Hot ! - 51 minutes ago
deusx : Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Geode - "Introducing Geode, an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can
# copy2 hour ago
wearehugh : hackademix.net » Hello ClearClick, Goodbye Clickjacking!
# copy
3 days ago
wearehugh : High Performance Web Sites :: Hammerhead: moving performance testing upstream
# copy
12 days ago
joshua : Socialbrowse - the easiest way to share and discuss links
# copy
13 days ago
deusx : [Ubiquity] Go 3.0 script - the power of nouns in ubiquity « Show me the code! - By Davanum Srinivas - "Basically fern’s code generates a list of URL’s which are available as nouns to Ubiquity and Ubiquity displays them as suggestions."
# copy
19 days ago
deusx : What Mozilla Means to Me at Toolness - Among other things, here's why I'm not too stressed about Google Chrome. Also, why Mozilla is unlike any other company I've ever worked for. "Over 180 million users worldwide, Over 5000 community-contributed extensions Over 50 localiza
# copy
26 days ago
deusx : The Synonym Problem « Not The User’s Fault - Jono designing synonyms for Ubiquity using interactive fiction and self-photos.
# copy
28 days ago
deusx : gemal.dk - Intercept HTTP traffic from Firefox extensions - Could lead to some interesting extensions serving as personal HTTP intermediaries, methinks. "Up till now it hasn't been possible for Firefox extensions to intercept HTTP traffic. But with the landing of a fix in bug 430155 - new nsHttpChannel
# copy
28 days ago
gleuschk : WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string - what a hilarious mess (as long as I don't have to deal with it)
Rod Begbie : History of the browser user-agent string - Or how we got from "NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)" to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13" [via] #
François Hodierne : WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string - And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended #
# copy
29 days ago
deusx : Ubiquitous Gists — GitHub - "Mozilla’s Ubiquity is pretty cool. We just pushed out support for commands in Gist If we detect that a Gist contains an Ubiquity command, we’ll add the proper markup to let Firefox know about it."
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : Multi-line strings in Javascript « - "Thanks to E4X, we can now have multi-line strings similar to HEREDOC syntax (although quite a bit more verbose)"
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : rephrase § E4X - "E4X, short for “ECMASCript for XML”, is an extension to ECMAScript (i.e. JavaScript, JScript, ActionScript…) with new syntax and built-in objects for more convenient handling of XML fragments. It seems to be used most frequently with ActionScr
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : Read It Later: Save Your One Read Wonders - "Eliminate cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. Think of it as a ’staging area’ for bookmarks."
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : On Commands, Designers and The Magic Editor « chimney - "Ubiquity is a graphical keyboard user interface. But a lot of people are missing the graphical aspect of it. And that is precisely what makes Ubiquity different from a command line. Command icons help but previews have to be more visual, not just th
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : Ambient News at Toolness - "a Firefox Extension called “Ambient News”, and its goal is to provide the user with zero-cost news about the sites that they visit frequently. The extension requires no configuration; you just install it and see if it helps you out."
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : Integrating Ubiquity and Greasemonkey - ubiquity-firefox | Google Groups - "It occurred to us (Atul in specific) that it wouldn't be hard to allow Ubiquity scripts to wrap existing GreaseMonkey scripts. That way, you could simply subscribe to GM scripts with Ubiquity -- no more annoying and funky UI. What do y'al
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : Mike Chambers » Blog Archive » Firefox Ubiquity Command : fyi - "I have just created a new Firefox Ubiquity plugin command named “fyi”. The command makes it super simple to email info about a web page to anyone. I wrote the command because I am often finding myself forwarding URLs to friends and co-workers.
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity: Thank You - "Last Tuesday, the community working on Ubiquity was five people. Half of us had never met face-to-face, we spanned three continents, and had written a couple dozen commands. Today, our community is thousands strong with contributes in every time zon
# copy
1 month ago
deusx : John’s Blog » Thoughts on Chrome & More - "So even in a more competitive environment than ever, I’m very optimistic about the future of Mozilla and the future of the open Web." John Lilly is the CEO of Mozilla.
# copy
1 month ago
nelson : Google's browser - Google pushing browser UI in interesting directions. Based on Webkit?!
Linkorama : Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - Yet Another Browser
Andy Baio : Google leaks details on Google Chrome, new open-source browser - with a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud; but really, do we need another new browser?
Rod Begbie : Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - Technical details from Google (in comic-book form) for their upcoming browser. Some good ideas in there (splitting out tabs as separate processes definitely makes a lot of sense), but does the world really need another web browser? #
# copy
1 month ago
nelson : Google + Mozilla - Advertising deal that funds Firefox extended to 2011
# copy
1 month ago
Cameron Moll : Ubiquity for Firefox - Introducing Ubiquity for Firefox. Pretty neat stuff (video). This hints at a prediction I made last year, that perhaps the next wave of web development are experiences derived by the user rather than simply for the user. Ubiquity is also another great cas
Rod Begbie : Mozilla Labs: Introducing Ubiquity - Nifty new Firefox extension, taking the quicksilver shorty-cutty app-launcher approach to the web. Looks very promising. #
# copy
2 month ago
Andy Baio : YouTube Comment Snob, Firefox extension hides idiotic comments - customizable filter based on spelling errors, punctuation, and capitalization; the result is stark
Rod Begbie : YouTube Comment Snob - Firefox extensions which hides the most blatantly idiotic YouTube comments. Favourite filter: Uses Firefox's in-built dictionary to hide comments with too many spelling mistakes. [via] #
# copy
2 month ago
deusx : mozdev.org - vimperator: index - "Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings, and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in."
# copy
2 month ago
deusx : Universal Edit Button - Universal Edit Button - "The Universal Edit Button is a green pencil icon wiki.png in the address bar that indicates a web page is editable. It is similar to the orange "broadcast" RSS icon ExampleRSS.png that indicates there is an RSS feed available." Here&
# copy
