Posts Tagged: Mozilla
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 - 29 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 … read more »
Cairo Corners in Firefox 3
Posted by on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 in - 6 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 … read more »
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 … read more »
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 a long … read more »
Firefox 1.0: Coming Tuesday November 9, 2004
Posted by on Saturday, November 6, 2004 in - 8 comments
Firefox 1.0: Coming Tuesday November 9, 2004 • (full-size mozilla.org screenshot, for the ages)
SpreadFirefox.com Likes Me
Posted by on Saturday, September 25, 2004 in - 9 comments
Being as humble as I am, it can be difficult for me when I’m showered with praise. However, it does soften the humility blow when the praise is written cleverly and with wit. Such is the case in my selection as Volunteer of the Week at SpreadFirefox.com. • SpreadFirefox.com, is a community site …