June 2003 Archives

it's done

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Mozilla 1.4 and Netscape 7 have shipped. This is the first simultaneous release sice, hmm, ever? Have we done that before? Maybe one of those Netscape 6.x releases coincide with 0.9.2 or 0.9.4? It's mostly a blur these days. I've been doing these releases for almost exactly 3 years now and I think with 1.4 I'm up to about 40 of them. Wow. Fun stuff.

Well, 1.4 makes me happy. It's a great relase with a darned good featureset but I'm even happier about Netscape 7.1 because it's shipping DOM Inspector and Venkman! This is really exciting to me because I think these are great tools and getting them into the hands of a larger audience of web developers is a great thing for everyone.

wapo

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Rob Pegoraro, in his Washington Post article on Safari (Sunday print edition too,) says "Firebird is still in an early test stage (www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird), but I'm already considering making it my default browser." He appreciates the slimmed down interface that retains Mozilla's great features. Special mention was given to the redesign of Mozilla's "grotesque preferences window".

delays

Weather and cork insulation conspire to delay the MER-B launch. They'll try again on Monday evening.

site design

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In an earlier post I pointed to Dave Shea's MOSe design proposal, which I'll summarize as "make it work in IE and then make it work better in Mozilla, Opera and Safari using advanced CSS that IE ignores." Today, after reading Andreas at WebGraphics I realized there's something that mildly bothers me about this approach.

Andreas outlines the design process as "1. design for IE6 and 2. tweak your design and add extra functionality for MOS."

I'd like to propose this variation: 1. design to the subset of the standards which works well in version 5 browsers and newer. 2. tweak your design to make it more usable for people with more capable (MOS) browsers.

There are still a lot of IE 5 browsers out there and 6 doesn't seem to me to be sufficiently more advanced in standards support to warrant making it the new baseline. Maybe the part about designing to the spec rather than the browser is just semantics but I think it's probably important nonetheless, that is, if designing to a spec rather than to a browser is still an ultimate goal. Browsers aren't there yet but they're getting a lot closer and we should take advantage of that. Designing to a subset of the spec and then carefully extending seems like the best possible approach.

For a system like this to work well, that spec subset needs to be very clear and very visible. If it hasn't been done already, then we really need, for example, a CSS 2 specification document which covers just the subset of CSS 2 that works essentially the same modern IE and MOS browsers. We'd need the same for HTML, DOM, the rest of CSS, etc. Does something this already exist?

I'm fairly new to site design and I'm very guilty of designing for one particular browser and then tweaking to try to make it look right in the others. I never intend to do this professionally and I don't even intend to get very good at it, but as I get more familiar with the w3c specifications I increasingly want to be able to design and implement my site with just that spec (or some subset of it) in hand rather than a bunch of browsers reload buttons.

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mer b launch

Tonight, June 28, at 11:56 p.m. Eastern time (8:56 p.m. Pacific time) the second Mars Exploration Rover, dubbed Opportunity, is scheduled for launch. You can watch the launch on NASA TV or on the Internet.

MER A, also known as Spirit, launced earlier this month and has already traveled about 20 million miles, made trajectory, attitude, and orientation burns and is in great health.

mitch gains altitude

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I was a bit late in noticing that Mitch Kapor blogged that he made the switch, again. Just a few weeks ago he made the leap from IE to Mozilla and this last week he took flight with the Firebird. It sounds like this transition was a bit easier than the last, with the exception of getting Flash to work. I spoke with him briefly on IRC and think he's got it working now (for the most part).

The Flash issue with Mozilla Firebird is two-fold. First, we have no installer so we don't set the necessary windows registry entries to be detected by Macromedia's Flash installer. That means that even if you copy the flash plugin over to your profile dir or select "other" in the Flash installer and point it at your Firebird plugins dir you won't get scriptable flash support. You'll get basic flash which covers many of the common cases on the web but it's incomplete.

The second part of the issue is that if you do tweak the registry then a bug (not sure if it's Firebird's or Flash's) causes the Flash installer to corrupt one of Firebird's critical preferences files (all.js). So if you manually registered Firebird in the windows registry or used the unofficial installer, which sets the key for you, and then you installed Flash you end up with a broken 'Bird. Ugh! The workaround to this problem is to back up your all.js file (located in your Firebird install directory) and then restore it after installing Flash. What a pain.

