I’ve been testing Firefox 3.6 for a couple weeks now. This is just a quick review of a couple new features.
First of all, help Mozilla test Firefox 3.6. This is a pretty stable beta for me and will probably be stable for you. Check it out.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 comes with Personas. It is basically [...]
I was just searching around and I stumbled upon what seemed to be a ghost. I wrote about Save The Developers back in November of 2008. It seems that their website is back up. It looks significantly different, the super tiny javascript drop down is gone too.
The site seems to be trying hard to promote [...]
This morning I was excited to see a new layout on the Google Chrome start page.
The new look is cleaner than the previous iteration. You now get to see eight thumbnails instead of nine. Each thumbnail has a slight gray border and hovered over, it darkens and eventually, about 1.5 seconds in to hovering, a [...]
One thing I’ve heard a couple of times in either a trac ticket or in a forum thread is that we should all switch over to a decrement-style loop. Why? Simply because it’s faster. (We’ll ignore the time it takes to realize that you can actually loop down to zero.)
I’ve wondered if it really made [...]
A while ago I mentioned Ten Grand Is Buried Here, a competition by Microsoft to promote their new version of Internet Explorer. A day or so before it started, the site wouldn’t let other browsers see the hints field, where the tweets go.
Well, the competition has started now and the clues are streaming out of [...]
As a web developer, I understand that many websites need ads to support their income. However, as a user, I understand ads are plain annoying. My father always says he doesn’t mind and likes to at least see them to pretend he’s supporting those ad-supported sites.
Firefox has an amazing addon called AdBlock Plus. This plugin [...]
I first tried Safari 4 on a Windows XP machine and while the Safari-part looked great (with its new Speed Dailesque start page) the top-bar (where the tabs sit) looked horrible.
The Safari 4 tabs on Windows XP in my opinion are the worst design elements of any Apple product I’ve ever seen. Let me describe [...]
I was looking at the Safari 4 Welcome page in Firefox 3, but for some reason, it didn’t work. I was poking around it’s sparse html and thought I was looking for a quick time movie. I was wrong.
You’ll find this in the source:
<div id="safari">
<div>
<video id="compass" src="http://images.apple.com/safari/welcome/media/compass.mov" width="256" height="256">
<img src="http://images.apple.com/safari/welcome/images/safari.jpg" width="200" height="200" alt="Safari 4" />
</video>
</div>
</div>
That’s [...]
I was searching for large Firefox Icon PNGs the other day and I stumbled across this site. It takes huge to the extreme and turns our friendly firefox icon into a giant 4000px by 4300px image. Of course, it’s not really that amazing because you can resize any vector graphic without distortion. Still though, to [...]
I needed the five major browser icons for a little project I was working on. It turns out that while people have made their own icon sets for most of the browsers, the browser vendors (Mozilla, Apple, Mircosoft, etc) don’t have much out there for people to use.
Luckily, Google Image Search to the rescue. I [...]