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.
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.
Bug 389508 – Implement Cross-site XMLHttpRequest
Just landed on mozilla trunk a few days ago. See the draft spec for specifics.
The Five Best Firebug Extensions
Awesome. I didn’t even know there were such things as Firebug Extensions.
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.”
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.”
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.”