Posts Tagged: Mozilla
The Long Road to Firefox 3
Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2008 in - 3 comments
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 …
If you're running Firefox 3, enter about:robots into the location bar and enjoy. Nerd.
Posted by on Friday, June 20, 2008 in
The <Video> Tag
Posted by on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 in - 5 comments
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 …
Scaling Images in Firefox 3
Posted by on Thursday, December 14, 2006 in - 25 comments
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 …
Cairo Corners in Firefox 3
Posted by on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 in - 8 comments
The latest alpha releases of Firefox 3 use a library called “Cairo” for much of the graphics work (note: I don’t understand exactly what that means, but it doesn’t matter). • Thanks to this new graphics infrastructure, boxes with corners rounded by the pre-CSS 3 property border-radius are …
Tango Theme for Firefox
Posted by on Thursday, November 9, 2006 in - 5 comments
Garrett LeSage and a group of other good people have completed a nice upgrade of the Tango theme for Firefox 2. The theme brings the icons from the Tango Desktop Project to Firefox along with many improvements in making Firefox look and feel more like a native application on Linux. • There are …
Firefox 2
Posted by on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 in - 7 comments
Since you are on the internet right now (admit it, you are), you are probably aware that Firefox 2 has been released. My congratulations to all involved. While I was much less involved in the visual design this time around, it was still a pleasure to have been involved at all. • The Mozilla.com …
Thunderbird Extension Request: Colordiff for Thunderbird
Posted by on Sunday, April 9, 2006 in - 20 comments
I have a quick Thunderbird extension request for the throngs of aimless developers waiting to build software at my whim. When reviewing changes to a source code repository, such as Subversion or CVS, most tools offer nice syntax highlighting for the “diff” view. • Even on the command line …
The Photoshopping of Firefox
Posted by on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 in - 21 comments
Yesterday’s Firefox launch garnered a lot of press. I noticed a peculiar pattern emerging on some of the news sites. There seems to be a whole weird underworld of hastily-photoshopped graphics for news sites. • Here is a collection of some images from some Firefox 1.0 launch news articles I …
Firefox 1.0 is here!
Posted by on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 in - 16 comments
It is 4:51AM Atlantic time and I am sitting in bed with my laptop on my lap. One minute ago, Ben Goodger gave me the final word and I made this CVS commit to the mozilla.org website: • “ • steven%silverorange.com 2004-11-09 00:50 • People of Earth, I give you Firefox 1.0 • ” • It’s been …