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John replied on July 18, 2008 22:21 to the discussion "Who's behind the Whale and other Twitter images?" in Twitter:

yeah, apparently people really love that imagery... http://www.savethefailwhales.org/

Todd replied on July 17, 2008 06:05 to the problem "Hide on startup breaks Gmail SSB hide feature" in Fluid:

hm, i'll have to look at that... thx for the heads up.

cawlin replied on July 17, 2008 05:36 to the question "Can we have the option for expose to not touch embedded SSBs?" in Fluid:

Interesting. Well that's good enough for as I don't use spaces at all :)

Todd replied on July 17, 2008 05:33 to the question "Can we have the option for expose to not touch embedded SSBs?" in Fluid:

hey cawlin... originally Embedded SSBs behaved the way you are asking for.. and you can regain that behavior by going to Appearance prefs and changing Spaces behavior to 'window appears in all spaces'.

unfortunately, according to all my testing (and i spent some time on this), spaces behavior is inextricably tied to expose behavior.

so basically, there are two modes:
1. (Normal spaces behavior) embedded ssb sticks to the Space you created it in (which is good), but slides out of the way like all other windows when you activate expose (which is bad). This setting is now the default and allows you to have different ssbs in different spaces.

2. (Window appears in all spaces) embedded ssb will not stick to the space you created it in, but rather appear behind the desktop in *all* spaces (which is bad). however, it will ignore expose and be visible behind the desktop even after the other windows swoosh out of the way (which is good). This used to be the default, but no longer.

the bad news is that i was not able to get both the spaces behavior (stays in original space) and the expose behavior (ignores expose) at the same time...

but at least now you can choose which is more important to you by changing the spaces behavior in the appearance prefs pane.

thx.

cawlin asked a question in Fluid on July 17, 2008 05:21:

Can we have the option for expose to not touch embedded SSBs?

Basically I don't find myself using embedded SSB's because I can't use expose hot corners to view my desktop. Doing so pulls the SSB out of view.

cawlin reported a problem in Fluid on July 17, 2008 05:17:

Hide on startup breaks Gmail SSB hide feature

Here's a weird one. My Gmail SSB has "closing the window only hides" option enabled, and works fine usually. If however in the accounts preferences I choose to start hide Gmail on startup it breaks the "closing windows only hides" feature. Every time I open gmail it reloads.

cawlin replied on July 14, 2008 00:16 to the idea "Safari style SSB icon" in Fluid:

I hope you come up with something a little prettier, I think the safari SSB icons are the ugly.

cawlin reported a problem in Fluid on July 09, 2008 19:50:

Clearing Downloads Cancels Active Downloads

When hitting the clear button in the downloads window it clears everything, including active downloads. This cancels anything currently downloading. Bummer.

Brian Morykon replied on June 30, 2008 14:32 to the question "Gmail WYGIWYG keyboard shortcuts don't work." in Fluid:

Thanks Cawlin. I believe that list only covers gmail's application-wide shortcuts. The ones I'm talking about are the shortcuts that are only active when you are in a textfield. (The only ones I care about are Command-B for bold and Command-I for italics).

cawlin replied on June 30, 2008 08:20 to the question "Gmail WYGIWYG keyboard shortcuts don't work." in Fluid:

Here's a list of the Gmail shortcuts:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/an...

freedm replied on June 27, 2008 19:26 to the problem "Muxtape url pattern may be broken" in Fluid:

oh wow! I knew todd was as cool as I thought he was! Todd, if you read this, you are the man!

Thanks so much

freedm marked one of cawlin's replies in Fluid as useful. cawlin replied to the problem "Muxtape url pattern may be broken".

cawlin replied on June 27, 2008 19:22 to the problem "Muxtape url pattern may be broken" in Fluid:

Todd posted this on my blog :

"I just tried to use Fluid 0.9.2.1 (the latest version just released) with Muxtape, and I see this issue too. I know what is going wrong, and will ship a change to Fluid in the next version to fix it.

Here’s the deal. I made a change in the latest release to *not* execute JavaScript in the offscreen webpage renderer that generates the page thumbnails for the Coverflow view. This is actually a huge performance gain, as *all* JavaScript runs on the main GUI thread... that means you could have the JS for up to 50 webpages all running at once and blocking the UI... making interaction with Fluid often very choppy while the thumbnails are loading.

unfortunately, some sites like Muxtape generate their UI programmatically via JavaScript (Muxtape does this)... its pretty rare, and on the whole I think the change to 0.9.2.1 was def a good idea, and def a keeper. (if you ask me, Muxtap should def not be doing this, but I guess nobody asked me ;0])
Anyhow, it will be easy enough to add a single special case for Muxtape.com in the plugin. I’ll do that in the next release. It may be a week or so until this comes out tho. hold tight. thanks."

A comment on the problem "Muxtape url pattern may be broken" in Fluid:

hrm, so would there be a way to change the delay on the thumbnail rendering, or the url pattern, that could fix it?
Muxtape is probably my favorite SSB right now, and I'll try anything.

Thanks – freedm, on June 27, 2008 18:58

cawlin replied on June 27, 2008 18:24 to the problem "Muxtape url pattern may be broken" in Fluid:

I'm having the same problem ( and a few people posted on my blog with the same issue)

The file hiding changed quite a long time ago. I am guessing this problem has to do with the new way thumbnails render.

cawlin replied on June 20, 2008 06:58 to the problem "Scripts with Gmail : it doesn't work !" in Fluid:

Not that I know of, sorry. There might be one out there, if you find it let me know!

Zep replied on June 20, 2008 05:13 to the problem "Scripts with Gmail : it doesn't work !" in Fluid:

So... is there a list with all compatible scripts ? Thank you !

A comment on the problem "Scripts with Gmail : it doesn't work !" in Fluid:

So... is there a list with all compatible scripts ?
Thank you ! – Zep, on June 20, 2008 05:12

mathowie replied on June 20, 2008 04:21 to the discussion "Who's behind the Whale and other Twitter images?" in Twitter:

This was answered on Ask MetaFilter earlier today. Turns out they are different artists that sold their stuff on iStockPhoto -- their names are listed in that thread I linked.

cawlin replied on June 20, 2008 04:20 to the problem "Scripts with Gmail : it doesn't work !" in Fluid:

Lots of Userscripts are not compatible with web kit, not much you can do about it.