Last day. Today’s fireworks were from the German team. Germany won again, just like last year, but in my opinion the fireworks from the English team were better. The fireworks from the last day were, however, much better to take pictures:
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
Second day Flammende Sterne 2008. Again I took pictures. This time I was playing around a bit with the exposure time. Yesterday all pictures had an exposure time of 3.2 seconds. Today I was starting with 2.0 seconds but switched then to 2.5 seconds and then soon to 3.2 seconds. I also tried 4.0 seconds, but in my opinion the pictures look best with an exposure time of 3.2 seconds.
Today’s fireworks were by the English team and it was much more impressive than yesterday. But it was more difficult to take good pictures.
Just like last year there is again the firework festival Flammende Sterne very close to us and again I am taking pictures. On the first day (Friday) the fireworks where from the Australian team.
A few days ago I found out that Internet Explorer is important. If you stop using it (either because you cannot use it like me (no windows) or because you have installed a better browser) you easily forget how broken it is. I was writing my album script and checking it if was valid XHTML 1.1. There was still a warning that the mime type was not application/xhtml+xml. So I fixed it and was happy that it was looking like I wanted it to and it validated without any warnings.
A few days later I wanted to show my pictures to someone using Internet Explorer and found out that instead of displaying my valid XHTML 1.1 page it complained about an unknown file type and wanted to download it as a binary. After googling a bit around I found a few articles describing just this problem and it looks like it will not be fixed, even in the next version. Some workarounds are to rewrite the mime type with something like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*MSIE.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.xhtml$
RewriteRule ^/~adrian/2008/.* - [T=text/html]
I really dislike this solution and I will probably go back to serve XHTML 1.1 with the wrong mime type.
So, it seems it is important to use Internet Explorer once in a while to not forget how lucky you are using Linux and some browser which actually works.