I stand by my claim that plug-ins is a top problem for Mozilla users. I know mpt probably still thinks it's more important to focus on geeky features like page validation indicators, but my experience says that real people trying to use our software are having real problems with plug-ins and could care less about some developer features like page validation icons.

sweet

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If you're viewing this post in a Gecko-based browser, click this out. A remote desktop with XUL games. How cool is that!
Link via Raible Designs.

searching with firebird

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I've raved in the past about the mycroft project and even created a nifty Firebird search plug-in for adot's notblog. Today I read about two new search plug-ins created by milbertus over at Ramblings of a Code Monkey. With these plug-ins you can conveniently, search Google Images and Google Groups from the Firebird search field. (didn't these already exist over at mycroft?)

ie6 the new nn4

I was just re-reading a great introduction to CSS3 Selectors at XML.com when I found that mezzoblue has some good thoughts on extending web design beyond IE using CSS3 selectors. This effort is being dubbed MOSe for Mozilla/Opera/Safari and looks like a very clean mechanism for moving beyond IE6's poor support for CSS.

time for a rewrite

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After more than two and a half years and about three hundred revisions that led to a spaghetti-like mess of less than helpful information, I finally decided that it was time for a shake-up. Zach and I have begun a reorganization and partial rewrite of the Mozilla Release Notes.

The plan is to break the old doc up into several parts including a "what's new in this release" document (README), a "compatibility, installation and uninstallation" document (Installation Notes), a "known issues" document (Known Issues) and a few other lesser docs. In addition to breaking the document into smaller and more focused parts, we'll also be ripping out a lot of unhelpful cruft that's built up over the years with a focus on highlighting only the most important issues. This means that messes like the "every bug that exists in the postscript module that doesn't exist in the xprint module" get cleaned out.

If all goes well we should have it completed in time for the 1.4 release on Monday. (Yep.)

wamcom

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WaMCom (Web and Mail Communicator) has created a stable browser based on Mozilla 1.3.1 plus 480 additional trunk bug fixes. This Mozilla-based app suite is intended to give users all the power of Mozilla 1.3.1 with hundreds of additional stability, correctness and security fixes ported from the Mozilla trunk.

This is a pretty amazing effort, evaluating and incorporating all of those fixes into Mozilla 1.3.1 and getting it out before Mozilla reached the next Milestone. If you're happy with the Mozilla 1.3 feature set but want better stability, site compatibility, polish, security, etc. then grab this WaMCom release and give it a try.

making XUL

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Via andyed, XULMaker 0.5 is now available:

Version 0.50 has finally been released. It's a major evolution from version 0.40 which was a re-write from the original. It includes a lot of new functionality and many new features that make it a more complete product. In particular, it includes support for the full set of XUL elements, attributes and attribute values - XUL elements, attributes and attribute values are defined in an XML Schema and accessed by XULMaker using XPath. (See XUL Schema and XPathEvaluator.) It includes simultaneous graphic and text views of a XUL Document. It includes a varied choice of toolbars to carry out construction.

newsmonster

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NewsMonster is now feature complete. I'm very interested in NewsMonster's reputation system. I'll blog more on this when I've had a chance to check it out further.

third release candidate

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extension thinking

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Dave Hyatt has some thoughts on the future of extensions and extension install/uninstal over at his weblog.

It looks like Mozilla Firebird has moved up a bit in the Google listing.

I've got 1.4 RC 3 builds in hand and it's just waiting on me to finish up the release documentation. Hopefully today.

releasing is hard

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We're still not done with 1.4 but it's getting sooo close. Drivers have added a little to the 1.5 Alpha schedule to push it out past the 1.4 release so we're not trying to manage two releases at the same time, dividing our testing resources, etc. I'm shooting for 1.4 RC3 tomorrow. If all goes well with that, we could see final as soon as the end of this week or beginning of next.

great trip

We had a wonderful trip down the coast. The weather turned out for us, with (surprising for this time of year) fabulously clear blue skies, and a consistent and comfortable cool breeze.

