Category: Software and Programming

Asa Dotler posts a list of cool Mozilla-tinkering links, including adding editing buttons to Movable Type in Mozilla and these interesting bookmarklets. I hadn’t considered that you can use the DOM to graft arbitrary Javascript source files onto a web page; I thought it would be blocked for security reasons.

Dave Hyatt, designer of XUL, responds to Dave Winer and jwz’s rants about CSS, and his points are relevant to any discussion of the future of HTML and CSS:

…while I love CSS and prefer designing my pages using CSS, I completely agree with Dave and Jamie.

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Web geeks like to write huge articles about how they took crappy building blocks and made something cool and clever, but so frickin’ what? Points to you, buddy, you managed to mold some crappy clay into the shape of Michelangelo’s David, but it’s still just crappy clay.

The simple truth that is obvious to anyone coming at this with no prior experience is that there are fundamental building blocks that are completely missing from CSS and HTML.

See also a clarification a few posts later.

PC Magazine recommends Spybot Search & Destroy. Is is better than Adaware (which is horribly slow, doesn’t delete the CE dialer that taunts me in the Programs menu and the C drive…)?

Of course, I’d probably not need any of this if my girlfriend was using freeBSD and browsing the web with lynx, but this is far from the case. She uses an old PC running Windows 98, applications like Odigo (contains Spyware) and Hotbar (IS spyware – also apparently unstable, so I uninstalled it), and she needs to use IE because most of the sites she visits don’t work that well otherwise).

Daniel Glazman outlines his plans for Composer, the Mozilla HTML editor, which he’ll be maintaining in the post-application-suite world.

Glazman is also responsible for this supercool example of tabbed navigation using only CSS 3 selectors (that page, on the W3C site, is proudly HTML 4.01 – it doesn’t even close it’s <p> tags…)