I still don’t understand what these messages actually are. And who at Skype made them enabled by default. But let’s just try to solve the problem instead.

For some reason the setting to disable these messages is not in the Preferences dialog of Skype, instead it’s hidden pretty well. Here’s what you need to do.

1. Open Skypes main window (the buddy list).
2. In the top you’ll find the “Show History” button, which changes to a notification counter if you have new unread notifications. As for me, I have 1 unread notification, a dreadful “Mood Message”. Double-click this message and it will open in Skypes chat window.
3. In the chat drawer, right click on “Mood Messages” and select “Chat Notification Settings…”
4. A dialog opens, simply select “Do not notify me” and also remember to check “Mark unread messages as read immediately”.

That should do it.

Problem: I was trying to add a new row plus cells to an existing table on a page. It seems like innerHTML in Firefox strips new rows and cells (tr and td). Example:

<table id="table1">
<tr>
<td><h3>Existing header</h3></td>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
var newRow = document.createElement("tr");
newRow.innerHTML = '\
<tr>\
<td><h3>New header</h3>\
</tr>\
';
document.getElementById("table1").appendChild(newRow);
</script>


This would simply output:
<table id="table1">
<tr>
<td><h3>Existing header</h3></td>
</tr>
<h3>New header</h3>
</table>


…Which is incorrect by web standards and is not much to work with.

Solution: Instead of inserting the new element (the <tr>) after the innerHTML string is added, I did it before. It seems like the browser doesn’t like that we add elements that are strictly associated with tables unless it actually knows for sure that they’ll be added to the correct structure.

This is the simple solution for disappearing tds and rows:

<script>
var newRow = document.createElement("tr");
document.getElementById("table1").appendChild(newRow);
newRow.innerHTML = '\
<tr>\
<td><h3>New header</h3>\
</tr>\
';
</script>


Oh, and my team for the week came up with a really cool update to a certain something that I’m not sure if I should mention right now. Will post more about this later though. It’s a-w-e-s-o-m-e!

The goal for the redesign was to remove non-vital elements from the menu, items that you’re probably not interested in until you know the other stuff anyway. It now shows the username in large letters, along with the reputation meter. If you have enabled your latest twitter messages, and have a description as well, now both will show – not one or the other like it was before. This is true for the IntenseDebate.com profile as well.

Of course I’m going for pixel-perfect, clean, and with fancy effects once you notice them. Hint: The “border” around the avatar is actually a semi-transparent sweet-looking box, and all buttons have fancy :hover and :active effects. All in a single CSS sprite of course. Hope you like it!

This blog is not all about YouTube, I promise.. But this video was just awesome.

Seriously though, I’m proud. The whole team behind WordPress is truly amazing.