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><?xml version="1.0"?> ><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> > ><channel> > <title>Planet Mozilla</title> > <link>http://planet.mozilla.org/</link> > <language>en</language> > <description>Planet Mozilla - http://planet.mozilla.org/</description> > ><item> > <title>Firefox Metrics Project: MozMetrics IRC channel!</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://mozmetrics.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/mozmetrics-irc-channel/</guid> > <link>http://mozmetrics.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/mozmetrics-irc-channel/</link> > <description><div class="snap_preview"><p><a href="irc://moznet/%23mozmetrics" target="_blank">irc://moznet/%23mozmetrics</a> for ChatZilla</p> ><p>#mozmetrics on irc.mozilla.org for everybody else.</p> ></div></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:48:53 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>trgladwe</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Firefox Metrics Project: Initial Module Diagram</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://mozmetrics.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/initial-module-diagram/</guid> > <link>http://mozmetrics.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/initial-module-diagram/</link> > <description><div class="snap_preview"><p><a href="http://mozmetrics.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/module-diagram.jpg" title="Inital Module Diagram">Inital Module Diagram</a></p> ></div></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:11:47 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>trgladwe</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>AllPeers: Mozpad API Project Status</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/17/mozpad-api-project-status/</guid> > <link>http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/17/mozpad-api-project-status/</link> > <description><p>Our shell wizard Jakub wrote me a script to analyze our source code and list all nsI* interfaces that we use, along with the occurrence count for each one. Here are <a href="http://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=api_analysis&quot;">the results</a>. The script is a quick-and-dirty first version that needs to be extended to eliminate false positives (ânsIâ in the middle of a word, ânsIâ followed by a lowercase letter, etc.) and to add other interface prefixes (e.g. mozI*). Concrete suggestions would be most appreciated.</p> ><p>Once the script is a bit more mature Iâll start bugging other companies and projects to run it and give us the results. Over time Iâd like to get a page per interface onto the Mozpad wiki, linking to the corresponding page on MDC and adding info about who is using it, how much and for what purpose(s). This information should be invaluable in deciding what should and shouldnât go into the SDK.</p></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:12:57 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Doug Warner: Admin meeting for 2007-07-17</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.silfreed.net/blog/440</guid> > <link>http://www.silfreed.net/blog/440</link> > <description><p>Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), >Eric Jung (ericjung), Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale, (cdn-work), >Brian King (kinger), Dave Townsend (Mossop)</p> ><p>Discussion was held publically in #mozdev</p> ><p>Discussed Doug's developer priorities: ></p><ul> ><li>Unstarted projects list - receiving Mic's help to implement in production</li> ><li>Making progress on blog/wiki/forums - see Doug's ><a href="http://www.silfreed.net/blog/437">post detailing progress</a></li> ></ul> >Doug might take a break from Drupal towards the end of the week to look into >implementing the next set of priorities: ><a href="http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15887" title="Support a full-fledged Bonsai installation">Bonsai</a> >, >LXR (<a href="https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2096" title="LXR option ?raw=1 not working">2096</a>, ><a href="https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4706" title="LXR's Text Search doesn't work">4706</a>) >, and ><a href="https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11890" title="Set up subversion test server">Subversion</a> > ><p>Mic and Ivan have been very busy this week and haven't made any progress >on the mirror bugs or project stats.</p> ><p>Dave Townsend was invited by Eric Jung to try to clarify the Firefox 3 >secure update questions we have. We were able to determine that: ></p><ul> ><li>SSL is not requried if updateHash is provided in the updates.rdf and >the updates.rdf is signed with a public/private key (see <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/User_talk:Mossop:Fx-Docs:AddonUpdateSecurity"> >Mossop's user-talk page</a>)</li> ><li>addons.mozilla.org is in the same situation Mozdev is since its mirrors >only provide HTTP (non-SSL) downloads as well</li> ><li>Dave will be providing a tool to do the keysigning (cross-platform) >that will be available before FF3 is released that should make it easy >to sign updates (maintained by Mozilla)</li> ><li>We'll post documentation about how to sign your extension for working >with FF3</li> ></ul></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:43:14 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>silfreed</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>AllPeers: