Plans for the day

In the kitchen

I'll probably just order from Pizza Hut

Around the house

Haven't decided what the weekend project will be yet. Maybe get some posters framed & hung up. Gotta do some cleaning too.

On the blog

More stuff to post from the past week. Plus a roundup of what I'm doing with Mozilla extensions and the places I've been hanging out online lately.

Safari

As it's been covered a lot all over blogdom already, I won't get into Safari too much here. I grabbed it and installed on the Mac at work. It's fast. It's still beta. It rendered my pages nicely. I don't care really that they didn't choose Gecko, in fact I'm sort of happy they put another brrowser out there to press the compatibility and standards angle.

We used to code for Netscape and IE. Then it became IE and maybe make it work with IE. Had Apple chosen Gecko, we might have been back to "Gecko and IE" but Safari gives me some hope that we'll see folks coding to the standards (assuming standards support is cleaned up on Safari) and then hacking to make it work with IE. Now we've got a "Linux browser" on a new OS (Safari is built around KHTML, which is part of Konqueror, which is part of KDE.

Probably the best place to keep abreast of the news & reactions is at David Hyatt's blog - he's a Mozilla member who has been working for Apple for quite some time on Safari (thus the hopes/rumors/expecctations that safari would be built around Gecko).

This one too

shaver's blog is pretty good too. Clean, simple, easy to read. And the hover effects, while subtle, add a lot.

I like this layout

Danial Glazman's blog is really slick-looking. His home page is even wilder, very innovative.

Bounty-coders!

I offer a US $ or € reward of 500 for somebody fixing the bug.

From the comments of Bug 134492. Now there's some incentive! Found on Stephen's Blog

Anything I can do...you can't?

Neil points to an updated list of 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot. Looks like he's answered some of the previous criticisms of the list and added/updated a couple.

My first bug

Just filed my first Mozilla bug. All I wanted to do was buy tickets for the Rollins show at the end of the month. Had to use IE instead. Ugh.

This is the one I want!

I think? Searching for a good univeral remote is a major pain. Especially if I might be replacing or augmenting some of my other equipment soon.

I forgot how fun Usenet can be

I spent a good chunk of time reading this thread in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html. Wow. Some people just don't get it. <b> is different from <strong>

On a related note, I am really enjoying this and similar newgroups, getting different perspectives on these issues. You don't get this much exposure just in the office, or just from reading books or a couple blogs.

Tracking the Gecko

Tracking Gecko Browser Statistics from Netscape DevEdge outlines how to properly track the new breed of Gecko-based browsers. Web stat software vendors, get cracking! There's a lot of software identifying itself as "Netscape 6" as far as you people are concerned - we need better numbers for our users. The package we have at work can't even pick AOL users out separate from regular IE.

Getting the word out

Now that I am actually starting to keep this up regularly, I'm trying to find ways to grow publicity. I've found that someone already got here via a link on Technorati by way of my linking to Brian Buck. BlogStreet seems to be ignoring me. Need to figure out how to get Blogrolling and RSS set up here.

For the car that has everything

RockNobs! Replace that old knob on your 5-speed with a stylin' hunk of...rock.

Web dev: OS X browser compatibility

Found on (I think) Mozillazine's forums a page listing the various browsers for MacOS X which outlines compatibility and standards support in each. Helpful for those of us without a Mac handy all the time.

Busy

Busy this week. Much to post, little time. Hopefully this weekend I can post my backlog.

In the kitchen

Last night was just some real nice steaks marinated, with mashed potatoes and corn.

Hey, he took my idea!

MIchael at Aldoblog is doing a "home improvement" project every day this year. I'm doing it every weekend, but same idea. So far his are all computer tasks but I'm sure that'll turn around.

CSS themes?

Scriptygoddess has a link to a batch of CSS themes. I was hoping that there'd be a large variety here but they're really just 10 small variations on the same theme.