The traffic on the way down was reasonable and even the return was OK.

Small rant: When you're driving on a beautiful scenic road soaking it all in at 30 mph (which I can completely understand,) if you look in your rear-view mirror and see more than a handful of cars lined up behind you, do us all a favor and pull the @$!% over to let us pass. Some of us enjoy the driving as well as the view. This applies double if you're a minivan, SUV, RV or other scenery-blocking vehicle. Thanks.

I'll try to get some photos up and maybe comment about a few of our enjoyable stops when I'm not so tired.

california drivin'

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Deanna and I taking off for a couple of days to drive down the coast. Several times a year we pack the car for the weekend, drive over 84 to 1 at San Gregorio and head South to various stops including Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, Lucia, San Simeon, etc. Today our destination is Cambria, about 200 miles South, where we'll spend the night and then head back home the next day. It's the drive, and not the destination, that motivates these trips so we'll take most of the two days to cover that 400 mile round trip.

I've taken a lot of beautiful drives and I think that the Califorinia coastline between San Francisco and Santa Barbara is some of the most scenic and beautiful driving that this continent has to offer. I encourage anyone living in the area or visiting to make the time to see at least some of what our coast has to offer. If you're going to be making that drive for the firsts time, let me know and I'll point you to some nice stops for food, shelter and sight-seeing.

more minor style tweaks

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I've once again made style mods to the site at a time when all I have in front of me are Gecko-based browsers. I'm happy with the changes but if I've made the site unreadable in some other decent browser (like safari or opera) then let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix it or, even better, if something's broken and you can offer a fix that maintains the current look for Firebird (and other gecko browsers,) I'll not only fix it but sing your praises right here on this blog :-)

The changes are fairly minor. I've dropped the "no underline until you mouse into the post" thing in favor of a "sort of underline it and then make it almost button-like when you mouse into the post but try to do it with some subtlety" thing. If your browser doesn't understand -moz-border-radius then you don't get the nice rounded corners (but that's nothing new.)

update: It seems like IE and Konq don't like the border: transparent; bits. That just sucks. Safari and Mozilla seem fine. What's it look like in Opera?

more on rss feeds

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Maybe I've said this before but I really want an application that looks like a feed reader and pulls RSS content from weblogs and news sites but which is topic based rather than URI based. I want to be able to subscribe to term or phrase and get specific RSS posts which match against that term or phrase. Right now I use web-based search tools like Feedster to achieve this but I long for the rich client environment of an email or feed/news reader. Anyone know of anything like this?

I firmly believe that I'm not alone in wanting to harness the immediacy and variety that is available from weblogs and news sites via RSS but not the least bit interested in the particular blogs or news sites themselves. Give me all of the news and postings that match "mars + space" or "mozilla" or "gulf + war". Surely there's a market for a client that pulls based on topic rather than URI, maybe even a larger one than exists for the current crop of feed readers.

I suppose it would require a server somewhere with a database that indexed feeds or maybe the user would subscribe to lots of feeds and then the client could search locally. However it's done, I think that a client that did this would be wildly popular. Maybe a Mozilla Firebird or Thunderbird extension that worked with the Feedster database would be just the ticket :-)

rss searching

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Two of my three favorite RSS search tools are merging. This weekend rssSearch is going away. Thanks for providing such a great tool in rssSearch, Francois. I hope that the all new Feedster comes to be more than the sum of its parts as both an endeavor and a product.

use thunderbird

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Scott should try Thunderbird. It may not be finished but it's based on the rock-solid Mozilla MailNews backend and while the interface (the new parts) isn't yet complete, it's definitely in better shape, and more capable, than Balsa. I've been using it as my primary email and newsgroup client for a while now and haven't experienced any significant problems.

third release candidate

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Mozilla 1.4 is about to have its third release candidate. I expect the builds to go live on Monday. Between now and then I've got some release documentation to do and the build folks have to repackage the bits for the release. In the mean time you can get a sneak peek at the builds which will very likely become Mozilla 1.4 RC3 early next week (and which I hope will become Mozilla 1.4). Mac, Windows, and Linux.

