Ryan Tomayko

alandipert's ncsa-mosaic —

The sources for NCSA Mosaic v2.7 — one the first graphical web browsers (1993) and certainly the one that led to the World Wide Web as we know it — can now be found on GitHub.

You can even run it on a modern Linux. Here’s what the GitHub homepage looks like:

The team that built NCSA Mosaic (Marc Andreessen et al) would go on to create Mosaic Communications Corp., which eventually became Netscape Communications Corp., which open sourced the Mozilla browser, leading to Firefox.

I wonder if any of the original NCSA Mosaic code still exists in any form at mozilla.org.

The Mosaic Wikipedia entry has a thorough history.

Bug 389508 – Implement Cross-site XMLHttpRequest —

Just landed on mozilla trunk a few days ago. See the draft spec for specifics.

Why Ogg Matters —

Interesting. This is the first time I’ve seen mention of Firefox shipping with Ogg Vorbis and Theora built-in. That could definitely change the horrible pace of adoption we’ve seen thus for.

The Five Best Firebug Extensions —

Awesome. I didn’t even know there were such things as Firebug Extensions.

Firefox 3 optimized builds for G5 / Intel —

Right on time.

[The entire web is] Best viewed with [anything but any] Internet Explorer based browser —

Nice badge!

Firefox Add-on: AmIOnMySpace.com —

“This plugin will alert you if you accidentally stumble onto MySpace.com, and take you back to the site you came from.”

Mozilla Firefox 3 RC1 —

And I was just starting to get used to the Minefield icon… I’ve been running the nightlies for about three months now and FF2 is really feeling a bit like legacy software.

Vimperator —

Make Firefox like Vim. No, like, insanely like Vim. Not just h,j,k,l mappings but everything. Looks like it’s been around for awhile. I’m not sure how I missed it.

Firefox 3 nightly builds shipping w/ FreeBSD's malloc(3) implementation —

“The reason we are integrating our own allocator is that we’ve found jemalloc to be better than all the default allocators of our three main platforms (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux)”

9 Practical Ways to Enhance your Web Development Using the Firefox Web Developer Extension —

From the comments: “the only things i find [useful] in Web Developer Extension is the shortcut to clear cache… for other things i use Firebug…” — Me too!

Tab Control —

Lightweight Firefox extension that causes new tabs to open to the right of the current tab. Works with Firefox 3.0 betas and nightlies with extension compatibility checking disabled.

Modern Firefox Theme That Looks Like Netscape 3.0 Running On Windows 3.1 —

This is pretty funny. Even the options dialogs are themed.

The problem with pixels —

“… anybody who’s ever built out a relatively complex design using ems will agree that at some point they wondered if the benefit was really worth the effort.”

Prism Prototype Now Available on Mac and Linux —

That was quick. IMO, the Mac needs this application more than other platform’s (including Windows) because of its document oriented application switching.

Prism —

Mozilla Labs finally puts some lipstick on WebRunner. This is extremely important to me.

NoSquint: Firefox Extension —

NoSquint remembers your text zoom level per site, so you will only need to adjust text size once for each site that uses text that is too small for your eyes.

Bug 332174 – Drop SOAP support [bugzilla.mozilla.org] —

RESOLVED FIXED

Growl Notifications Firefox Add-on [addons.mozilla.org] —

Perfectly done.

Implement getElementsByClassName [bugzilla.mozilla.org] —

Awesome. Robert Sayre just checked in his document.getElementsByClassName implementation to mozilla trunk.

Can't save in Google Docs? Disable Firebug! —

Grrrrr. This has been driving me crazy for almost two weeks. I don’t understand why the main google search doesn’t include google groups – I thought the whole point was to put everything behind a single search box. Bha.

Firebug 1.0 Beta Screencast —

Holy… This is big. Huge big.

Getting started with extension development - MozillaZine Knowledge Base —

dangerous waters…