06.11.07 - 04:24pm
A few months ago I noticed that the video presentations on DevMo were rather unwieldy to watch… A 280 MB Quicktime download doesn’t exactly offer immediate gratification! So, I uploaded all the videos on that page to video.google.com, and today *finally* got around to editing the DevMo page to link to them. Share and [...]
06.06.07 - 04:03pm
I read Gerv’s post from earlier today (”Choice considered harmful”), as well as the predictable replies to it. It’s a rich topic to debate, but one thought that particularly strikes me is that with computers running billions of instruction per seconds (and increasing), software (un?)naturally grows in size and complexity to keep those CPUs warm [...]
05.28.07 - 05:20pm
As I’ve previously blogged about, I’ve been working on some changes to the Firefox Password Manager. The first part, a long slog of untangling and porting the old C++ code to JS, is now complete.
The code landed earlier this month via bug 374723, and as part of the change it’s been renamed to “Login Manager”. [...]
04.03.07 - 07:18pm
In late March, support for Animated PNGs (APNGs) landed on the Mozilla trunk. The web can finally ditch GIF-format animations, as the APNG format offers a superior feature set… Most notably, full 24-bit color and alpha transparency. I was eager to try this out, but there were no editors to build such animations. What to [...]
04.03.07 - 02:34pm
I released an update to Chromatabs today… [Edit: It's no longer in the AMO Sandbox.]
This version adds the ability to color tabs based on the site’s favicon. (This is off by default; you can enable it in the extension’s preferences.]
Here’s what it looks like with a few select sites:
It’s just averaging the pixels in the [...]
02.05.07 - 04:46pm
Last week there were quite a few meetings being held to refine the Firefox 3 product requirements. One area of particular interest to me, identity and password management, is firming up nicely. There are a lot of interesting features people have been asking for, and the Password Manager will need some significant changes to support [...]
