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Alert: Security Update for Firebug
Joe Hewitt has released a security update to his excellent FireBug Firefox addon. About an hour ago I received word of a 0-day security exploit that has been discovered and reported. I have just...
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That's so 1999
Lots of trees (and pixels) have given their lives over the past 10 or 12 years to fuel the endless debate about graceful degradation, progressive enhancement and the separation of style and behavior...
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The awesome state of JavaScript development tools
Dietrich’s post on the depressing state of IE develpment tools got me to thinking about the generally wonderful state of JavaScript tooling. Compared to just a few short years ago, we’ve got a wealth...
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IBM's CoScripter: Greasemonkey for non-geeks
Think of all those annoying step-by-step processes you must learn and memorize to go about your daily online business: logging onto your bank site to check the balance on your savings account; filling...
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Mash Note: Foxmarks bookmark synchronizer
All bookmark sync utilities are not created equal. Plenty of browser add-ons promise to keep your favorites in sync across computers, while Del.icio.us and its ilk host your links up in the cloud. For...
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Songbird 0.3: Why aren't Ajax folks more geeked about "the Firefox of media...
Songbird, the open-source, Mozilla-based media player, received its 0.3 "developer pre-release" on Oct. 30. The UI hasn’t changed much since the 0.2.5 "developer preview," but things continue to evolve...
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More on Safari and the new Gmail upgrade
Over the weekend my Gmail finally got upgraded to the new version. (I know, I know, a week is hardly a long time to wait for a slow-rollout Google feature. But I’m impatient.) I have to say, the...
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Keeping up with Firefox 3: The agony and the ecstasy of full page-zoom
I’ve been playing with the page-zoom feature in Firefox 3 Beta 3. Thanks to the hard work of the Mozilla folks, Firefox is now the third major browser (behind Opera and IE7) to support this feature....
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Getting semantic and DRY with microformats and Radiant CMS
I can now cross Microformats off my list of “technologies whose value I recognize even though I’ve never had the chance to use them in real life.” Last week I created three hcards for the new...
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Developer’s Notebook: Find computed styles in IE, Firefox, Opera or Safari
At my recent Web 2.0 Expo talk, I exhorted developers to get comfortable outside the Firebug/Firefox safety zone. By rotating between Opera, Safari and even IE as our primary development environments,...
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