Hacking for ChristGervase MarkhamTigers and Foxes- June 19, 2008 It looks like we weren't the only people breaking the Interweb yesterday: a lot of people were watching Tiger Woods at the US Open. That can't have helped... 10,722,518 download as I write. Awesome....http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/tigers_and_foxes.html Party Eye Candy- June 17, 2008 The venue for the Firefox 3 Launch Party, London has a big screen. I want to do some Mozilla-related eye candy which can run during the party. And perhaps other party hosts do too. There was an early mozilla.party (this one) where they did a cool super-fast green-screen scrolling syntax-highlighted code thing. I have written this script (Perl; requires enscript; run it in your top-level Mozilla directory), which produces a similar effect, and anyone is welcome to use it. I've also used Flickr...http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/party_eye_candy.html Language Coverage - Version 1.1- June 16, 2008 I have released an updated version of my language coverage data - its home is now a web page rather than a blog post. Among the new features are: Several bug fixes and data improvements; the Firefox percentages have gone up but, sadly, so have the IE ones. Information on Opera. A new line showing how IE fares if you don't include LIPs. A new line for "registered l10n teams" A tab which shows that if a browser team were using this data to guide where to put l10n team effort, what...http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/language_analysis_version_11.html Extension Idea: Last Textarea- June 14, 2008 Ever start composing an email, bug comment or something else in a web page, switch to another app or page to find something out, and then get lost and end up looking through loads of tabs to find the one you were typing in (For me, this seems particularly a problem when using Bugzilla.) How about an extension which enabled a key combo which immediately switched you to the last tab in which you typed in a <textarea> When you've finished your researchother task, just press that button and...http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/extension_idea_last_textarea.html London Firefox Launch Party: Venue- June 13, 2008 The Firefox 3 Launch Party, London will be in the function room of the Shooting Star pub near Liverpool Street station, from 7pm next Thursday the 19th of June. See the party page for details. There's a big screen to which computers can be attached, so bring your laptop with cool demos and other stuff. Please sign up if you are coming. See you then!...http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/london_firefox_launch_party_venue.htm... Download Day- June 13, 2008 For my non-Mozilla readers, given that Mozilla people will know about this already: Firefox 3 is due for release next Tuesday, and we are attempting to set a Guiness World Record for most copies of a bit of software downloaded in 24 hours. Head over to the pledge site, pledge to download, and then, when Tuesday comes, do so! Firefox 3 rocks - here's a load of reasons why....http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/download_day.html Firefox 3 Language Coverage- June 12, 2008 Note: this isn't the full picture; some people have been very helpful in pointing out stuff I've missed. Please continue to send in feedback, and I'll post an updated version in a couple of days. I have been attempting to figure out what percentage of the net population will get the upcoming Firefox 3 (June 17th!) in their native language ("heart language"). We're doing 48 different localizations. I've attempted this before, but I have been limited by the quality of data available....http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/firefox_3_language_coverage.html HTML5 Video - Codec Downloader- June 11, 2008 It looks like the implementation of HTML5 <video> in Firefox will use the native system media framework (DirectX, QuickTime, GStreamer) rather than come with any built-in codecs. This decision has certain implications for cross-OS web video interoperability. There are very few or no formats that Windows, Mac and free Linux all can and do support. So a Firefox codec downloader might be a good addition to core Firefox. Like the plugin finder, when it encountered media using a codec which it.http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/html5_video_codec_downloader.html New Committer's Agreement- June 10, 2008 We've just published version 2.0 of the Mozilla Committer's Agreement0 (PDF), which used to be the CVS Contributor Form. This is the document everyone signs in order to get permission to check in to our repositories. There's a FAQ about the new version. Among the changes are: Generalise to all SCMs and accounts; Agreement is now with the Mozilla Foundation, a real legal entity; Information on permitted licences has been updated; ...and various other tweaks to match current practice. We would...http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/new_committers_agreement.html New Licence Policy- June 5, 2008 After several months of development, version 2.0 of the mozilla.org Licence Policy has just been published. All code added to our repositories needs to comply with the policy. It also attempts to document the current licensing status of all the code that we maintain. There shouldn't be anything surprising in there, but if there is, or you see a mistake, let me know....http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/06/new_licence_policy.html |