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August 2, 2003
Mozilla Firebird 0.7 Heats Up
Feature development for Mozilla Firebird 0.7 is heating up. Today dave began working on a new Web Panels implementation that's results in:
This system allows you to have a bookmark on your personal toolbar that reads "Post to MT Blog" that loads the post form in a sidebar, among other things. Full details here (slightly out of date).
I think this is a great new feature, and will go some distance towards reinforcing Firebird's position as "Blogging's Killer App."
In other news, I'm testing some download system changes and bryner is testing some new password manager enhancements.
Posted by ben at August 2, 2003 1:13 AM
Comments
seems fun but why 2mb bigger?
Posted by: . at August 2, 2003 7:22 AM
Different build options?
Posted by: Ben at August 2, 2003 10:41 AM
I get the gist from your documentation that this web panel sidebar will keep a history of what has been dragged into it in the form of somekind of drop-down menu, but that feature just hasn't been implemented as of 8/2/03?
Posted by: rgw at August 2, 2003 11:02 AM
Pretty much. Blame hyatt ;)
Posted by: Ben at August 2, 2003 11:41 AM
Great work, Ben. I'd done some similar work to make the MT Bookmarklet load in IE's sidebar, but I'd love to see this all function in Firebird, especially if we can get it to use nice XUL widgets.
Posted by: Anil at August 3, 2003 1:48 AM
Yeah great work I can't wait to use that MT Web Panel!
Posted by: mini-d at August 3, 2003 6:07 AM
Wouldn't it be better for Firebird to specify that it handles application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml in the Accept: headers it sends the server, so that the CGI script on the other end can do normal content negotiation, rather than having to sniff the user agent?
The functionality is there in HTTP, so it shouldn't be necessary to fudge things.
Posted by: james at August 4, 2003 1:19 AM
Would be nice if, when grabbing a page, Firebird looked for a <link rel="alternate" type="application/web-panel" href="blah"> tag, just like RSS readers do when looking for feeds. Then content providers can provide custom web panels, without doing odd things to their existing forms (while still allowing that as the most common, default behaviour).
Or am I smoking crack? :)
Posted by: Matt Robinson at August 4, 2003 7:07 PM
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