[Pan-users] Re: The "no-break-space" problem, aka "blank" posts, that shouldn't be

[Duncan]

walt posted on Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:24:35 +0000 as excerpted:

> OTOH, if anyone could explain this diagram to me, I'd be grateful:
> 
> http://github.com/lostcoder/pan2/network
> 
> Well, there's a blog that tries to explain the graph, so I'll go read
> that before I tear my hair out.

Explain a blank page (konqueoror), or a page with a nice big square with 
a no-script icon on it (icecat)?  Sure.  Hovering over the icon says it's 
a flash object.  Since flash is proprietary, I don't have it installed, 
thus the big blank boxes.

I could of course try gnash or swfdec, but while it was awhile ago I 
tried gnash last, I never /did/ get it to do much besides show a more or 
less featureless box (and no-script does that), and while I had better 
luck with swfdec, the compile order between it and icecat/firefox and 
apparently a couple other dependencies had to be /just/ right, or it 
wouldn't work either.  It would thus work (well) part of the time, and 
not work at all, the rest of the time, until I happened to get exactly 
the correct compile and install order right, again.  Unfortunately, the 
usual revdep-rebuild tool used to spot and auto-rebuild changed ABI 
dependencies didn't seem to work here, so eventually I just got tired of 
it and unmerged it, too.

Now if they'd use proper HTML5 instead of the proprietary stuff, icecat 
could present that just fine...

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