Seeing as the Sage Blog at http://sage.mozdev.org/blog/ is pretty much dead (The last entry is dated 27 January 2007), I decided to create a new one. Rather than mixing Sage stuff with Wizz RSS stuff, I’ll blog about what I’m busy doing with the Sage port to Firefox 3 here – http://sage.blat.co.za/ For those...
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Sage for Firefox 3
Today, mainly because I was bored at work and had nothing better to do, I started porting Sage 1.3.10 to Firefox 3. It seems as if Peter Andrews, and the rest of the Sage Team, have abandoned Sage. So seeing as a number of people still use Sage (And many seem to be whining...
2.9.4: More bugfixes
Thanks to everyone who has been testing and reporting bugs. I appreciate all the feedback. It goes a long way to helping to make Wizz RSS better and more stable. Right, 2.9.4 has been patched to fix six more bugs, and they are as follows: - Thanks to BlueHawk for reporting this one: When...
A few more fixups
I have patched the 2.9.4 code with a few more fixups. Firstly, I have tied the Category/Feed tree into the Places tree code correctly. Before the patch, the code was tied into the Places tree code from 3.0b2, which was causing all sorts of funny little problems. Tying the Category/Feed tree into the Places...
OPML import/export bugfix
Thanks to vistatech, I’ve just patched 2.9.4 to fix an OPML export bug. Ampersands in the feedHome attribute were not being escaped correctly when the OPML was exported. Of course this was causing a problem when trying to import the exported OPML. If you’ve been having trouble importing OPML you exported from Wizz RSS,...
2.9.4 for Firefox 3.0b4
At last I’ve finished porting everything to Firefox 3 Yeah, even the Save Feeds to Server and Restore Feeds from Server should now be working. I have also hooked the context sensitive help into the new online help at http://www.wizzrss.com/helpwiki. The new online help still needs loads of work to get it complete, so...
Wizz RSS Lite submitted to addons.mozilla.org
The latest version of Wizz RSS Lite (2.9.4) has been submitted to addons.mozilla.org. It is currently in the sandbox, and can be found at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6759 Changes in the latest version of Wizz RSS Lite: - At long last, I’ve finally completed porting the Save Feeds to Server and the Restore Feeds from Server functionality...
Getting rid of item description accumulations
There was a bug in 2.9.3 that was causing item descriptions to be accumulated. The code for 2.9.3 has been patched to fix the bug, but you might still be sitting with HUGE loads of junk in your local instance of wizzrss.sqlite Here is an easy way to get rid of the rubbish accumulated...
HTML sanitization bugfix
A bug, reported by ces, which affected both Wizz RSS and Wizz RSS Lite has been fixed. You can get a fixed version of Wizz RSS 2.9.3 here – http://blat.co.za/XPIs/wizzrss293.xpi You can get a fixed version of Wizz RSS Lite here – http://blat.co.za/XPIs/wizzrsslite.xpi
HTML sanitization bug
There is some code in Wizz RSS that sanitizes any HTML contained within the item description and/or item content. The sanitization process removes any JavaScript from the HTML that might be malicious. There is a bug in the sanitization process that is causing the item descriptions and/or item content to accumulate. I have fixed...