July 29, 2003
July 28, 2003
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 was just released. Congrats Scott! So where's your blog anyway? ;)
I've updated the download page to look more like the Mozilla Firebird download page. The colors of the boxes were taken from the Mozilla.org front page.
Oh, and I just put up a draft of the release notes for Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1. We're getting closer...
July 23, 2003
Mozilla 1.5a is out
As always, good work Asa and everyone else working on this release. Not that I'm using the application suite myself of course...
Going official
After an irc chat with Blake it's now for certain that the site formerly known as Mozilla Firebird Help is the official end-user site for Mozilla Firebird.
After another chat with Asa it turns out that the mozilla.org/projects/firebird space will most probably be reclaimed once a new project site has been made. Ben has put his thoughts about this on print in a document that pretty much explains the whole idea. The project site will be for developers and testers, while my site will be for end-users and possibly also the "product page" he is referring to.
Things are still a bit confused (at least on my end) and we're trying to sort all this out. In the meantime, I've updated the download page to be a little easier to use, since the old project page is gone.
July 20, 2003
Firebird checkins
I just discovered that Blake has effectively removed the official Mozilla Firebird project page, now pointing to my site instead. Does this mean that Mozilla Firebird Help is now the official home of Mozilla Firebird?
On another notice, noririty just got CVS access to mozilla/browser. Finally, someone who has time to squash some of those small bugs and start checking in good patches! Good work so far, noririty!
July 15, 2003
Mozilla Foundation
Interesting changes at mozilla.org and the new Mozilla Foundation. I'm sure this will lead to a better and more independent mozilla.org!
Update: There's a lot of confusion floating around and many questions unanswered. I advise anyone who wants to get a deeper understanding on what's going on at mozilla.org to read the article at SlashDot. Gervase Markham of mozilla.org is there to answer many questions which at least helped me understand this better.
July 13, 2003
Bug 212433
OK, I've updated the css. Does the calendar look better now?
Update: Please Shift+Reload the page before reporting any problems. If things still look weird, please provide a screenshot. Thank you.
July 11, 2003
July 8, 2003
Qute gets improved
Arvid has been working with the default theme for Mozilla Firebird lately and fixed a lot of small css issues I mentioned, as well as improving the overall appearance of the toolbar icons.
The differences are subtle but very important for the overall professional appearance. Good work Arvid!
Yes, I'm also using the icon pack extension by Jed Brown for the window icon, originally designed by Lim Chee Aun.
Update: The recent changes in Qute was just checked in by kerz!
Mozilla Firebird Help in Swedish
At last, Mozilla Firebird Help is available in Swedish! Thanks to Mikael Winterkvist for translating the site.
In Swedish: Äntligen finns Mozilla Firebird Help på svenska! Tack till Mikael Winterkvist för översättningen av hemsidan.
July 6, 2003
mozillafirebird.com
Jack Baty writes:
I keep preaching the benefits of Mozilla Firebird, and for good reasons. The trouble begins when I actually convince someone to try it. Great! Go to mozilla.org and, oh wait, can’t find a link there. Try the projects page. No link there either? Well there’s always Google.
How about mozillafirebird.org? That’s got to work right? Well it doesn’t. Or at least it didn’t until now. I registered mozillafirebird.org .net and .com not 5 minutes ago. I’ll create a nice page pointing to the Mozilla Firebird project page for those folks who try hitting the obvious domain. Should be available in a day or two.
Yes, I know that the roadmap says that the name Mozilla Firebird is temporary and will change right after Mozilla hits 1.4, but I’ll bet in the ensuing confusion folks call it “Mozilla Firebird” for at least another year or so.
He certainly has a point there. Mozilla Firebird is a bit hard to find for first-time visitors of mozilla.org. Blake thinks that the domain names should point to Mozilla Firebird Help. We'll see what happens.
Anyway, thanks for the domain names Jack!
July 3, 2003
Now sharing the same extension database
The Extensions pages at Mozilla *bird Help now indirectly uses the centralized database at database.mozdev.org!
Stephen Clavering wrote a temporary XML parser that generates JavaScript files. These files are compatible with the current listings at *bird Help made by alanjstr so it required little change at my sites. Now I don't have to care that much about maintaining an ever growing list of extensions anymore, which is a big relief!
As mentioned earlier, the JavaScript files for the themes listings have been copied to database.mozdev.org, but there will be a true XML database for themes too in the future.
July 1, 2003
Trying to keep myself up to date
alanjstr has agreed to help me moving the js files to database.mozdev.org until we can setup up the XML parser for the *bird Help sites.
Moving the files to this more public location will help me keeping them up to date, since more people have access to the files. I find myself having less time for these stuff nowadays...
Update: The js files are now moved to database.mozdev.org!