How you could build a search that the fediverse would welcome Mastodon and the fediverse are clearly taking off, bringing in millions of new users, and also organically inspiring a wave of technical innovation that dwarfs...
Call and Response Lots of nice writing out there that either replies to or references some recent posts here. Highlights: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in app store politi...
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 Netsca...
It's the circle of (web) life! Picture Terry Semel holding a little lion cub up in the air with both arms extended. What’s that? It’s the Circle of Life! Well, maybe Circle of Life 2.0? Okay...
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 litt...
Greasemonkey Insecurities Today’s most interesting mailing list posting : Uninstall Greasemonkey altogether. At this point, I don’t trust having it on my computer at all. I would t...
What Firebird Needs My recent ranting about fonts notwithstanding, I’m usually seen by the web development community as a Microsoft apologist. I use (and like using) Windows a...
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 donati...
fixing web pages on the fly I was thinking about the fact that browsers have to fix up a page internally in order to render it correctly if elements are incorrectly nested or are left u...
task-specific browser UIs When Jason asked " Why are Safari and Sherlock two different applications? " it made me realize that what I want is a desktop application, similar to...
review of the Elements, and updates New in Magazine , a review of The Elements of User Experience , JJG’s new book . Yes, he’s a friend. Yes, I (mostly) praise the book. That’s because it’s...
Introducing the Microcontent Client Microcontent is information published in short form, with its length dictated by the constraint of a single main topic and by the physical and technical limita...
Wither K-Meleon? K-Meleon caught my eye a long time ago, but it looks like it hasn’t been updated since forever. If they’d just update it now that Mozilla 1.0 is released, I...
So I'm posting this in So I’m posting this in Mozilla 0.7 , which is the first stable version that’s even remotely possible to use as a primary browser. Although I have to admit tha...