Spreading Firefox in Europe</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/17/spreading-firefox-in-europe/</guid> > <link>http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/17/spreading-firefox-in-europe/</link> > <description><p>I donât know <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2007/07/new_xiti_number.html">if youâre serious</a>, Asa, but this is a <em>fantastic</em> idea. Iâm not sure what kind of prize you can give to a whole country (a new gas pipeline?) or who exactly we would give it to, but a contest for the first European country to cross the 50% mark could potentially get us a ton of publicity here in Europe. I can totally see the Czech press writing about this and vaunting our not entirely ridiculous 36.6%. I donât think that most people realize how exceptionally successful Firefox has been in Europe, and this could help greatly to get the word out.</p> ><p>Perhaps the best kind of prize would be virtual: a congratulatory banner on mozilla.com for a week or something. Iâm not really in a position to be more than a cheerleader for this (though we could help with Czech press contacts) but I hope someone who is will pick up the ball and run with this.</p></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Daniel Glazman: FullerScreen progress</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2007/07/17/3693-fullerscreen-progress</guid> > <link>http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2007/07/17/3693-fullerscreen-progress</link> > <description>slide counter >total of slides >text and image zoom depending on the viewport's size >XBL turning an HTML table into an SVG chart >more progress on the editor in FullerScreen Pro...</description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:25:02 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Daniel Glazman</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Brian King: On Top Again</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=248</guid> > <link>http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/?p=248</link> > <description><p>Old news at this point ⦠but Slovenia came out on top again in the latest <a href="http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/barometre-des-navigateurs/firefox-juillet-2007/index-1-1-3-102.html">XitiMonitor results</a> for Firefox usage, reaching 47.9%. A remarkable achievement for any demographic. Nice to see that Ireland made a leap of +13.7 since the last time around.</p> ><p>While I am not opposed to the idea of getting/giving random hugs in the street, as <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/world_slovenia_day.html">Gerv suggests</a>, the prospect of getting a whack and/or arrested make <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2007/07/new_xiti_number.html">Asaâs suggestion</a> much more attractive. What form a prize would take to the user community that first reaches 50% I donât know, but Iâd be happy to help dish it out. Come on Slovenia, <a href="http://jlp.holodeck1.com/blog/2007/07/15/worldwide-slovenia-day-is-coming/">you can do it</a>! ></p></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:55:04 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>brian</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Tristan Nitot: Firefox market share update</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">urn:md5:152debc1e65cb86efa4a26b59eb0bcf0</guid> > <link>http://standblog.org/blog/post/2007/07/17/Firefox-market-share-update</link> > <description><p>XitiMonitor has published a couple of days ago a new report about Firefox' market share in Europe, <a href="http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/barometre-des-navigateurs/firefox-juillet-2007/index-1-1-3-102.html" hreflang="fr">approaching 28%</a>. Like <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39288052,00.htm" hreflang="en">I told ZDNet UK</a>, "It's a nice way to get started on a Monday morning!"</p> > > ><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitot/836635134/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1305/836635134_f07102d83b.jpg" alt="Firefox market share in Europe, July 2007. Source: XitiMonitor.com" /></a></p> > > ><p><em>Firefox market share in Europe, July 2007. <a href="http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/barometre-des-navigateurs/firefox-juillet-2007/index-1-1-3-102.html" hreflang="fr">Source: XitiMonitor.com</a></em></p> > > ><p>One could argue over statistics for ever. I have met with the Xiti team a few months ago to get a better understanding of what they measure. Basically, they have what they call <em>markers</em> (actually small images) on literally millions of Websites, mostly in Western Europe. This means they get billions of hits every month, and then analyse which browser engine were used to display these images. There are a few caveats, as always, in such measurements:</p> > ><ul> ><li>What they call <em>Firefox</em> is actually gecko-enabled browsers (mostly Firefox, but also Seamonkey, Epiphany and K-meleon);</li> ><li>They measure <em>hits</em>, not visitors. There is a difference, in the sense that Firefox users are generally more advanced than IE users (they know what a browser is, and how to download and install software). Also, I understand that Firefox users are generally more likely to spend time online and visit more Websites.