November 9, 2004

A Date to Remember

It's November 9th, 2004.

Living in Sweden (GMT+1), I've already had a taste of this big day in Mozilla history. :) The new Firefox Help is ready. I spent the whole afternoon and evening working on the new site, updating content and improving style. I'm especially satisfied with the new Keyboard Shortcuts page. The old texturizer.net site has finally been put to sleep.

Soon it's time for celebration... :)

Firefox Rising!

Posted by djst at November 9, 2004 12:38 AM
Comments

Looks nice, good job. I think you should make the little 'Win' 'Mac' 'Linux' images on the keyboard shortcuts page darker as they are a little hard to read, otherwise, looks good.

Posted by: Jack at November 9, 2004 1:17 AM

Nice work!

The following is not working for me in ff rc2 win:

Page Info
Save Link Target As

Posted by: Adam Bramwell at November 9, 2004 1:38 AM

Unfortuately one of the keyboard shortcut in the table seems to be wrong. If you are Windows user, try Ctrl + Shift + I. In the table, it said it will open the Page Info. But what I found is that it opens the DOM Inspector... :-/

Posted by: minghong at November 9, 2004 1:40 AM

Adam, you are right. Save Link Target As (Alt + Enter) doesn't work too... It saves the file, but without saying me for filename... Apparently it is missing the "As" of "Save Link Target As"... :-P

Posted by: minghong at November 9, 2004 1:42 AM

Nice work David, as always your Help site will be where I point my newly converted users. One quick question:

Under the FAQ, http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#q1.4
shouldn't the Product page link go to http://www.mozilla.org/products/ or even to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox rather than to http://www.mozilla.org/support/?

Posted by: Jude Cooks at November 9, 2004 2:09 AM

Thanks minghong and Jude! I've corrected the pages.

Posted by: David Tenser at November 9, 2004 2:21 AM

Bravo on a great job David. I especially like the keyboard shortcuts page. Very useful.

R.I.P. http://texturizer.net/firefox/

Posted by: Smoke at November 9, 2004 4:49 AM

Looks great!

Nit pick:
"MacOS X uses Return is used instead of Enter. Throughout this page, Enter/Return will be used."

Grammar - shouldn't "uses Return is used" be either "uses Return" or "Return is used" (facing the wrath of the MS-Word grammar checker for passiveness)?

Posted by: Mook at November 9, 2004 6:12 AM

I think you should use HTTP redirects instead of displaying "this page has moved" pages.

Posted by: Jesse Ruderman at November 9, 2004 10:23 AM

Mook, thanks for noticing it, fixed now. Jesse, these web pages will be displayed for a few days now, then I'll redirect instead.

Posted by: David Tenser at November 9, 2004 10:29 AM

Tears. Thank you for your stupendous effort, David. Your humble yet incredibly thorough webpage deserves credit for getting many of us non-coder geeks to understand how to be dangerous enough to HELP the Mozilla Foundation achieve this milestone. Many amazing minds have done many amazing things to get us here but none can claim your style and generosity. I proclaim thee St. djst of *bird.

Posted by: Spewey at November 9, 2004 1:50 PM

Spewey, thank you so much for those words.

Posted by: David Tenser at November 9, 2004 6:27 PM

The 9th of Novermber is a remarkable date indeed:

1918 Germany proclaims republic (twice that day).

1938 Progrm night - Nazis in Germany destroy Jewish shops, hauses, churches etc.

1989 The Berlin Wall fell beginning the reunification of Germany

2004 Firefox 1.0 changes the World.

Posted by: Chris at November 10, 2004 2:19 PM