Zac Bowling’s Blog

Been a busy week, my first week here at Match.com. I love it! Scooters to get around the office, casual dress, great people, free starbucks coffee/breakfast/lunch/soda, and a bunch more. It couldn’t get any better. My job is challanging and very stimulating.

I’ve been working and building a new gtkembedmoz for win32 whenever I get a chance. It takes so long to build mozilla that it takes a while to fix just one little bug. (mostly enviromental hacks and not accutal code hacks to make things work on windows). I have a fix for those binary compatablity issues. Should make it so we don’t have to roll our own GRE and we can use the Mozilla and Firefox ones. (even though its not porper to use the Firefox one because its a striped and not shared GRE but gtkembedmoz doesn’t use anything that isn’t provided in Firefox’s GRE) That means the installer with the GRE can drop by about 8-9mb since all you will need is just the gtkembedmoz.dll to make it work (may have to included a dll for each major version though since some apis are not frozen and do changed but thats not to bad). The cool thing is that NVU can use my fixes to make NVU smaller by 11mb for win32 as well. I’ve also fixed crashing issues and a memory leak I created in my last testing version with the new SSL and Mozilla plug-in support. Should have it released sometime next week (crossing my fingers for thursday) because I want it to be perfect for both Mozilla 1.7.x and 1.8.x and Firefox 1.0.x.

More to come!