</li> ></ul> > ><p>To sum things up, XitiMonitor tracks "Gecko usage" more than "Firefox users". Both are correlated, but not identical. And both indicators are <a href="http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/07/firefox-takes-28-market-share-in-europe/" hreflang="en">consistently going upwards</a> (Thanks Percy for the graphs!) In some countries such as Slovenia, Firefox has passed Internet Explorer. Gerv even wants to launch a <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/world_slovenia_day.html" hreflang="en">'Hug a Slovenian' campaign</a> <img src="http://standblog.org/dc-blog/themes/default/smilies/smile.png" alt=":-)" class="smiley" /></p> > > ><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nitot/836644910/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1380/836644910_4f05eb9315.jpg" alt="Firefox market share consistently going upward in Europe" /></a></p> > > ><p><em>Firefox market share consistently going upward in Europe</em></p> > > ><p>Just <a href="http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2007/07/15/3686-four-years" hreflang="en">four years ago this week</a>, AOL/Netscape/Time-Warner had decided to let go the Mozilla project, and the Mozilla Foundation was created. All of the employees paid to work on Mozilla were let go or reassigned to other tasks. Some of us decided not to give up, because the world needed a better, safer and more secure browser. While all of us hoped to make a difference, I'm not sure that many of us dreamt of seeing Firefox so successful on the market. Thank you to all of the contributors to the Mozilla project, who help build, test, promote and support a wonderful piece of software in close to 50 languages!</p></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Tristan</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>JT Batson: Join the Firefox Enterprise Working Group</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-3730740876653433986</guid> > <link>http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/2007/07/join-firefox-enterprise-working-group.html</link> > <description><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande; font-size: 100%;">Firefox has shown incredible growth in the consumer market over the past few years. We have done that through laser focus on developing a product with the user's interests driving our decisions (in addition to a little marketing and lots of happy users spreading the word). With that focus on users, we have not been as focused on serving large organizations. While we do know that some major corporations deploy Firefox, we haven't been able to address their needs with the same veracity that we have for individual users (luckily we are an open source organization!).<br /><br />To help figure out what can be done to make Firefox the best choice for enterprises (we define this as large companies as well as non-profits, educational institutions, governments and even medium size businesses), some Firefox community members have gathered to form the <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise">Firefox Enterprise Working Group.</a><br /><br />The group will take a similar approach to the <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support">Firefox Support Working Group:</a> understand the current state of the market, identify ways to improve our support of enterprise and build consensus around what action is possible by Mozilla community and MoCo. I am looking forward to working with them.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande; font-size: 100%;"><br /><br />Check out the info from the two community leaders Michael and Yuriy:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">What</span><br />The first Global call focused on the Enterprise Working Group around Firefox is currently scheduled for <span style="font-weight: bold;">July 25, 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Where</span><br />Please see <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise">http://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise</a> for Objectives, Rules of Engagement, and Dial-in Info.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">How</span><br />Each of the calls will be organized around a central theme, with the primary goal being to simply communicate information and document that information, in the hopes that people inside and outside the group can learn from our experiences.<br /><br />P.S. Figuring out enterprise is particularly important in locales where a majority of users access the internet through the workplace (or at least a large percentage of them). For us to ensure meaningful market share, we don't necessarily need a full outbound enterprise program overnight, but we do need to work well for those who are interested in using Firefox. That is what we are trying to figure.<br /></span></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:12:19 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>JT Batson</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Robert Sayre: More On iPhone Economics</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/16/more-on-iphone-economics/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/16/more-on-iphone-economics/</link> > <description><p>I previously predicted that Apple will have a Nintendoesque arrangement in place for iPhone native applications. Reading the <a href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-google-working-on-new-mobile-content-service/">mocoNews post</a> on Googleâs rumored mobile content service, it occurred to me that Appleâs strategy is just totally killer.