Nice to hear that our install routine doesn't suck too much.
So what's all the fuss over this getSelection stuff that just landed in Mozilla?
I suspected late in the 0.9.x series and now I think it is clear. The two killer features in Mozilla are tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking. (image blocking is probably the next best thing Mozilla's got going for it.) I'm glad that Netscape's shipping at least one third of the good stuff. After we fix some of the more glaring bugs in 1.1, I'd really like to see Mozilla round out the "blocking" feature.
I really should send a thankyou mail to the folks over at Daypop. Without daypop, where would I find stuff like this:
"So, why pay attention to technical trends in these architects? Quite simply put, they usually resist change because they've designed a system which works. When change does occur, it's rationale change, it's change for a reason, and it's usually much bigger than you can actually discern because they are smarter than you.The return of the populist web makes me happy.
There have been two interesting shifts in my immediate architect community in the past six months. First, the use of the Mozilla browser as a primary browser. Second, the appearance of Apple hardware for use as a development platform."
Salon needs a subscription drive or they're going away. But it appears they're not initiating one themselves. Are we going to let them fade into memory? Can the blogging world organize a subscription drive for them? Where would we start? Could a massive linking campain generate enough steam to get the necessary mainstream press to generate enough new traffic to drive subscriptions to keep Salon alive? Would a direct call for subscriptions be more productive than a traffic drive? We're an army of millions. Surely we can do something. Let's figure this out before it's too late. Start posting your ideas. Start linking to the ideas of others. "Talk hard. Steal the air."
Wanna feel both really small and really big in about a minute? If so then check out this cool Java applet.
I've made a couple changes to the site style. The default style is now really plain and the old greenish thing is available as an alternate style from Mozilla's View|Use Style|Round Stuff menuitem. CSS is fun. I know I've done everything wrong but it seems to look OK in the browsers I've tested. I need to work on making things look better at differnt font sizes. When I've had a bit more practice then I'll try do do something more intersting.
Good to see that someone (and another) appreciates Mozilla for it's "geeky" features. I sure do.
happy father's day, dad. thank you for me.
I just know this one will make mpt's day.
Lots of people are asking me how we could release Mozilla 1.1 Alpha so soon after Mozilla 1.0. The answer is that we've been hard at work on 1.1alpha for two months now, taking approximately 1700 bug fixes and a dozen or so new features. Many of those fixes were also landed on the stable 1.0 branch in time for the Mozilla 1.0 (I think less than 1000) but the heavy-lifting and feature work didn't make it to the 1.0 branch and all of that needs testing in a Milestone. Hope this clears it up some.
I just noticed a comment about The Mothman Prophecies on Entertainment Weekly's website:
Teresa - Sun, Jun 9, 2002 at 6:22 PM EDT I loved it was a very differet movie , my 14 yr. old daughter wated with me.She liked it too. It does'nt that Richard is so goerous either.
Uh, ok. Whatever.
Pink reminded me: If you have HBO and you missed this series then tune in because HBO is replaying it. I'll be watching it again and I'm sure that all the well played humor, frustration, sadness, joy and ager will pound me just as hard as it did the first time around. Six Feet Under has that magical combination of a great setting, great writers and great actors. Don't miss it.
Seems hyatt is changing his mind. I tend to agree with hyatt, that a browser like Mozilla "will always be biased towards the power user, precisely because it was never going to get into the hands of novice users in the first place!". Without new mechanisms of distribution, like OEMs shipping it as the default browser on new systems, Mozilla, and even other Mozilla based browsers like Netscape 7, will never reach novice users. Novice users don't download software from mozilla.org or even from Netscape.com (or from c|net either). I await mpt's response to the hyatt blog.
Nearly 2500 posts about Mozilla at /. in the last week and now we make kuro5hin too! I wonder if anyone is collecting up a list of all the reviews. I think I'll ask daypop.
Cool! I guess I don't have to wonder any more.
Malariah's got the real dirt on Mozilla.
shit! we occupy the number 1,2,8,13,28 and 40 spots at daypop's top 40. cool! I don't know if I've seen any one subject dominate like that before.
A friend of mine once described the act searching for your name in a Web search engine and reading the resulting pages as "ego surfing". I have been reading Mozilla 1.0 press all day long with a big smile on my face. I guess it's a form of ego surfing. Watching a project you've worked on for years find its way into the hands of thousands, maybe millions of people and reading what they have to say about it is a pretty cool feeling.
Scott Andrews has themed up his blog http://www.scottandrew.com/in celebration :)
Releasing software is hard. Mozilla one dot oh is right around the corner (I can't wait to party) and the rampdown of 1.1alpha is upon us too. Fun, fun, fun.
Deanna and I took over 1500 photos while we were in Japan and China. Thanks to Dawn we had a nifty digital camera so I can start posting some of them online even before the rest get back from the lab. I'll start with a couple of the more majestic (inexpensive digital cam) pics from the Great Wall. Photo 1 is from the beginning of our hike and photo 2 is from about mid-way on our climb (see the blurry tower on the top right? that's where we started).
