WordPress developers spend a great deal of time making their software standards-based. A vanilla install of WordPress will pass the W3C’s validator easily that is until you try to embed flash video. The classic flash embed code includes the non-standard <embed> tag unique to the netscape browsers. However, there are methods of embeding flash with valid markup except that the non-standard behavior of Internet Explorer continues to get in the way. In order to get the same behavior in all browsers a hack like the Satay Method is required. Given that the videos I want to embed are random things from youtube and other sites using a container flash movie won’t work. So the simple work around I’m using is to insert WordPress’s <!–more–> tag and place the video after it. This limits the non-standard code to just the individual post page and it keeps the rest of my website standards compliant.
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Workaround for heavy CPU load in Firefox Beta5
Posted by – May 11, 2008
For the people using Firefox Beta 5 on Linux. You probably noticed a curious bug where Firefox freezes for a moment accompanied by extreme CPU load and disk usage. Well, the problem is that Firefox3′s support for anti-phishing is saved to a SQL-lite database that grows larger than its cache can handle. The fix is to disable the anti-phishing features and delete the files beginning with “urlclassifier” from your profile. After doing this I haven’t had any problems since. The SQL-lite database grows quite large when these problems start occurring, 18 Meg for me.
-rw-r--r-- 1 ebrake ebrake 18M May 11 12:40 ./urlclassifier3.sqlite