</p> ><p>Though I like fancy electronics, Iâm not one of those people that rushes out to buy the newest thing on release day. I was pretty tempted by the iPhone, but out of curiosity, not technolust. However, I do understand why many people rushed out and bought one. Capitalizing on that impulse will lead to revenue smoothing that most CEOs fabricate. I think Apple will release new iPhones at intervals that are staggered with the AT&amp;T contract expirations. Want $100 off a next generation iPhone to replace your old iPhone? Just renew your contract before it expires! Now thatâs genius. <img src="http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:31:42 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>rsayre</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Robert Accettura: Does Firefox need to steal from Safari</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2007/07/16/does-firefox-need-to-steal-from-safari/</guid> > <link>http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2007/07/16/does-firefox-need-to-steal-from-safari/</link> > <description><p>Iâm a sucker for these kind of posts. I love users who share opinions, even if I disagree. Thereâs a blog post circulating about <a href="http://destraynor.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/151-9-things-Firefox-should-steal-from-Safari.html">9 things Firefox should steal from Safari</a>. Iâd like to go over it quickly:</p> ><h3>1. Highlight the current text field</h3> ><p>I agree. I really like the feature at least on the Mac. Iâm not sure it really works in an application that wants to feel native to Windows, but I guess you can debate that for a long time. There was a stalled effort to do this in <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251198">Bug 251198</a>. There hasnât been any activity there for a while. As I recall the general opinion around the web was lukewarm.</p> ><h3>2. Font rendering</h3> ><p>I personally agree that Appleâs font rendering is awesome. But there are many that think itâs an abomination. Joel on Software did a <a href="http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html">great writeup on font rendering</a> recently thatâs worth a read if your interested in the topic.</p> ><h3>3. The Downloads dialog</h3> ><p>Iâm ambivalent on this point. I kinda like how Firefox shows where itâs downloaded. Other than that, I donât see much of a difference. Then again, I donât live in the download manager. The only thing I really care about is the download status. Perhaps thatâs just me.</p> ><h3>4. <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> rendering Speeds</h3> ><p>There is a lot at play here. At a minimum David Hyattâs post on <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_05.html#005496">speed testing</a> is mandatory reading. A lot has been changed in Firefox 3.0, including a rewrite of incremental rendering and moving to Cairo. How will this effect performance both perceived and actual? I think itâs still to early to say.</p> ><h3>5. The bug reporter</h3> ><p>Iâd love to know what people think about this one, considering I wrote reporter for Firefox. At over a half million reports, I think itâs been pretty successful despite being buried in a menu and pretty much unadvertised. Iâd also love to improve it if someone has some <acronym title="User Interface">UI</acronym> enhancements to improve usability that make sense (Iâm against change for the sake of change). We donât show âthe bugâ by default in the toolbar. You need to <a href="http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2007/04/23/firefox-tip-customize-your-browser-ui/">customize the toolbar and add it yourself</a>. Obviously it isnât a feature worthy of such valuable screen real estate. Maybe it could be good to enable by default for debug/nightly builds? We talked about that at one time, but never took action on it.</p> ><h3>6. The Find dialog</h3> ><p>I hate the find dialog on the top, I think it belongs on the bottom. But I do agree that displaying the total number of results found would be a great little enhancement.</p> ><h3>7. Detachable tabs</h3> ><p>I still think this is such a Mac thing, but I do like it (Iâm a Mac guy, so perhaps Iâm bias). There was talk of this at one point. There is a mention of it in the <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Tabs,_Sidebar,_Windows#Attach.2FDetach_Tabs">brainstorming page for tabs, sidebar, windows</a> for Firefox 3.0, as well as an old bug (Bug <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113934">113934</a>). Currently you can drag a tab between windows, but it reopens in the new window (doesnât carry the state).</p> ><h3>8. Draggable images</h3> ><p>Is this a problem in Firefox?</p> ><p><strong>Update:</strong> I think itâs only an issue on the Mac.</p> ><h3>9. Resizable Text Areas</h3> ><p>I like the feature. There is an <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3818">extension</a> that will give you this functionality. Should it be part of the build? Iâm really not sure. Definately not for text inputs (it mucks up at times making a mess), only text areas where itâs handy. Though I wonder if this feature exists in more browsers, will designers by start making text areas so small that we have to expand them all before we can use them?