Planet MozillaPlanet Mozilla - http://planet.mozilla.org/Stephen Lau: you say goodbye, i say hello- July 15, 2008 or rather, i guess i should be saying good to see you again. the OpenSolaris fan inside of me is sad to see my good friend Patrick Finch leave Sun. having seen his expertise and impact from both inside Sun and outside Sun, he will be missed greatly. Patrick has always been one of the most well-thought-out and eloquent supporters of OpenSolaris (as much as it pains me to admit that a Liverpool FC fan can be eloquent, Ill concede that he is indeed eloquent). hes had a huge impact on open...http://whacked.net/2008/07/14/say-goodbye-say-hello/ Frank Hecker: Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 20080711- July 15, 2008 This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 11, 2008. Projects for the week Heres a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others activities please see the blogs published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant. Legal issues Gerv worked on a variety of licensing issues involving software to be used in the context of the Mozilla project. Grants and related expenditures Gerv contacted..http://blog.hecker.org/2008/07/15/mozilla-foundation-activities-week-ending-20080711/ Frank Hecker: Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 20080704- July 15, 2008 This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 4, 2008. My apologies for the delay in posting this. Projects for the week Heres a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that week; for more information about others activities please see the blogs published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant. Mozilla Foundation future I did two posts related to the ongoing conversation about future Mozilla and Mozilla Foundation...http://blog.hecker.org/2008/07/15/mozilla-foundation-activities-week-ending-20080704/ Frank Hecker: Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 20080627- July 15, 2008 This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 27, 2008. My apologies for the delay in posting this. Projects for the week Heres a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that week; for more information about others activities please see the status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant. Mozilla Foundation future Lots of people started posting on the topic of what the Mozilla Foundation should be doing in the..http://blog.hecker.org/2008/07/15/mozilla-foundation-activities-week-ending-20080627/ Songbird: Sad Mac: PowerPC No Longer Officially Supported- July 15, 2008 The Songbird team recently had to make a difficult, but necessary, decision that will affect all Macintosh PowerPC users. Beginning with 0.7, and including all subsequent releases of Songbird, Mac PPC builds will no longer be officially supported. Specifically, this means that Songbird 0.6.1 will be the last official Songbird release that supports the Mac PPC architecture. All other other Songbird platforms and versions Windows XPVista, Linux 32- and 64-bit, and Mac OS X Intel will continue...http://feeds.songbirdnest.com/~r/songbird-blog/~3/335674859/ Atul Varma: Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality- July 15, 2008 Lately some of us at Mozilla Labs have been experimenting with graphical keyboard user interfaces in Firefox. Our current work-in-progress is something that were calling Ubiquity for the time being, though the name is by no means set in stone. Ubiquity is heavily informed by Enso, a software product developed by me and my colleagues at Humanized from 2005-07. Aside from the benefits outlined in Alex Faaborgs blog post entitled The Graphical Keyboard User Interface, this experiment is intended.http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=54 Shawn Wilsher: Sheriff Duty- July 15, 2008 Im up for sheriff duty this Thursday, and I thought I might try something that people have discussed many times. Its a bit radical, and Im not sure if people will like it though. The idea is to only have the sheriff push changesets. This way, the sheriff can push things at a rate heshe is comfortable with, and stay on top of all the performance charts and random oranges. If it happens to be a slow day, Ill be going through the checkin-needed bugs and pushing those as well. It makes...http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/163 Giorgio Maone: I Own Your Rapidshare Accounts- July 15, 2008 As nktpro graciously told us, the latest of several XSS vulnerabilities affecting Rapidshare is still unpatched, one month after it had been reported to the site owners. But what can you expect by people who stores both your username and password inside your cookie Yes, check it by yourself: a Rapidshare cookie is something like user=12345-%36%37%38%39%30. In Javascript, cookie = "username=" + login + "-" + pwd.replace(.g, function(s) "%" + (s.charCodeAt(0).toString(16))) Therefore, for a given.http://hackademix.net/2008/07/15/i-own-your-rapidshare-accounts/ Shawn Wilsher: Asynchronous Storage API- July 15, 2008 That asynchronous storage API Ive been working on for a while has finally been pushed to mozilla-central. That means you can now run database queries off the main thread without blocking the UI. This includes both read and write statements. This may not seem like a big deal, but there is a big benefit to using this API over the existing synchronous API. SQLite performs a file system operation called fsync which pushes the data in the file systems cache to the disk. This operation is...http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/162 Myk Melez: Snowl: an experiment with messaging in the browser- July 15, 2008 Last August, after Mitchell blogged about the future of email and penned an email call to action, I posted some thoughts about what a next-generation conversations app might look like. I've kept thinking about it since then, and several months ago I proposed a labs experiment to build a Firefox extension that tries out some of those ideas. Lots of users use desktop applications like Thunderbird and Apple Mail to converse with each other online, while many others use web apps, including not...http://www.melez.com/mykzilla/2008/07/snowl-experiment-with-messaging-in.html |