Posts Tagged: Open Source Software
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 …
Distributed Punch in the Face System
Posted by on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 in - 21 comments
Suggestion for a distributed open-source system to fight badness: • The system allows you to enter the name/location of a person who needs to be punched in the face, somewhere in the world (a known spammer, for example). • Then, you see if there is anyone near you that needs to be punched in …
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 …
Gaim Needs You
Posted by on Monday, September 18, 2006 in - 3 comments
The fabulous instant messaging client, Gaim, could use your help. That is, you’re a talented and generous web designer. • With the impending release of Gaim 2.0.0, the Gaim website is in need of an update to be as slick as the application it represents. If you are a web designer that is …
Selecting Columns and Rows in HTML Tables with Firefox
Posted by on Thursday, June 1, 2006 in - 46 comments
Col 1 • Col 2 • Col 3 • Col 4 • Row A • 1A • 2A • 3A • 4A • Row B • 1B • 2B • 3B • 4B • Row C • 1C • 2C • 3C • 4C • Row D • 1D • 2D • 3D • 4D • A random tip, because I find it so handy on rare occasions: • You can select columns, rows, or blocks of …
How to tell if your web-mail system is any good
Posted by on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 in - 12 comments
Commercial Web Mail providers • HotMail • No • Yahoo Mail • No • Gmail • Yes • Open Source Web Mail packages • IMP/Horde • No • RoundCube • Yes • SquirrelMail • Yes • Hula • Yes • Here’s a quick test to see if you web-mail system is any good: • When you first log …
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 »