There are several important fixes since the second release candidate, including a fix for the major memory leak that was impacting win9x users the most, and several Mac OS X fixes including one for tabbed browsing context menus, one for typing problems on flash sites, and a new application and documentation icon set :-)

forumzilla is back

Myk Melez posted news over at mozillazine that Forumzilla, an RSS feed reader that presents news and blogs in the traditional three-pane mail interface, has been reborn as a Thunderbird extension. It's still alpha-quality and it requires a special build of Thunderbird but I've been playing with it for a few days and it's a great start.

Myk's original Forumzilla, available at forumzilla.mozdev.org was a standalone RSS feed reader app that replicated much of the Mozilla MailNews UI.

looking down

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Nasa has just released another one of the amazing SRTM shaded and colored elevation models. This one, of South America is just beautiful. Don't miss the high resolution jpg. Sure makes me long for a larger and higher resolution screen. 1600x1200 used to seem so great :-)

new thunder

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Go get it! Scott posted at mozillaZine about the newest nightly build of Mozilla Thunderbird and the big news for this build is extension support. You can visit Thunderbird Help and Extension Room at mozdev.org to download extensions and then install them via the Extensions panel in the Options window. Scott's also put together an "Off-line" extension to provide users with the off-line capability found in Mozilla Messenger as well as to provide a template for Thunderbird extension developers.

I'm using Thunderbird as my full-time email client and have been for some time. I've had no problems with any of the builds in the last few weeks and find them as functional (and in many ways, more usable) than Mozilla Messenger so if you've been waiting for someone to say "just do it" then take this post as my endorsement of Thunderbird and get yourself a build Great work Scott!

it's soup

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Mozilla 1.4 RC 2 is available for download.

rc2

Luck has not been with us for the last few days but leaf, bryner and the rest of our build experts are workin' on getting 1.4 RC2 builds which will hopefully work for rh 7, 8 and 9 users. Maybe tomorrow.

I'm still vacationing.

the bird of fire it is good, eat!

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I'm sure that the Google translation of StandBlog leaves a bit to be desired but I like it anyway.

"With believing this article of Asa of it , it is a true tidal wave towards Mozilla Firebird . And statement which it is yet only in version 0.6... And to paraphrase Chechmate : the bird of fire it is good, eat!

And Phil Ringnalda has a nice article on Firebird and Firebird extensions.

And if you didn't catch the review of Firebird over at MadPenguin.org (link via hyatt,) give it a look.

When I had the chance to sit down and take a look at this browser, I wasn't really expecting to be impressed enough to inspire an entire review, but obviously I was because here we are. This browser is the beginning of something wonderful.

And... actually, that's it for now. Back to my vacation.

so far so good

JPL and NASA:

"NASA's Spirit spacecraft, the first of twin Mars Exploration Rovers, has successfully reduced its spin rate as planned and switched to celestial navigation using a star scanner.

All systems on the spacecraft are in good health. As of 48 hours after the June 10 launch, Spirit had traveled 5,630,000 kilometers "

More at JPL News Release.

onFirebird

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more blog searching

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So Technorati has blog searching. Unfortunately it's not that good. It seems pretty slow and has lots of outdated stuff showing up at the top of a supposedly date-sorted results list. Stick with Feedster, BlogDigger, and rssSearch for now. I was also recently pointed at blogstreet which is decent as well.

Technorati has a big database of feeds but the results just aren't up to par with what I'm getting from these other four. If you know of other search tools for RSS feeds which provide date of feed sorted results, please let me know.

heh

blake==pavlov?

