Comments on: Infoholicismeme http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2009/01/04/infoholicismeme/ The odd parity bit Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:26:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Neil Rashbrook http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2009/01/04/infoholicismeme/comment-page-1/#comment-43609 Neil Rashbrook Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:36:28 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/?p=85#comment-43609 I only have 37 wikipedia URLs in my history, and your script selected one of them twice and one of them three times... the second time I evaluated it succeeded in picking 10 distinct URLs. I only have 37 wikipedia URLs in my history, and your script selected one of them twice and one of them three times… the second time I evaluated it succeeded in picking 10 distinct URLs.

]]> By: Alan http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2009/01/04/infoholicismeme/comment-page-1/#comment-43608 Alan Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:44:24 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/?p=85#comment-43608 It's a great script, but unfortunately the output is in ISO-8859-5 and at least a couple of my results were mangled UTF-8 URLs (from Russian Wikipedia). It’s a great script, but unfortunately the output is in ISO-8859-5 and at least a couple of my results were mangled UTF-8 URLs (from Russian Wikipedia).

]]> By: Justin Dolske http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2009/01/04/infoholicismeme/comment-page-1/#comment-43603 Justin Dolske Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:33:38 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/?p=85#comment-43603 Whoops. Didn't realize that wasn't in FF3. Whoops. Didn’t realize that wasn’t in FF3.

]]> By: Daniel Glazman http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2009/01/04/infoholicismeme/comment-page-1/#comment-43602 Daniel Glazman Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:05:20 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/?p=85#comment-43602 Justin, your script seems to fail with FF3.0.x and works only with nightlies : Erreur : uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570018 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570018 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID)" location: "JS frame :: javascript:%20num=10;C=Components;d=C.classes['@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1'].getService(C.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection;q=d.createStatement("SELECT%20url%20FROM%20moz_places%20WHERE%20url%20LIKE%20'http://__.wikipedia.org/wiki%25'");ignore=/^(Special|Talk):/;seen={};w=[];while(q.step())%20{u=q.row.url;n=unescape(u);x=n.indexOf('#');%20if(x==-1)x=n.length;%20n=n.substring(29,x).replace(/_/g,'%20');%20if(!ignore.test(n)%20&&%20!(n%20in%20seen))%20{%20w.push({url:q.row.url,%20name:n});seen[n]=true}}%20h="10%20random%20Wikipedia%20URLs%20out%20of%20"+w.length+"...\n";%20while(num--)%20{%20r=Math.floor(Math.random()*(w.length+1));%20h+="<A>"+w[r].name+"</a>\n";}h+="";%20open('data:text/html,'+escape(h)) :: :: line 1" data: no] Justin, your script seems to fail with FF3.0.x and works only with nightlies :

Erreur : uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570018 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID) [nsIJSCID.getService]” nsresult: “0×80570018 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID)” location: “JS frame :: javascript:%20num=10;C=Components;d=C.classes['@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1'].getService(C.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection;q=d.createStatement(”SELECT%20url%20FROM%20moz_places%20WHERE%20url%20LIKE%20′http://__.wikipedia.org/wiki%25′”);ignore=/^(Special|Talk):/;seen={};w=[];while(q.step())%20{u=q.row.url;n=unescape(u);x=n.indexOf(’#');%20if(x==-1)x=n.length;%20n=n.substring(29,x).replace(/_/g,’%20′);%20if(!ignore.test(n)%20&&%20!(n%20in%20seen))%20{%20w.push({url:q.row.url,%20name:n});seen[n]=true}}%20h=”10%20random%20Wikipedia%20URLs%20out%20of%20″+w.length+”…\n”;%20while(num–)%20{%20r=Math.floor(Math.random()*(w.length+1));%20h+=”“+w[r].name+”\n”;}h+=”";%20open(’data:text/html,’+escape(h)) :: :: line 1″ data: no]

]]> By: Jeff Walden http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/2009/01/04/infoholicismeme/comment-page-1/#comment-43590 Jeff Walden Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:02:01 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/dolske/?p=85#comment-43590 Wait, trust *you*? How do I know this won't set me up for a rickroll on every startup!?!?!? Wait, trust *you*? How do I know this won’t set me up for a rickroll on every startup!?!?!?

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