I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…

Today, Rodrigo Ghedrin wrote the very well-intentioned, but incorrectly-titled, “ I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla ”. As he correctly summarizes,...

It's still a Phoenix

Before it was called Firefox, or Firebird, Mozilla’s lightweight browser was known as Phoenix. An appropriate name, given than it rose from the ashes of...

Is Pidgin the Firefox of IM?

Pidgin , formerly GAIM, is the best instant messaging client available; It works with all common IM networks, supports extensions and customizations through...

A History of the Google Office

In describing Google Apps for Your Domain as “Google Office”, I was somewhat deliberately making reference to all the conversations that have happened in the...

Uncanny Prescience

The E4X support I’d mentioned in my web trends predictions post has just shipped as part of Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 . Though the the release notes track a little bit...

The Laziest Web

I didn’t even have time to blog my lazyweb request for the idea, and Alan Taylor’s already built it. His del.icio.us comments bookmarklet shows you notes that...

Free the User Agents!

I’ve always thought that a user agent (the software that decodes a web page so that you can work with it) should be able to do whatever it wants. In the same...

Attention CSS Gurus

Okay, here’s an important feature request that I have, either for someone to code as a stylesheet or (assuming no browser supports the necessary level of CSS...

Upon the demise of Netscape

Now that Netscape’s more or less officially dead, it occurs to me that it might be worthwhile for Google to bankroll the Mozilla Foundation , either by donating...