• Sep 15, 2004

    Things I have to do

    Same old story - too much to do, too little time.

    To-do list:

    • Find out why the virtual server hosting this site is crashing (this explains the intermittent downtime).
    • Blog an average of 2 entries in 3 days for Forever Geek, where I am now a contributing writer.
    • Study and pass SCJP exam.
    • Learn how to play the guitar.
    • Finish reading the Vampire: Dark Ages Clan Novel series (I'm currently at Brujah, book 8 of 13).
    • Fix a client's website. Make some backend changes.
    • Get more involved in WordPress development. (Anyone know where to get WordPress from Subversion? Or is getting from CVS still current?)
    • Blog more often here.
    • Update my About page, and bring back the Archives page.
    • Get to work on this Mozilla-related website I've been thinking of doing.
    • Finish watching all this unwatched anime: Berserk, Last EXILE, Kenshin, Kiddy Grade, Hunter X Hunter.
  • Sep 15, 2004

    Link exchange between Firefox and Microsoft bloggers

    Asa Dotzler of mozilla.org tells us how he got a link exchange from Robert Scoble, Microsoft's most popular blogger.

    ... Robert Scoble, agreed to add a Firefox button to his weblog if I would add a "I recommend installing XPSP2" link to my blog.

    Asa has already added the "I recommend installing XPSP2" link to his blog. I wonder what Robert's CEO would have to say about this if he does add the Firefox button.

    Well, whatever happens, I recommend installing Firefox, especially the freshly baked 1.0 Preview Release (grab the Windows installer or a Windows zip package - I assume other platform users will know what they are doing).

  • Sep 14, 2004

    Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 released

    Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 is out. Time for you to upgrade my favorite email client or to convert if you haven't yet. Give it a quick whirl and if you meet any problems, I'll be your (free) technical support. Just drop me a note.

    All the new features I've written about one and a half months back are still there, except for Improved Quick Search.

  • Sep 11, 2004

    Alternate stylesheet UI is back in Firefox!

    Remember the big debate over the removal of the alternate stylesheet UI? Well, the mozilla.org guys have had an Aviary meeting and approved the re-inserting of the alternate stylesheet UI back into Firefox 1.0.

    Check out Asa's re-opening of the Re-insert Alternate Stylesheet UI bug report - bug 257859:

    Setting nomination flag for PR since we'll want to get this in before
    PR if we add it back.

    Well, I'm glad it worked out this way. And even better, the new alternate stylesheet UI comes with improvements as well.

    The status bar UI looks almost the same, only the wording has been changed from "Basic" to the more understandable "Basic Page Style".

    Firefox Alternate Stylesheet UI


    There is also now a "Page View" submenu under the "View" menu that includes a "No Style" option that removes CSS styling from the webpage. Amazingly, this now strips all styles, including styles applied in HTML style attributes and even font tags! Try that on a site that uses font tags like HPB. (Before, the font tag styles will still be visible.)

    Firefox Alternate Stylesheet UI menu


    On a somewhat related note, the "Work Offline" UI has been re-added for Firefox Preview Release 1. The devs will be working to get it fully (or mostly) functional before the big one-point-oh as well.

  • Sep 9, 2004

    iTunes plugin API - where is it?

    Anybody knows where one can find the iTunes (for Windows) plugin API and documentation? There're so many plugins available but I have no idea how the plugin authors even got started coding them - documentation on apple.com is nearly non-existent.

    Update: Found it. Thanks sryo!

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