110 posts tagged “mozilla”
2004
Mozilla Firefox—Live Bookmarks (via) Whoa! RSS support built in to Firefox, with a very smart interface.
Creating Rich Applications with Mozilla, XUL, and AMP Technology (via) Slideshow in XUL: Mozilla browser required.
Site specific stylesheets in Mozilla
New in Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 3: bug 238099—implement at-rule for matching on site/document URL. Here’s the example:
[... 111 words]Mozilla and XForms. Matt May on XForms in Mozilla.
New features in Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (via) Thunderbird is getting an RSS reader.
What if Mozilla were to win in the end? (via) Evidently bloggers and IE don’t really mix.
Mozilla Adds Undetectable document.all Support (via) Twisty browser compatibility hacks just got twistier.
A Python Sidebar for Mozilla (via) Nice quick reference tool for Mozilla and Firefox.
Tutorial: Creating a Mozilla Extension (via) I spent nearly an hour looking for this the other day with no success.
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Notes. I just installed 0.9 RC 1 on my Mac. It’s prettier than 0.8.
Everything Can be a Link with Mozilla’s window.getSelection() Method and the W3C DOM Range API (via) Impressive is an understatement.
Neowin Interview: Ben Goodger from the Mozilla Foundation. FireFox 0.9 will only be a 4.9 MB download.
Mozilla 1.7 RC 1
There are some interesting tid-bits hidden away in the release notes for the new Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 release. The following in particular caught my eye:
[... 196 words]Optimizing Mozilla Firebird. Hacking prefs.js
What’s new in Mozilla Firebird 0.8. Coming soon
2003
Javascript from Python
In a way I’m disappointed to see python-spidermonkey released. It’s a Python wrapper around the Mozilla project’s SpiderMonkey Javascript engine which allows Python scripts to execute Javascript code in a rock-solid, battle-tested embedded interpreter.
[... 187 words]Donate to the Mozilla Foundation. I’m waiting until after Christmas to see if I can afford $50 for the T-Shirt option.
Nvu
Launched today by Lindows, Nvu is a new project to develop a complete “web authoring system” (aka Dreamweaver/Frontpage style WYSIWYG editor) for the Linux platform. Reading around the marketing hyperbole, What it actually is is a standalone version of Mozilla’s Composer with a whole bunch of improvements and extra features, scheduled for release in early 2004.
[... 413 words]Firebird and Mozilla chrome URLs
Jesse Ruderman (of indispensible bookmarklets fame) now has a blog. It’s off to a good start: here’s a useful summary of the different chrome URLs available in Firebird and Mozilla.
Mozilla 1.5a and Firebird 0.6.1
Mozilla 1.5 alpha is now available for download from Mozilla.org. Changenotes here (it looks like mostly improvements to Composer, but the ability to jump from the javascript debugger straight to the view source line in question could be handy). Asa is promising a new Firebird release soon:
[... 158 words]Netscape R.I.P.
Chances are you’ve heard this already, but Netscape is no more. MozillaZine are reporting that AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they’ve even pulled the logos off the buildings)
. Today is a truly sad day.
Mozilla changes focus
The Mozilla project is shifting focus to concentrate more on standalone apps such as Phoenix and Minotaur. Cool. The full story can be found on MozillaZine, with further details on the Mozilla.org Roadmap. See also comments from Blogzilla and mpt.
Mozilla for bloggers
Matthew Haughey (freshly redesigned) has published a Mozilla advocacy article explaining why Mozilla (and variants) are excellent tools for bloggers. Spot on.
Apple snubs Mozilla
News.com: Apple snub stings Mozilla. Surprisingly comprehensive coverage of the Mozilla communities reactions to Safari. What impressed me was the number of links to weblogs in the news story. It looks like CNET “gets” blogging.
A great year for Mozilla
The MozillaZine Review of the Year 2002 shows just how far the Mozilla project progressed in 2002. From a 0.9.8 milestone in January, the open source browser bounded on past version 1.0 and span off popular sub projects in Chimera and Phoenix (soon to be renamed).
2002
Hide Mozilla Flash ads
Michel: How to hide Flash banner ads in Mozilla using a few lines of CSS added to the userContent.css file. A great example of CSS2 selectors at work.
Phoenix usurps Mozilla
Phoenix 0.4 is out, and it’s so good it has replaced Mozilla as my default browser. Type Ahead Find makes browsing links and searching pages a dream (I’ve really come round to it after my initial whinge) but my favourite feature is the Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” integration built right in to the address bar. Type in a single word and Phoenix will try word.com (and possible word.org/word.net) before passing it on to Google and redirecting to the first search result. Type in multiple words and I’m Feeling Lucky is invoked straight away. Normal Google searches can be run from the smaller Google field to the right of the address bar. It all adds up to a virtually seamless browsing experience, especially now that I’ve memorised the Google URLs of most of my favourite sites.
Mozilla small screen rendering
Yesterday I blogged Opera’s impressive looking small screen rendering technology. Now take a look at this (via Blogzilla). Daniel Glazman has created a Mozilla bookmarklet that does everything Opera’s implementation claims to achieve using a combination of a custom style sheet and the DOM, and the results are impressively similar to Opera’s demonstration. The difference?
[... 104 words]contentEditable in Mozilla
ContentEditable for Mozilla is a hot topic at the moment. The main focus of the debate is this bug on Bugzilla, which gets pretty heated. Blogzilla has a good explanation of the principles behind the disagreement, while Scott Andrew makes an excellent case for copying IE’s implementation:
[... 111 words]Mozilla prefetching
The Mozilla Link Prefetching FAQ (via Blogzilla). Prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future
. Web page authors can turn on prefetching for their pages using a <link rel="prefetch"> or <link rel="next"> element (or the corresponding Link: headers).