Website geekery...

Spent the last few hours (well, time over the last day and a half) installing and configuring Joomla, integrating Gallery2, and migrating my web content into the new site.

The new design for The Bovine Illuminati is by no means exciting (nor is it even without flaws) but it does...

• have all the existing content that the old site did
• work better with a more secure version of Gallery
• integrate my LiveJournal and friends page better (and might even cure the scramble that bad HTML in memes used to do on my friends page)

I'm going to sit back a bit before I go in and build a custom theme for myself (yes, I need the holstein spots back, and many of the images are designed for a white background, which I also want back). Still, not bad for only a few hours.

One would think...

...but apparently not if one is a Windows Media Player developer responsible for Mozilla plugins...

...not that the QuickTime folks at Apple are doing any better.

Both players can play .avi files. The standard .avi mime-type is video/x-msvideo. My server (and my Gallery2 implementation) send the proper mime type when embedding an .avi file.

But...

Neither the Windows Media Player plugin for Windows Mozilla nor the Quicktime plugin for Windows Mozilla list video/x-msvideo as a supported mime-type. Even though Mozilla's documentation says they should.

Piss me off.

There's a workaround (involving finding the file in the pageinfo and downloading it) and a hack (involving changing the plugin registration file, but it didn't work for me). Not happy.