Planet MozillaPlanet Mozilla - http://planet.mozilla.org/Basil Hashem: AMO maintenance release - v3.4.5- July 12, 2008 This minor revision to AMO includes some fixes to some vexing problems as well as a few ease-of-use features. Weve added a slider mechanism to the front page so that you users iterate through five of the featured add-ons. Some of the bugs resolved include the dreaded version bumped add-on will not install, empty review pages (sometimes), and ability to see sandboxed versions of a public add-ons. For localizers: You can now upload language packs for applications. For Add-ons Authors: Previously,.http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/07/12/amo-maintenance-release-v345/ Songbird: Honey, who moved my player controls- July 11, 2008 Right click on player control area in Gonzo Select Display at Top Player controls move to the top of the window! Kreeger landed the code earlier today so you should be able to try this out in tomorrows nightly build.http://feeds.songbirdnest.com/~r/songbird-blog/~3/333112124/ Trent Mick: Translating Komodo on babelzilla.org- July 11, 2008 At the prompting of dafi (one of Komodos more active users) and with goofys help Ive uploaded a Komodo Language Pack with Komodos current en-US localization to BabelZilla. We get requests for localizations of Komodo every so often, but lack the resources to do this ourselves. Given a number of good translations here, I can start providing language pack extensions to Komodos add-ons site. This is a trial balloon that I really hope turns out well. I remember having a great chat with Michal...http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2008/07/11/translating-komodo-on-babelzillaorg/ Atul Varma: The Future of the Internet, How to Stop It, and Me- July 11, 2008 A few weeks ago, Oxford University professor Jonathan Zittrain recommended Firefox 3 on The Colbert Report. While getting the bump for the browser from this great show was certainly a win for Mozilla, more provocative was the new book Zittrain was discussing with Colbert, entitled The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Contrary to the Luddism Id assumed the books title impliede.g., that the Internet is a terrible thing and needs to be dismantledZittrain instead celebrates how open and..http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=53 Dan Mosedale: Interesting study about instant messaging and interruptions...- July 11, 2008 Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption...http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dmose/archives/2008/07/interesting_study_about_instan.html Mark Finkle: Extension Developers - Dont Fear Firefox 3.1- July 11, 2008 Firefox 3 had some big changes (and little changes) that caused some grief for extension developers wanting to update add-ons to the newest version. There were some deep architectural changes (Places bookmarking API), numerous security changes (same-origin on file: and restricting chrome: from content), and large UITheme changes (URLbar, XPVistaLinuxMac themes). Needless to say, getting lots of new greatness in Firefox 3 (XULRunner 1.9) came at a high maintenancerefactor cost to extension...http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2008/07/extension-developers-dont-fear-firefox-31/ Calendar: July 11, 2008 LightningSunbird Status Update- July 11, 2008 With all the developers talking here now, it probably makes sense to also show you, what we've done in terms of real bug-fixing in the last few weeks. So within the last three weeks 28 bugs were fixed. Here's the list of all these changes: Bug 358695:WeekMultiday view: vertical time column too wide, should be narrower Bug 370150:API enhancement: additions for group scheduling Bug 375631:New TASK column: Days to Due Bug 392561:Need to revise provider error notifications Bug 396819:Event Summary.http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2008/07/july_11_2008_lightningsunbird.html Robert Helmer: releases on tap- July 11, 2008 One of the things that was pounded into me while working at MoCo is the idea of having a bug tracker and using it. I literally cant work without one anymore. Its the first thing I really pushed for at my new job (they were using various ad-hoc systems for project management, but not a real bug tracker for the software dev side). Ive realized that I just cant keep everything in my head, various notepads and text files, etc. and expect to get anything done, or let anyone know what my priorities...http://roberthelmer.com/blog/?p=37 David Ascher: Who do we need to build and promote an open internet- July 11, 2008 To jump in in the discussion between e.g David Eaves, Marc Surman and Mitchell Baker about what the open internet is, let me try and insert a bridging perspective. Mitchell, very grounded in the Mozilla project, comes at the problem from the technology angle. I certainly agree that without a technological basis, its hard to make any kind of internet. In particular, I believe that trying to mandate openness through policy is very likely to fail. Cynically, I dont place much faith in a pure...http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/07/10/who-do-we-need-to-build-and-promote-an-open-internet/ Robert Accettura: Google Open Sources Browser Sync- July 11, 2008 Google decided to open source its no longer supported browser sync extension. You can find the Google Code project here. The other major extension in this category is Mozilla Weave. Im not sure what (if any) functionality might be gained by combining efforts, though Ive seen some suggestions around the web to that effort. Anyone dig into that source code Googles on roll with open source lately.http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/07/10/google-open-sources-browser-sync/ |