http://norman.walsh.name/2005/02/06/viewSource 8 15 2005-02-06T09:46:03-05:00 $Date: 2005-09-11 10:27:02 -0400 (Sun, 11 Sep 2005) $ Norman Walsh 2005 Norman Walsh From the “I would if I could” department. My lastest apt-get update/apt-get update dance included an update to Firefox. One of the sweetest things about Debian (and its derivatives, I'm sure) is how painless it is to keep your system up-to-date. The update/upgrade dance just works. So I was somewhat surprised by what happened this morning. I was reading Pushing String and thinking, not for the first time, that my site's design is pretty un-inspired. Eve Maler 's got all these rounded corners and mouse-over effects and stuff and yet it's all still clean and readable. (Designs that trade style for substance get no cred with me.) And I wondered, just how hard would it be to tweak the CSS on my site to do stuff like that? “Use the source, Luke!” So I click my way to “View Page Source” and what do I get? That I couldn't view the source because of an XML error in a XUL file that I'd probably need to view the source of in order to fix just struck me as amusing. Turns out, all I had to do was quit Firefox and restart it. Upgrading running applications is asking for trouble sometimes, I suppose. But even that usually just works. The time I could have spent viewing the source, however, I've now spent writing this. So no new design today.