On a completely different topic, (link via brendan) I'm pleased to see good people finding the amazing mycroft search plugin project. Search is definitely one of Firebird's best features. We just need to make it more obvious how extensible it is. (reminder: if you're using Mozilla Firebird, you can add a search plugin for this blog by clicking the link over there under the blogroll and archive link list.)

friday the thirteenth

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Maby today will go better than yesterday and we can get RC2 out the door. Maybe it won't. Either way, the weekend's almost here and that's a good thing. Blogging will probably be light as 1.4 RC2 and getting ready for my mom's visit will be eating most of my time.

happy birthday

On the second to last birthday that matters, wishing Blake a joyful day. Go buy yourself a pack of smokes and don't forget to register for the draft.

haven't got time for the pain

If you're in a hurry and you don't want to follow links (or bookmarks or whatever) to the various Mozilla-peoples' blogs without first being sure they've got something new posted, then you should bookmark Henrik Gemal's new Mozilla Related Blogs page. It lets you know when any of those blogs were last updated and kindly sorts the list with newest posts at the top. Nifty.

gcc 3.2.3 nearly-RC2 builds

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We're testing 1.4 nightly Linux builds (very close to RC2) compiled with a 3.2.3 version of GCC and looking for people to help us bang on these builds and see if everything's working as it's supposed to. These new Linux builds can be found at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.4-gcc323/

If you find something that's not working in these builds that is working in the other 1.4 branch nightly builds http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.4/ (or RC1) please let us know.

Thanks.

--Asa

extension extension

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This extension totally rocks! It's an extension that gives you a list of available extensions, their descriptions and an install button. The manager pokes the Extension Room database at extensionroom.mozdev.org and populates a list of available Firebird extensions. You can select extensions in the list, read their descriptions and install them. Thanks to clav for the great work and the pointer to the discussion thread. Read more at mozillaZine.

spirit aloft

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Today, the first of the Mars Explorer Roverers, Spririt, blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Bad weather delayed the launch a couple of days but this afternoon things cleared up enough to get this show on the 7 month road to Mars. More info about the mission can be found at the MER Home.

bookmarklets rock

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If you make web pages and you haven't discovered the joy of bookmarklets, let this Simon Willison blog post show you the way. And, of course, check out Jesse's site for a great collection of bookmarklets.

gettin' close

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We're getting very close to a Mozilla 1.4 Release Candidate 2. Maybe tomorrow or the next day. If you see anything new and scary in today's or tomorrow's 1.4 branch builds, be sure to let us know. I've posted some more info at n.p.mseamonkey.

mitch@osaf switches

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Mitch Kapor, of the OSAF has bloggerd about his move from IE to Mozilla.

He makes some good points about the difficulty of carrying his IE state (cookies, passwords, bookmarks, etc.) to a new application. I suspect that this is a strong disincentive to potential switchers. Overcoming these hindrances, probably through a combination of application enhancements and better documentation, will certainly help encourage more switching.

If you're like me and enjoy reading posts from satisfied Firebird users then don't miss the comments that follow Mitch's post.

If you're Mitch and you're reading this (unlikely) then maybe these pages will help some to salve over the wounds incurred during your conversion.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot
mozdev.org top projects

And if you give Mozilla Firebird a try then don't miss don't miss David Tenser's amazing Firebird Help site, Ben Goodger's great Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser doc and Minh Truong's 10 incredible Mozilla Firebird features (and how to use them) page.

Much of the Firebird information also applies to the browser component of the Mozilla application suite as well so it's worth a glance even if you intend to keep using Mozilla.

chicken

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If you're in San Francisco and you don't stop at the Zuni Cafe and order the brick oven-roasted chicken for two with Tuscan-style bread salad, you're really missing out. It was, without a doubt, the best chicken I've ever had. I can also recommend the shoestring potatoes and the polenta appetizer.

outta here

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I'm takin' off for a couple a days and leavin' the laptop behind. Deanna and I are headed into SF for the weekend and so you won't hear much from me until Monday (unless we stumble upon a net cafe or somethin').

Thanks for all the warm birthday wishes and have a good weekend.

Oh, and don't forget to tune in on Sunday mornin' (A June 8 at 11:02 am PDT, 2:02 pm EDT) for the launch of NASA's Mars Explorer Rover, the first of twin launches scheduled for this month and arriving at Mars early in the new year. Space.com should have some coverage (not sure if it'll be any good though.)