</p> > <img width="1" style="display: none;" height="1" src="http://robert.accettura.com/wp-content/plugins/feed-statistics.php?view=1&amp;post_id=1454" /></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:29:13 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Mitchell Baker: Activities; Week of July 9 2007</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:weblogs.mozillazine.org,2007:/mitchell//29.18276</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/activities_week_of_july_9_2007.html</link> > <description><p>Last week I participated in an online question and answer / discussion session called <a href="http://air.mozilla.com/">Air Mozilla</a>. I thought someone might ask me a question like "Yes, but what do you actually <strong><em>do</em></strong> all day?" So I made some notes. If it's useful I'll try to do this periodically. Here are some of the things I spent time working on last week. There was also a bunch of product, organizational and other issues that are constant. I haven't listed them, only listed the things that jumped out at me as particular areas of focus last week.</p> > ><ul> > ><p></p><li> Mozilla Foundation Executive Director search. Spent time with the recruiter, potential search committee members and some resumes we've seen. > ><p></p></li><li> Mozilla Corporation General Counsel search. Interviewing, evaluating. > ><p></p></li><li> Speak at first Air Mozilla video broadcast. > ><p></p></li><li> Speak at <a href="http://www.timeinc.net/fortune/conferences/imeme/imeme_home.html">Fortune magazineâs imeme conference</a>. > ><p></p></li><li> Mozilla Foundation board topics in general. > ><p></p></li><li> Thunderbird. We know Thunderbird is overwhelmed by Firefox and web related work now. I'm convinced that's the right priority. So, how to help Thunderbird? How to improve mail in general? > ><p></p></li><li> Caught up with Brendan on state of work in the standards bodies. > ><p></p></li><li> <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/07/07/july-10-review-meeting-and-ithoughts-on-the-myphone/">Community Empowerment / Giving review of recent proposals</a>. > ><p></p></li><li> Finalized upcoming <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/e_sess/12942">talk at OSCON</a> (with much help). > ><p></p></li><li> Assist another open project on achieving sustainability as an independent project. > ><p></p></li><li> General management, product, organizational and recruiting topics (this covers a lot but is also true every week). > ><p></p></li><li> Stopped pretending my shoulder will get better without attention and started some minor physical therapy. > ></li></ul></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:11:54 +0000</pubDate> > <author>mitchell@mozilla.org, rochelle@mozilla.com (mitchell)</author> ></item> ><item> > <title>Anthony Hughes: Status Update</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2988987810182461396.post-6239470189134856163</guid> > <link>http://ashughes-mozilla.blogspot.com/2007/07/status-update.html</link> > <description>Well, it has been a while since my last blog post. So here goes with another round of quick updates of what has been going on in the last couple weeks.<br /><br />First off, we have all been working hard on getting 2.0.0.5 ready. Many of us have been long hours into the night and many weekend hours. It seems that once we had one problem solved and builds ready, another ugly problem would rear it's head. Fortunately, we have persevered and testing continues. Priority right now is getting this release out to the public as soon as it is ready. The sooner we can get it ready and signed off, the sooner we can get this build out the door and patch that IE/Firefox security bug that most of us have heard so much about.<br /><br />Secondly, I have been working a lot with Jay Patel trying to get a decent pool of ideas from members of the community for how we can both promote and expand community involvement with QA. The main target of this project is focussed but not limited to post-secondary schools. For more information, and to provide feedback, please click <a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/increasing+qa+footprint+through+students+and+professors">here</a>. The following is a quick excerpt from the post:<br /><blockquote>I think the first priority for us to get more people involved in QA at Mozilla is to get key people on the ground (students and professors) interested in supporting a local community. QA or otherwise. The majority of students are ignorant as to the many avenues available to them in the software industry. I know I was! Getting the word out is key. Also,I think that all the lessons learned by Dave and everything that he has accomplished can be mirrored to many other schools across the globe. </blockquote><br />Please do not be shy and do not hesitate to post any comments, feedback or ideas. The larger pool we have to draw from the better.<br /><br />On the lighter side of life, I have two trips to tell you about.