Firefox Extensions Guide

Flexbeta has posted an in-depth guide to a number of the well known, and not so well known extensions available for Mozilla Firefox. It covers close to 30 different extensions, including web developer tools, full application add-ons, existing feature enhancements and more.

 

Read the complete article here.

WEB STYLE GUIDE, 2nd edition

As this is nothing new to me ;) it's a nice reference though: WEB STYLE GUIDE, 2nd edition

Apache Software Foundation rejects Microsoft's Sender ID

Apache would not use a Microsoft technology to fight spam, called 'Sender ID'.

"The current Microsoft Royalty-Free Sender ID Patent License Agreement terms are a barrier to any ASF project which wants to implement Sender ID" according to Apache and Apache further states that the current license is "incompatible with the Apache License 2.0".

It looks like Microsoft is defining its own 'open' internet standard again and tries to take (financial) benefit of a global threat that it created itself by delivering poorly secured software.

Update: Today also Debian announced they cannot implement Sender ID technology as the Microsoft Royalty-Free License Agreement is a barrier to any Debian package which wants to implement Sender ID or include Sender ID support.

Microsoft's Security Program Manager uses Firefox

In this month's Wired Magazine, Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft's Security Program Manager, admits he uses Mozilla's Firefox browser <quote>Just this morning I had to install an update to Firefox to block a flaw that would've allowed an attacker to run a program on my system</quote>.

OK, this doesn't necessarily mean that he doesn't use Microsoft Internet Explorer, and in fact means that Firefox also can contain bugs.

But it does mean that at least 1 person in Redmond found the Start button of his Brain OS :)

Mozilla.org has a website

They always had, but the renewed it. And it looks good!

Check it out here en take a look at the News Feeds too.

More people talking about it:

Asa Dotzler

Ben Goodger

David Tenser

Ten CSS tricks you may not know By Trenton Moss

On The Code Project, Trenton Moss lists 10 very easy and usefull CSS tricks:

1. CSS font shorthand rule


2. Two classes together


3. CSS border default value


4. !important ignored by IE


5. Image replacement technique


6. CSS box model hack alternative


7. Centre aligning a block element


8. Vertically aligning with CSS


9. CSS positioning within a container


10. Background colour running to the screen bottom

Read it al on CodeProject.

Ben Goodger says: "Buh-bye VersionCheck"

Firefox Update web service is being updated, better said: the current service that never worked is being replaced by a brand new one. Quoting Mike Shaver: "it's much faster and smoother than before, ben and vlad did excellent work"

 

Ben Goodger says: "Buh-bye VersionCheck"

Web Development Mistakes - Update

456 Berea Street writes:

 

"There have been a lot of comments on my recent post about common web development mistakes, and thatÂ’s great. Not all comments are of the kind I asked for, but that made for an interesting discussion, which didnÂ’t get completely out of hand."

 

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Wish I were in Japan, in 2010

womby writes "Nihon Keizai Shinbun report (Japanese) that NTT, Fujitsu and the Japanese Government are forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010. 'The Japanese government (the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunication) are going to start a development plan next year that will increase the speed of the internet in Japan to 100 times faster than the current 100MB fibre internet, with partner companies it is aiming for completion by 2010.' A complete Translation is here, if my blog gets beaten into the ground try the Coral Cache Link."

 

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Roderick Howard's CSS Directory

A nice collection of CSS resources (layouts, fonts, lists, navigations,
positioning, hacks, tools, ...)