Monday, January 28, 2008 at 08:32 PM

Firefox 3.0 Native Mac Theme Lands On Trunk

Firefox 3.0’s new default Mac theme showed up today in the current trunk nightly (Minefield). The theme is very similar to Safari’s.

wiki.mozilla.org / Sunday, October 05, 2008 at 01:17 AM

Cross Site XMLHttpRequest Design

Oh, nice. Here’s a high-level design document that describes the new cross-site XmlHttpRequest (their calling it, “XXX”) functionality and ties the other documents floating around out there together. It seems that servers will be able to signal that certain resources are accessible from other domains using HTTP headers or (gasp!) XML processing instructions (PIs). Weird.

bugzilla.mozilla.org / Sunday, October 05, 2008 at 01:10 AM

Bug 389508 – Implement Cross-site XMLHttpRequest

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

webmonkey.com / Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 02:24 PM

The Five Best Firebug Extensions

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

ajaxwidgets.com / Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 10:56 AM

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

Nice badge!

addons.mozilla.org / Sunday, June 08, 2008 at 05:30 PM

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.”

video.google.com / Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 02:42 PM

Code Rush (A PBS Special on Netscape circa 1998)

“Code Rush follows the people of Netscape Communications during an intense period in 1998, when it was all but certain that Microsoft had already won control of the Internet user’s desktop.”

wilsonminer.com / Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 03:21 PM

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.”