<br /><br />The first was a trip I took down to the Santa Cruz area a couple weekends ago. The whole idea of going down to Santa Cruz was born out of boredom. Every weekend, the interns sit around wanting to do something (other than the communal pancake feast that inevitably ensues every saturday) but remain largely unmotivated to do anything. Having put up with this behaviour for far too long, I took it upon myself to plan a day trip to Santa Cruz. The message went out, "All those who want to come are welcome. I leave at 11am!" Initially, I received quite a lot of enthusiasm toward the idea. However, as the departure time approached, the level of motivation that I have grown accustomed to started to show itself. In the end, there were just three of us that went. I would like to think that we had a blast. The drive down CA-17 was interesting, especially in the intern van. The route down to Santa Cruz is a narrow, winding road that snakes through the mountains and the van isn't exactly the most nimble of vehicles at the best of times. The day involved some baking in the sun at the beach, a couple dips in the ocean, some more baking in the sun, a walk around the boardwalk, and an adventure to downtown Santa Cruz. For pictures of the entire event, please go <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/proud2bcan8dn/sets/72157600803383170/">here</a>. To give you a taste of how Santa Cruz was, here is a shot of my new best friend:<br /><img width="30%" height="30%" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1295/803522182_7d31667cfa.jpg" /><br /><br />The second trip I took was just this past Saturday. Preed, Cesar and I took a day long trip down to San Luis Obispo by plane. It was a nice flight down, taking about 90 minutes, through the valley. I enjoyed it a lot. San Luis was a nice town too. With Preed as our guide, we walked around downtown, got some eats (tri-tip beef is mouthwatering protein goodness), saw the Mission, bought some wine and even had a brief tour of Preed's alma mater. The pinnacle of the whole trip didn't appear until the trip back. Watching the sun set from 8500 feet is truly an amazing experience. You can see pictures of my trip to San Luis <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/proud2bcan8dn/sets/72157600861708175/">here</a>. For a taste of the sunset, check this out:<br /><img width="50%" height="50%" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1147/831672395_ba0776595c.jpg" /><img width="50%" height="50%" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1391/832536378_d469e92251.jpg" /><br /><br />I have one final event to tell you about that happened this Sunday, but I am still waiting on the photos to be ready. Once they are, I will make a post.<br /><br />Until then,<br /><br />Cheers.<div class="blogger-post-footer">mozilla, open source, seneca, qa</div></description> > <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:17:09 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Doug Turner: Joey and the IPhone</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/archives/018277.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/archives/018277.html</link> > <description><p> >I hacked together a view Joey for the IPhone this weekend using <a href="http://www.joehewitt.com/iui/">Joey Hewitt's iui project</a>. ></p><p> >After you have created an account and start uploading stuff, you can view it on your iphone in safari by going to <a href="http://joey.labs.mozilla.com">joey.labs.mozilla.com</a>. Audio and Video doesn't work yet (I don't have a iphone to test with, so need to resolve that problem first. or if you want to help, let me know). Please give it a try and let me know what you think. ></p><p> ><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/200707161546.jpg"><img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/200707161546-tm.jpg" hspace="4" height="500" width="265" vspace="4" alt="200707161546" border="1" /></a><span style="font-size: 0pt;"> ><br /> ><br /></span>By the way, i tested this with Firefox first, then ran it through something called <a href="http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/">iPhoney</a>. ></p><p> >Also, I added the ability for Joey to "remember" what tabs you have open in Firefox. It is by default off. To enable it, go into the Add-On preferences for Joey and select this item: ></p><p> ><img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/200707161545.jpg" hspace="4" height="247" width="446" vspace="4" alt="200707161545" border="1" /><span style="font-size: 0pt;"> ><br /></span> ></p><p> >Doug ></p></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:52:29 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>dougt</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>matthew zeier (mrz): IPSEC VPN between Cisco IOS & Netscreen - solved !</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2007/07/16/ipsec-vpn-between-cisco-ios-netscreen-solved/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2007/07/16/ipsec-vpn-between-cisco-ios-netscreen-solved/</link> > <description><p>This isnât necessarily Mozilla related but after spending a month on and off trying to get an IPSEC VPN up between a Cisco IOS router and a Juniper Netscreen SSG5 and finding very little help online, I figured I might as well document it here for others to find (myself, for instance, or, hey Google - index this).</p> ><p>For those interested, read on.</p> ><p> <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2007/07/16/ipsec-vpn-between-cisco-ios-netscreen-solved/#more-63" class="more-link">(moreâ¦)</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:55:12 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>mrz</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>David Boswell: Status Update for week of 7/13</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/status-update-for-week-of-713/</guid> > <link>http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/status-update-for-week-of-713/</link> > <description><div class="snap_preview"><p>Last week I continued to focus on learning more about the donations program and I think I have my head around that now. This week Iâm going to finish up some items and get ready for the upcoming <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon/">OSCON</a> and <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipg/Main_Page">IPG</a> conferences.