Software As She’s Developed

Firefox 3.0 ticker tape parade Today is Firefox 3.0 landing day. Maybe tomorrow as the servers have been down for many hours now. Funny how Twitter is up, but Mozilla is down…it feels like today is the Juneth of 18. Anyway, this is great news as you could wile away a few lazy hours tweeting and […]

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<gush> Firebug is awesome. Joe Hewitt is a legend. As I’ve said before, Firebug is among the most usable software tools ever developed. I don’t just mean compared to other software development tools. I mean against all user-facing software. It’s single-handedly improved my Ajax productivity by at least 100% (that’s my estimate when making changes to larger […]

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Just mailed Joe Hewitt a couple of suggestions for the bug. Hi Joe, A couple of firebug suggestions. (1) Search On the Ajaxian interview, you mentioned people have trouble locating and knowing about the existence of Search. (Me too.) Redesigning the layout will help, but I’d also suggest retaining the standard alt/control-F shortcut somehow, as I’m sure a lot […]

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Welcome to Ye Olde Ajax Patterns Podcaste, the final in this series that began twelve months ago. 3+4+4+1 = 12 podcasts in all, covering 71 patterns (the 70 patterns in the the book as well as Dyanmic Favicons). Find them all on the podcast category - http://www.softwareas.com/category/podcast/ or subscribe to the podcast feed at http://www.softwareas.com/podcast/rss2. Thanks […]

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I recently explained how I created my first Greasemonkey script as an experiment, then converted it to a standalone Firefox plugin/extension/add-on using an automated tool. Official homepage here. The experiment continues, as I subsequently submitted it to Mozilla, and it’s now been approved as an official plugin. I’ve been curious about the process people go through […]

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My previous post outlined Domain Teleporter, a first attempt at a GM script. Continuing the experimentation (as I have a comlpetely different real example in mind), I wanted to see how easy it was to create a self-contained FF extension from the GM script … I figure there’s a significant population who have FF and […]

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Update: As an experiment, converted this into a Firefox extension (Blog Article, Extension homepage) DomainTeleporter, my first Greasemonkey script, is related to this blog post from last April: If you shop at Amazon.co.uk, you’re often out of luck when it comes to reader comments. So I often find myself editing the URL, switching back and forth between […]

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Jeff Attwood points out that on w3schools, a huge majority of developers are still using IE. About 60% IE and 25% Firefox. Amazingly 2.3% are still using Mozilla (why?). Unfortunate that 60% of developers aren’t using IE … but the reality is many don’t have much choice…they’ll be working in corporate-standard windows environments, where IE already […]

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Local storage - beyond 2KB cookies - is now a step closer with the latest Firefox effort. You get a local storage API like this: PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: sessionStorage.setItem(..) globalStorage.namedItem(domain).setItem(..) The fantastic thing is Brad Neuberg's Dojo work means we can code independently of the local storage mechanism. Since IE also has local storage, as well as Flash, most [...]

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Setting up a new Windows PC today and not loving the browser warnings. The messages, as I recall them: "You are about to submit the form. It's dangerous.", "You're going to leave the page. It's dangerous.", "This page is encrypted. It's dangerous.", "This page is not encrypted. It's dangerous.", "This is H20. It's dangerous." So my question [...]

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