• Jul 18, 2004

    Favicons and bookmarks now work properly in Firefox

    Checked into the Firefox aviary (codename for Firefox 1.0) branch: fixes for bugs 174265, 173762, and 228862. All bugs with favicons and bookmarks: "Wrong favicons in bookmarks", "Favicons are forgotten after shutdown", and "Store icons in bookmarks.html" respectively. All fixed by Vladimir Vukicevic with some clever JavaScript that fetches the favicons from the URL of each bookmark.

    firefox-favicons-bookmarks.png


    Pretty!

  • Jul 18, 2004

    Split a webpage into 2 with this bookmarklet

    Cedric asked for Document-splitting in Web browsers and promptly got it (read the comment by Jeff Mesnil in Cedric's blog entry).

    Jeff Mesnil whipped up 2 bookmarklets in the space of less than one and a half hours that allows you to split a browser into 2 frames. How does it do that? It loads the current URL in a frameset consisting of 2 frames (both showing the same URL). A simple, yet genius, idea.

    Here's a screenshot of a blog entry split vertically:

    Screenshot of webbrowser split vertically

    Notice how it could be useful when cross-referencing something on the same webpage, particularly if it's a long vertical-scrolling page. A perfect use case would be referring back to a long blog entry when making a comment.

    Here's the same page split horizontally.

    Screenshot of webbrowser split horizontally

    There are probably lots of other use cases for a webpage splitter. Cedric's in particular is this:

    Just recently, I was reading an article that showed a figure at the top and which constantly referred to this figure in the rest of the article.

    Thanks Jeff for writing the bookmarklets and Cedric for thinking of it.

  • Jul 15, 2004

    admin=false

    TheDailyWTF is great. If you develop or have developed web applications before, you will appreciate this entry: Admin=False.

  • Jul 15, 2004

    Can't ditch IE because of Google PageRank? Now you can

    With the Google Pagerank extension! This is a Firefox 0.9.x compatible extension that adds a Google PageRank widget to the statusbar.

    it acts exactly as the real googlebar on IE: calculate a checksum, send a request to google.com (with the googlebar User-Agent string), and the reply contains the pagerank.

    Screenshot of Google PageRank extension in action


    Grab it from installation section or the author's website. (Note: Firefox should prompt and say something to the effect that the installation has been blocked. You can trust this extension, so click on the "Edit Settings" button that appears and allow the installation.)

    It updates when you switch tabs (it could take a while depending on your Internet connection), in case you were going to ask.

    Screenshot of Google PageRank extension in the extension manager


  • Jul 14, 2004

    PHP 5 released!

    Freshly-baked newsbit: PHP 5.0.0 has just been released not too long ago. How long will it take for PHP 5 to become mainstream in webservers around the world? It's anybody's guess.

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