Acts of Volition

Stephen Horlander over at Mozilla is doing great work on the visual appearance and functionality of future versions of Firefox. See his latest Windows Theme/UI Update.  •  Pixel nerds may remember Stephen from his significant contributions to Firefox 1.0 with the Winstripe and Pinstripe themes.

In what sounds like the worst meeting ever, the US State Department’s Town Hall Meeting to Announce the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) (that’s really what it’s called), a State Department staff member asked this question:  •  “Can you please let the staff use an alternative … read more »

As with every major release of Firefox since 1.0, I’ve had the privilege of working with Mozilla on their website updates for the new Firefox 3.5 release.  •  If you care about web browsers, you already know why it’s awesome, and if you don't care about web browsers, all you need to know is that …

We made a cool tech demo of some new Video features from the upcoming Firefox 3.5 (which is required to view the demo, of course).  •  View the Demo(Firefox 3.5 beta required)

Artist Shepard Fairey has recently become widely known for his iconic Obama posters (featured on the cover of Time magazine). It is much less widely known that he created another iconic image from the tech world.  •  Sometime in 1998, Shepard Fairey created the lizard artwork that became the logo …

With the release of Firefox 3 last month, the Mozilla project, corporation, community, and the open-source software world in general have a great achievement on their collective hands.  •  My involvement with Mozilla began with a weblog post in October of 2003, over a year before the initial …

Brendan Eich, the Canada-loving technical leader of the Mozilla project, has written a piece on The Open Web and Its Adversaries and given a presentation on The Open Web. In addition to a general overview of what it means to have an open web, the post mentions work that Opera and Mozilla are doing …

After making the post about smooth corners in Firefox 3 yesterday, I began to wonder what other smoothnesses (which should be a word) the next version of Firefox might have in store.  •  As I mentioned yesterday, the Cairo graphics library will power the rendering of web pages in Firefox … read more »