Archive for May, 2008

Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails

Published by liquid 5 months, 1 week ago in Ruby on Rails. 1 Comment365 views

There was always a mess and confusion around the scaling abilities of Rails.

We’re hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java (another solution is to stick with the Ruby language and move away from the Rails framework).

.. as it was written yesterday on Techcrunch.

On the other hand, David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby On Rails) wrote a post on Loud Thinking (his personal Blog) about the scaling opportunities of the framework.

Well, I am about to dig deeper into this very exciting question and share my experiences.

UPDATE: Just got noticed by Arnold Funken on Twitter:

Element.Update(), flash and IE7

Published by liquid 5 months, 1 week ago in Front-end. 1 Comment351 views

Yesterday I ran into an issue with IE7 again (well, I assume not too many of you are surprised, ehh).

When I was trying to move an element in the DOM (actually update) with an other element’s innerHTML including a flash object, the movie (.swf) forgot to load. Right clicking on the flash file you can see the following message, greyed out:

“Movie not loaded”

This is an example snippet of the code:

<div id="video">
	<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="184" height="140" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="bgcolor" value="999999" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="src" value="/videos/15.swf" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="184" height="140" src="/videos/15.swf" allownetworking="all" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" bgcolor="999999"></embed></object></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("otherElement").update($("video").innerHTML);
</script>

Using IE7, Prototype 1.5 and Flash Player 9 on Windows XP.

This problem does not seem to occur in normal browsers (like Safari or Firefox), they load the movie file perfectly. I thought it would be good to share with others, maybe you guys know a workaround, or I can warn others before they will have to face the same problem.