Mozilla Ubiquity is another little project in progress over at Mozilla Labs. It provides a command line interface to the web… well a very small part of it anyway. They released an early alpha version a couple of days ago so I thought I’ll give it a go.
It comes as a Firefox extension that currently works in Windows, OSX (requiring another software download) and partially in Linux. Once you’ve installed the extension you can press ctrl+space to call up a little console. Read the rest of this article »
Mozilla have a new project brewing in their labs called Snowl. It is supposed to be An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser
They call it a conversing
tool. Its purpose is to help us follow and participate online discussions by helping us keep track of all our conversations.
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I’m putting up all tools ans scriptlets I make for helping me with web developmet up on my Software & Web Development site at http://t.prosignia.net/
Check ‘em out. You might find them helpful.
Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 has been released to the wild. The ACID2 test could not be reached for a good while after ie8 was released. I guess everyone who downloaded was running the test. While it does seem to pass the ACID2 test (provided you OK the ActiveX dialog box), it still fails on some CSS 2.1 tests in the W3C CSS 2.1 suite.. I couldn’t run as many of the test I wanted, as IE takes up around 95-99% of CPU time on the test list page. Read the rest of this article »
Well, it would appear that microsoft is realising it made a mistake in choosing version targeted quirks mode as the default for Internet Explorer 8. I guess they didn’t anticipate the uproar from developers, and so decided to do a U-Turn and enable standard compliance mode by default. Read the rest of this article »
In a previous article I showed you how easy it is to create a constrained fluid layout i.e. one with a minimum and maximum widths. While this works on all standards compliant browsers, it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer 6. Read the rest of this article »
When I was looking for a way to highlight the author comments in this wordpress template I was creating, I had a search on google. Most of the results were Read the rest of this article »
Microsoft are looking to punish web users and developers by releasing another broken version of internet explorer in its 8th incarnation. They say they are helping people by not making it standards compliant, that people want things to remain the same. Well, web developers have to work bloody hard to make sure their content looks nearly as presentable in IE as it does in standards compliant browsers.
They say that if they start following standards, the web pages of their current userbase will no longer look right. That’s the same argument they’ve been using since version 6, and if they carry on, the issue will still remain in 10 years time. Read the rest of this article »
If you edit any of the wordpress system files or even just the functions.php of a template, make sure there are no spaces before the <?php or after the ?>.
If you do, it’ll just cause you grief. Some pages will be visible while others will have the following error:
Cannot modify header information - headers already sent
I guess it happens because functions.php is included before it sets the http headers. I haven’t looked at the code enough to figure out where the header is written, so no leading or trailing spaces in wordpress system php files!
Users of the web all have different screen sizes, and not everyone uses the browser in the maximised state, especially those with large screen sizes. There are also a wide variety of portable devices with web browsing capabilities e.g. the Nokia n800, n810 and of course the iphone. Even many of the Portable Read the rest of this article »
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