It used to be the case that I pored over Mozilla (and later Firefox) release notes. But I stopped sometime in 2004, around the point when I accepted that XUL development was too hard to be doing in my spare time and yes, Firefox was clearly better than IE at just about everything. This means that I now miss all the cool announcements

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Mozilla 1.7 RC1 now has Support for the CSS3 opacity property. (via web-graphics). As the commentators there have pointed out, Safari has had this for a little while now, and Opera can’t ...

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Hot damn! Mozilla RDF has a new module owner who has this to say: We gonna push for both standards conformance (there are new specs out there since early 2004) and scriptability for remote web applications. This will include some serious whacking of the RDF API in Mozilla, as that is not ready for the web by a fair amount. Great! I’ve run into a couple o...

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The Mozilla link toolbar doesn’t work as well as Firefox’s link toolbar extension does. For about a year now I’ve had rel="bookmark" on the permanent links to my posts, and these have quite merrily appeared in Firefox’s link toolbar, and I’ve just added rel="section" to links to my monthly archives, and these also appear...

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Woohoo! Quotes nesting has been implemented in Mozilla!

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I think Anil Dash is missing a trick. Anil says Platforms, not programs. But why? The most widely-known application-as-a-platform of recent years is probably Mozilla, and has that succeeded in real terms? No.

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AOL: New Mozilla-based Netscape 7.x coming shocker AOL are going to be releasing a new version of the Netscape 7 browser based on a recent Mozilla milestone. This is really awesome. Despite AOL’s financial, uh, downturn millions of people use it around the world, and know it as a brand (let alone as a coaster manufacturer). Hopefully bundling the latest ...

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Wolfgang is now onto part 3 of Developing XUL-Applications with Mozilla Today’s lesson: event driven update of the tree control Read and enjoy.

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Developing XUL-Applications with Mozilla is looking to be an excellent and practical look at constructing a functional XUL application with Mozilla. Genius stuff. I know that whenever I try to get something even mildly complex going, I keep running into problems,

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This may be violating the license agreement, but I now have FeedDemon working using the Gecko rendering engine instead of IE’s. It works surprising wel I’ve known about the Mozilla ActiveX project for ages (genuinely one of the best and most useful things anyone could be doing with Mozilla), but never g...

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