Posts in: Firefox
- The Pencil Project, Prism and the browser as platform
- The Pencil Project extension brings the power of prototyping and simple GUI development to Firefox 3. It takes advantage of Firefox’s Gecko rendering engine for an easy-to-use application for making layouts. You can import bitmap images, add rich text or plain text, and when you’re done, export your drawing as a PNG file. One downside: it [...] [24 Jul 2008]
- Web Standards Project releases Acid3
- Three years after the Acid2 test was released, the WaSP has developed Acid3. What’s Acid? It’s a reference test designed to help browser developers determine whether they are complying with W3C specifications, and how well they handle invalid code. Acid1 and Acid2 tested for compliance with CSS 1 and CSS 2 specifications. Acid3 also tests for [...] [3 Mar 2008]
- Sniffing users’ browser history and Firefox extensions to stop it
- Go read Niall Kennedy’s post about using JavaScript to sniff a user’s browser history. It’s an inventive use of your user’s browser history, though I suspect it could potentially be used — in combination with cookies and logins — to detect which of your users are also regular porn surfers. With that little bit of fearmongering out [...] [8 Feb 2008]
- Mozilla is readying for the mobile web
- Sure the iPhone has its spiffy little web browser / SDK (Safari), but that mean bupkiss for the rest of us. What can we do? That’s where Mozilla comes in. Via Ajaxian: Mike Schroepfer’s post Mozilla and Mobile. According to Schroepfer: Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2. This means we [...] [10 Oct 2007]
- Using Amazon S3 for hard drive backups
- After reading Baratunde’s heart-wrenching post about losing an entire terabyte of data, including recordings of his late mother, I decided it was time for me to investigate some backup solutions. I half-assedly make DVD backups of my blog data and important files. But that stuff changes so frequently that a DVD system is really inadequate. An [...] [17 Sep 2007]
- My new favorite Firefox extensions
- Four groovy picks to enhance your Firefox experience. Pearl Crescent Page Saver ScreenGrab! Save PNG screen captures of any page loaded in your browser window. Capture a page, a window, or a selection. Gmail Manager Not to be confused with GMail Notifier, Gmail Manager allows you to check multiple accounts for new messages, and provides a preview of [...] [9 Aug 2007]
- Links for 2007-04-30
- Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 release notes Microsoft opens up on Web strategy at Mix07 [30 Apr 2007]
- Firebug security update
- UPDATE: There’s an even better fix for this exploit. Update to version 1.04. If you’re using the Firebug extension for Firefox, upgrade to 1.03 immediately. A zero-day exploit was found in the extension and has been fixed. [5 Apr 2007]
