about the bug Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on August 24, 2006 Sorry if any of you witnessed the technical difficulties I was having earlier with my blog. There was mis-behaviour in the link between my flickr account and my connect.educause.edu account. The bug is described here, and was compounded by a bug in Firefox which caused it to crash when trying to edit the source of the bad HTML (but not the WYSIWYG, strangely enough). Unfortunately the specification of body of blog messages and RSS messages is notoriously under-specified (or implemented poorly, which has the same effect), make bugs like this not obviously the responsibility of any party and thus much harder to fix. Blog (WebLog) \| Blogging \| bug \| flickr \| RSS (Rich Site Summary) \| Weblog Tech Stuart's blog Login or register to post comments 3587 reads
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