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October 24, 2004

How much does creating a bill and sending it cost for American Express?

Because Amex just sent me a bill for $0.07.

Posted by doron at 6:11 PM | Comments (3)

October 19, 2004

Mozilla Go Crashy

Slashdot (for once) has an interesting security story about browsers crashing on invalid markup. The new IE, which was recompiled using the latest buffer overflow prevention stuff in Visual Studio, did not crash while Gecko for example does. I'm sure the "Firefox Is More Secure" fanboys will find some weird way to play it to Mozilla's advantage, but its important to remember that Mozilla is NOT more secure, its more obscure.

Someone give him the bounty? :)

Posted by doron at 6:38 AM | Comments (49)

October 14, 2004

GMail Notifier 0.4 Beta 2

Get it here (identifies itself as 0.3.16).

I'm mainly looking for windows users to test the notification feature (windows 2K/XP only atm) and see if clicking on it opens Gmail in the browser.

If it doesn't, please run Firefox with -console, also set the pref "browser.dom.window.dump.enabled" to true. Firefox should start with a console and the notifier will dump text there when you click on the notification which can help me.

Posted by doron at 1:46 PM | Comments (17)

October 11, 2004

DevEdge No More?

Looks like DevEdge's server is down. It is possible that AOL decided to take DevEdge down for good, no confirmation yet.

Posted by doron at 10:56 AM | Comments (7)

October 8, 2004

AOL Browser

AOL to release its own IE shell browser.

Crackhead Corp. is at it again.

Posted by doron at 10:00 AM

Joke of the Day: Browser DRM

As always, Slashdot looses contact with reality and says the new Google Print service uses DRM for their web content. If even says that Mozilla allowing websites to disable the context menu is a security hole.

Get A Clue!

All they have is a table column with a background image (the book image) and a regulare image which is a transparent gif. Looking into the DOM gives you the actuall URL of the image.

Amazon has been doing this for ages (for example and actually does it better - if the img itself is loaded, Amazon seems to send back garbage.

Nothing new, move along.

Posted by doron at 9:48 AM | Comments (9)

October 6, 2004

SUSE Talks About Konquror/Gecko Integration

This story contains a short section about the KDE/Gecko work:

Well that started on aKademy where we discussed this on the first day. The question came up during a discussion I had with Matthias Ettrich and a few others. It is currently a pain to the user to need two installed browsers, one browser which works for this website and the other browser which works for the other website. Konqueror is fast and nicely integrated, but Mozilla renders more pages better.

Customers that do web application development heavily use DHTML and other special features that Konqueror doesn't handle very well and it is a lot of work to implement this. Although I like KHTML and the architecture quite a bit I am sad to say that probably the Gecko rendering engine will be the dominant one used in the enterprise arena, and as KDE developers we've got to make sure that we can integrate Gecko fairly well into KDE.

So Lars Knoll and Zack Rusin started working on this at aKademy and I was delighted when they put me aside and showed me what they have done in just three days. It is amazing! I think it is the right way to go! It is a bit sad for KHTML and I hope that despite this people will still maintain it as it is a nice lightweight browser. If it would be a purely technical decision, KHTML has the better architecture, but sometimes you need to go the shortest way to get to your target.

I wonder why its soo hard to implement all these "DHTML" features in the better architected browser :)

Posted by doron at 7:03 PM | Comments (7)

October 3, 2004

Plugin Finder Service Gets Bugzilla Component

The Plugin Finder Service (pfs) got its own bugzilla component under the Firefox component. Please file bugs there :)

I guess this means that Plugin Finder Service has become the official name for the feature. The name was taken from the old Netscape plugin system, as the Firefox feature is something we had talked about back at the Netscape plugin meetings before hell broke loose.

Posted by doron at 5:24 PM | Comments (4)