Mozilla 1.0 turns one

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On this day, one year ago, Mozilla 1.0 was released.
On this day, twentynine years ago, Asa Dotzler was released.

we're a winner

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Mozilla 1.3 was named best web browser in IDG'S PC World 21st Annual World Class Awards

World Class: Best of 2003 PC World Editors From the July 2003 issue of PC World magazine Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2003

The browser wars may be over, but browser innovation isn't. For five years, the open-source community has hacked away on Mozilla, a free program that is now stable, speedy, standards-compliant, and full of useful features. Unlike Internet Explorer, Mozilla blocks pop-ups with a built-in tool, manages cookies and passwords site-by-site, and includes both an IRC chat client and a powerful mail reader with intelligent spam filtering. You can surf multiple sites in one tabbed browser window (as you can in Opera, another alternative Web browser we like).

And they even include a screenshot.

busy busy

Blogging is gonna be slow for the next few days. I've got a lot going on with work and personal life.

MER A launches this weekend! (Not on my birthday as previously reported.)

joel ripples

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A few interesting blogs on Mozilla recently:

Call for Mozilla Switch and Part 2 cover 10 great reasons to switch to Mozilla. "It's not about Open Source, not better web standard support, Mozilla is just simply better."

Jason Lefkowitz at Just Well Mixed agrees with Oscar Merida at Oscarm.org and thinks that "stealth switching" is going to become more and more common.

Chris Curtis at Lethargic Ramblings likes the idea of a huge marketing campaign and thinks that something like Dave's "Luxury Web Experience" suggestion at mezzoblue could work.

79 Decibels sees a pretty serious spike in non-IE user agents and it looks like the Joel Spolsky's Firebird comments have had a pretty good ripple effect:

Trader Mike
RasterWe b
Jon Udell's weblog
Gregory Blake
Scripting News
Marcus Ramberg
FS Consulting's Weblog
Dave Seidel
Tom Pierce
Critical Section
DrunkAndRetired
Tim Aiello
StandBlog (google translation)
Heiko Hebig
Jack Baty
Jeff hume
KiYun Roe
e-mike's weblog
myfreakinname
zlog
Edward Bilodeau's weblog
Words of Waldman v2.0
Evil Fenius Chronicles
jra's thoughts
Micah Alpern
(and there were a dozen or so additional blogs that I bumpted into that linked or excerpted Joel but didn't add commentary.)

There are also a a half-dozen or so blog posts I've run across in the last couple of days discussing people trying out (and liking) Firebird. Maybe more ripple from Joel?

Temperantia R3
Kevin Donahue
Fazal Majid's low-intensity weblog
Synthetic Morpheme
Groc's bloggette
Considering...

Firebird even gets a mention at Dog News: weird, inspiring dog tales :-)

update: If you're looking for more on Mozilla Firebird then don't miss don't miss David Tenser's amazing Firebird Help site, Ben Goodger's great Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser doc and Minh Truong's 10 incredible Mozilla Firebird features (and how to use them) page.

thanks chris!!

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Chris Pirillo hooked me up with an awesome desktop wallpaper image of Mars.

I'll try to put together a better post on the subject soon but in case I don't, this month and next should be some great Mars viewing. Mars is coming closer to Earth than it's been in a long time. Now would be a good time to get that scope out (or go buy one, even a small one) and start getting up close and personal with the Red Planet.

we're ready to go

"We're ready to go," says Michael Witting, the Mars Express launch campaign manager in Baikonur. Mars Express, the ESA's orbiter and lander is scheduled for launch today! You can watch the launch live via webcast (real player required) in about 1 hour from now (I think I've done the conversion correctly.)

I wrote some about this mission earlier if you're interested.

new home

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This blog is a little over a year old and today it moves to its third home. You can now find me at http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa. (If you're reading this, then you should have been automatically redirected.)

Our gracious hosts and the premier Mozilla Community Hub™, mozillaZine.org, have moved all of the weblogs they host from http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/<name> to http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/<name>.

I think all the redirect stuff is in top working order but if you link to me or even have a bookmark, it might be a good idea to update that. Also, if you see any weirdness, please let me know.

makin' waves

erosive art

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This weeks installment of Mars images covers the awesome and beautiful effects erosion on the Red Planet. Gullies, washes, slides, dunes and dustdevil tracks speckle your screen with amazing shapes, textures, and contrasts. What an amazing photograhper we have in the MGS's MOC.

Image index and context:
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