Monday, October 27th, 2008
Just a quick post about a problem I ran into earlier today. It seems that when using Javascript in Firefox 3 with document.implementation.createDocument to create XML documents (for XmlHttpRequest), the encoding stays as ISO-8859-1 instead of Unicode (UTF-8). What it really should be doing, is making the encoding same as ...
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
I am currently writing an follow-up full length article for OperaWatch on the Mozilla's RSS icon and its licensing. Unlike the previous OperaWatch story, this story is focused less on the Opera/Mozilla interaction and more on the actual RSS icon, its history, licensing issues and opinions of different communities involved. ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
My good friend Daniel Goldman posted an interesting story at OperaWatch regarding the fact that Mozilla required a singed agreement from Opera Software before allowing them to use their RSS icon. It appears that Mozilla filed for trademarks on this icon and is planning on enforcing a licensing policy. More ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
I recently ran across a nifty project called "TiddlyWiki". One of the things that struct me as interesting features from the programming point of view is the fact that it is able to load and save itself to the user's hard drive using Javascript without any kind of server side ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
For quite some time I have been trying to track down a strange Javascript error. In one of the forms in our application, we have a dynamically generated set of DOM form fields generated on the fly via Javascript. Something like "document.myForm.appendField(field);". The page in question worked just fine in ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Among the more persistent bugs I have been chasing recently involves a set of interrelated windows. The case in point was a parent window (A) that opened a child window (B) via JavaScript. The child window (B) was set to check whether the parent window (A) is still open before ...
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Sometimes you can guess that a software product has become mainstream enough when a big company starts supporting it. I think this is exactly what just happened with FireFox: Google just announced support for "pre-fetching" - a feature ONLY available on Mozilla browsers. This is a refreshing breath of air ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
I finally got around to upgrading my Mozilla Mail installation to the new Thunderbird client. Unfortunatly, it went less smoothly than I have hoped but it worked. At first, I followed the instructions provided by David Tenser. Unfortunatly, on the Linux side I ran across a rather nasty bug which ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
The Mozilla Foundation has finally announced its plans for the Mozilla Suite (the combined browser/email client/IRC that evolved from Netscape). There will be no future 1.8 releases and only 1.7.x updates as needed. However on the other hand there is a group of folks that are organizing to continue work ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
With the announcement of a second Mozilla developer joining Google, rumors are now afoot about a possible Google browser. However what some are failing to notice are reasons why Google is benefiting from Mozilla right now. Two examples:
1. The default start page for Mozilla FireFox is at Google with a ...
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