While testing some updates to one of our Facebook applications today, I ran into an odd error message on IE8. The error message mentioned KB927917, and is caused by trying to modify the DOM before it is built. At first, I was confused, because the app is not modifying the DOM at all, its a […]
Hoping to test out the latest beta of Mozilla’s Mobile Firefox but have a myTouch 3G? You may be out of luck, while the official builds don’t support the chip in the device, there is an Arm 6 build which is listed as compatible. I downloaded it and tried to install it, but it wouldn’t install either,
Wow! Mozilla Weave is a PHP application that you can run on your own server. Weave lets you sync data – bookmarks, passwords, and more – between Firefox on separate computers. HT: Untangling the Web with Mozilla Weave. Syncing passwords and bookmarks is old hat. Mozilla Weave, a Mozilla Labs project is a tool designed
Good to see someone is finally asking their users to upgrade to IE6. I hope more websites start ignoring support for IE6 soon, since its such a headache to cater to. Of course, each will have to make its own cost-benefit decision, but we’re pretty close to the point that for most sites, supporting IE6
I’ve been using the Firefox 3 betas for a few months, and now actual release candidates are coming out of Mozilla HQ. I made the switch because Firefox 2 was causing the load on my work PC to spike randomly , leaving the machine useless for a stretches lasting seconds. The performance tweaks for memory
I spent 10 minutes looking for an extension to do this, then found that its, smartly, built into Firefox’s bookmark manager. I’m not sure what this mindset is called, Extension Dependance? Anyway, if you need to move bookmarks from one machine to the other in Firefox: From the Bookmarks menu, select Organize Bookmarks. Choose Export…
News to make any Firefox fan sleep a little easier at night. While Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) is being installed more widely, its replacing installations of IE6. That in and of itself shouldn’t be that surprising. However, the forced upgrade to IE7 hasn’t eaten into the Firefox share at all. In the US, that share
IE7 more prevalent, overall IE share of browsers is down. Read More »
Of course, you know I’m going to tell you to install Firefox 2.0 once its released, and I don’t have a windows XP machine so no trying out the newly released IE7. By the way, did you see that security vulnerabilities were already found for IE7, less than 24 hours after its release? I’m using
Scott Rosenberg draws an interesting parallel between Microsoft’s attempt to rewrite Windows, and the Bush administration’s foray into Iraq. Of course, the two aren’t morally equivalent, but its a good intellectual excercise with more than a shred of validity. Then he says, “It wasn’t executed.” Note the passive voice, correct for it: “We didn’t execute
Google Calendar has launched if you want to check it out. There is also an overview of the features available. Will this be a compelling calendaring solution? After looking it over and checking out the website, I think it might be for me. I’ve setup DAV on apache before so that I can have a