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  OK, what the actual HELL is going on with FIREFOX 155.0.1? The one on my Mac Mini point-blank refuses to load style sheets and shows related error messages. The one on my Air works absolutely fine. Yes, same version.

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  So my Firefox 155 on one of my computers suddenly refuses to load all kinds of files, among which all style sheets, citing CORS errors and whatnot. On my other computer it works fine. Turning off my usual combo of AdBlock + Ghostery solves the issue (both must be disabled for most sites) ... but can anyone please tell me what the effing eff is going on? I don't even understand enough to formulate a search query. Some technical terms would be greatly appreciated.

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  Spent the entire day writing. It'll take some more time, but eventually I'll have a nice two-parter to publish.

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  If an AI reads all articles on your site, how long does that process take? Does it make more than one HTTP request for the HTML page itself (discounting CSS, JS, images, and such)? I always assumed the AI would download the text (or the full HTML) and put it somewhere in memory to read from it as required, but is that true? Any pointers would be appreciated.

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  @pndc Thanks. But if Grok hits your site after a relevant query, it apparently doesn't do a last-modified check, and ... it seems from your reply that it downloads way too much data. Any idea why that is? I'm trying to avoid the conclusion that it's just sloppily programmed, and assume that there's actually a reason.

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  @pndc And the good ones don't. Interesting.

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  Books aren't dead About twenty boxes of books were thrown onto the street from my apartment building. That made me sad, but I’m not going read 98% of them. But they were taken anyway, and quickly. Books aren’t dead. They’re just sleeping. https://quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2026/0921-books.html

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/117324074423173760 Shark related to schurk. I did not know that.

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  An example of a website being irrelevant bullshit that happened to trigger me. Why didn't a UX designer pull the emergency break? https://quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2026/0813-irrelevant.html

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  Back in the nineties it was decided that all websites should be free. Part of that was the absence of easy payment methods, part was FOSS influence. Are there any other important causes? Also, is there a good overview article somewhere?

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  RE: https://mas.to/@fossunited/117156012475787644 Is this good or bad for the Web? I'd argue it's good.

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  Related to the recent "what-did-Chrome-do-shipping-all-these-ugly-interest-invokers-they-must-be-evil-oh-wait-no-i-think-i-have-the-experimental-flag-set" flap: Would it be a good idea if browsers showed a clear "Experiments Engaged" message in their toolbar or somewhere if the experimental flag is engaged? I know from my QuirksMode testing days that this can be really really tricky to remember and a big, user-friendly visual might help.

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  Test to see if the bsky bridgy thingy still works with Eurosky.

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  It's revealing that my default name for a new layer in Gimp is now NEW FUCKING LAYER. Speaks of frustrations past.

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  What type is a CSS counter? There is no type <counter>. It sure as hell isn't an <integer> (that's what I want, but it seems there's no easy way of converting it) or a <number>. <string>? Something else? No type at all? I am learning to hate counters.

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  @hdv @torgo I planned on being with the meet-up tonight to say Hi, but unfortunately the train chaos makes it very hard for me to come. So I'm afraid it'll be another time.

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  @Edent@mastodon.social How does this compare to last year?

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  The second part of my column-filled grid idea: why the original idea doesn't work very well but is nonetheless the least bad option right now. https://www.quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2026/0507-cfg2.html

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  I forgot I created an entire media query test suite. Wouldn't be too hard to expand it with a container query test suite. https://www.quirksmode.org/css/mediaqueries/mobile.html

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  RE: https://front-end.social/@html5test/116567074336744419 Only at CSS Day! https://cssday.nl

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  Why is a strikethrough called a line-through in CSS? It's been like that since at least 1998, but I forget every time I need it.

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  Is there a closely-guarded secret to using <dialog> in Safari? Or is it just not working?

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  So the CSS Day ticket prices will go up next week. ... but I don't like the name 'Late Bird". I was thinking of 'Sloth tickets' or 'Slouch tickets', but I don't want to insult my wonderful, remarkable, beautiful, strong, forward-thinking, generous, (though possibly-the-tiniest-bit-slowish) potential attendees. Any ideas for a name?

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  Is the email system breaking down? Just now I went to an art gallery and a board game shop, and both proprietors complained that their mails never arrive any more. Coming home, I discovered a mail I was expecting for days in my spam box, while there was no reason for doing so. Is the pressure getting too high or something? It's getting impossible to mail people.

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  Is a container queryable or queriable?

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  My sister asked me to translate “huppelkuttenhouse” into English. I don’t know. Anyone?

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116442729900708561 Interesting. I didn't know it was ever proposed.

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  I bought a new city bike. After a bikeless period of at least 16 months or so, maybe longer. For the first five minutes I biked like a tourist; all kinds of navigational, Amsterdam bike rule-following, and collision avoidance systems had to come online from their long slumber. But it went better during the next 15 minutes of bike ride. My muscles, unfortunately, are completely atrophied and will need a few weeks to reset. ... pant ...

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  God almighty why is Mastodon so fucking impossible to work with? If I quote-boost my own conference, where can I say that yes this is OK and I in fact want everyone to be able to boost any post from this account? I see zero zip zilch.

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  So it appears that - the content property of ::before doesn't accept integers as a value - it is not possible to convert an integer to a string in CSS Use case: print out values of sibling-index() and a few friends for research purposes.