Bugzilla

The Mozilla Foundation tracks its bugs via the Bugzilla tool (another Mozilla product). Over the time that I've spent using Firefox, I've opened a few bugs. I'll list them here individually: 248350, 248352, 292498, 296266, 296399, 296462. Here's a general query: here.

Most users probably don't realize that anybody can open bugs in this fashion, track the progress of fixes and talk with developers in bug reports. Depending on the area under which your bug is found, you may see "instant" response (i.e. within a few minutes a developer may offer a fix) but for others response can be quite a bit longer. It all depends on priority, of course.

Anyway, all it takes is to sign up for a free account (available from the link above but if that link seems to hang you can just go go here). The only problem I see is that the Bugzilla database queries are too slow for mass consumption.

§102 · June 6, 2005 · Firefox, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Bugzilla ·

Website Cissifying

I spent some time over the last couple days updating my website in three ways:

  1. Separation between content and presentation by using CSS. It's not perfect yet, but it's much more manageable. Minor tweaks to the UI to make it a little prettier.
  2. Update site-wide all pages to better use PHP in a modular fashion. The user sees no benefit from this.
  3. Added a SVG menu and masthead. To see the cool effects, you need an SVG-enabled browser like a Firefox nightly build (1.1 Alpha) or for Internet Explorer you can download the Adobe SVG plug-in (the most complete SVG implementation so far available). Opera supports SVG Tiny, but unfortunately it's still a little buggy and feature-shy (moreso than even Mozilla's implementation).
§101 · June 3, 2005 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Website Cissifying ·

Writing Proper SVG for Mozilla

Jonathan Watt, one of the main Mozilla SVG developers sent me a link to this document which he's working on to help instruct the world how to write proper SVG which Mozilla+SVG will be able to render. Give it a read and send him some feedback.

By the way, I downloaded the latest Deer Park Alpha Build (Firefox 1.1 Alpha) and it has SVG enabled by default.

§98 · May 27, 2005 · Firefox, Software, SVG, Technology, Tips, Web · Comments Off on Writing Proper SVG for Mozilla ·

Netscape 8 Breaks Internet Explorer 6

As just reported in the IE Blog and in numerous other blogs/newsgroups (here, here, here), apparently installation of Netscape 8 breaks Microsoft Internet Explorer 6's ability to render XML via XSLT. Could this be the final nail in Netscape Browser's coffin?

§97 · May 25, 2005 · Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Netscape 8 Breaks Internet Explorer 6 ·

Deploying For The Live Web

I've been pecking a way at this online chat program that I started as an excuse to learn some JavaScript and enhance my PHP skills (as well as get around a certain corporate firewall). It's coming along nicely. Tonight I added a RSS feed for it so that users can monitor the most recent conversation without having to be constantly logged in. I've been trying to figure out a good way to manage the deployment of the web application. Read the rest of this entry ...

§96 · May 24, 2005 · Ajax, JavaScript, PHP, Software, Technology, Tips, Web · Comments Off on Deploying For The Live Web ·

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