</p> ><p>Tasks from last week:</p> ><p>* Wrote up notes of my research into the donations program and have been thinking of ideas that could potentially be useful to the Foundation</p> ><p>* Continued research into how the Mozilla Store was used in the past to accept donations (examples from the Internet Archive <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031126085745/http://store.mozilla.org/">from 2003</a> and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050126022444/www.mozillastore.com/products/donations">from 2005</a>)</p> ><p>* Started moderating the mailing lists used for Mozilla Foundation donation related email</p> ><p>* Started work on a mockup of a proposed web page for grants related information</p> ></div></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:54:01 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>davidwboswell</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Frank Hecker: Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/07/13</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:hecker.org,2007:/mozilla/foundation-activities-2007-07-13</guid> > <link>http://hecker.org/mozilla/foundation-activities-2007-07-13</link> > <description><p>This is my report on activities related to the <a href="http://www.mozillafoundation.org/">Mozilla >Foundation</a> for the week ending >July 13, 2007.</p> > ><h2>Projects for the week</h2> > ><p>Note that starting with this report I'm going to be more consistent >about making this a report for all Foundation-related activities, not >just stuff I'm doing. For more information about others' activities >please see the weekly status reports published by <a href="http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/">David >Boswell</a>, <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/weekly_status_20070713.html">Gerv Markham</a>, and <a href="http://zak.greant.com/mofo-weekly-report-2007-07-13/">Zak Greant</a>.</p> > ><p>Here's a partial listing of what I and others did this past week.</p> > ><ul> ><li><p>Grants and related activities. I completed paperwork for one more >project left over from the Summer of Code applications, a project >by Jörg Dotzki to create a Firefox extension to simulate >the appearance of web pages to colorblind individuals. I published >a blog post on a proposed <a href="http://hecker.org/mozilla/accessibility-vision-and-strategy">accessibility vision and >strategy</a> for the Mozilla Foundation.</p> > ><p>Next action(s): Evaluate a funding request for sponsorship of a >developer workshop (Mozilla-related but not >Mozilla-specific). Make a decision on two new >accessibility-related proposals.</p></li> ><li><p>IP/legal issues. I formally submitted the application for US >trademark registration of the Camino logo.</p> > ><p>Next action(s): Work with the SeaMonkey Council and others on >appropriate policies for the SeaMonkey trademarks. Work more to >get the contributors agreement moved forward.</p></li> ><li><p>Other. Zak has been working to help get the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipg">Internet as a Public >Good symposium</a> organized. David has been working on various >tasks related to donations to the Mozilla Foundation.</p></li> ></ul> > ><h2>Upcoming activities</h2> > ><ul> ><li><p>I'll be taking some vacation time this week.</p></li> ><li><p>Gerv will be in Pittsburgh this week participating in the <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2007/">Symposium >on Usable Privacy and Security</a> (SOUPS).</p></li> ><li><p>I'll be attending <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon/">OSCON 2007</a> the week of July 23, along >with the rest of the Mozilla Foundation folks and lots of other >Mozilla people. (I'll be in Portland Monday afternoon, Tuesday, >and Wednesday.)</p></li> ><li><p>David, Zak, and I will be in Boston on July 30-31 participating in >the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipg">IPG symposium</a>.</p></li> ></ul> > ><h2>Random notes</h2> > ><p>New music downloaded last week: <a href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Slow-Six-Nor-easter-MP3-Download/11056351.html">Nor'easter</a> by <a href="http://www.slowsix.com/">Slow Six</a>. I'd >make a comment here on its appeal, but <a href="http://ifyouwanttosingout.blogspot.com/2007/07/chromatic-clouds-surround.html">someone else</a> has >already written it for me: "I am a huge fan of both classical and >ambient music, and if you are too, you would definitely enjoy Slow >Six's brand new album, <cite>Nor'easter</cite>."</p></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Frank Hecker</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Doug Warner: Week 28 update</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.silfreed.net/blog/437</guid> > <link>http://www.silfreed.net/blog/437</link> > <description><p><a href="http://www.silfreed.net/photo/v/tasks/Mozdev+Drupal+Demo/"><img src="http://www.silfreed.net/photo/d/26728-2/drupal-main-wiki.png" alt="Mozdev Wiki" class="left" /></a>I pretty much finished up the <a href="https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=13381">unstarted project list (bug#13381)</a> near the beginning of last week, so I pushed forward on some other bugs.</p> ><p>For Firefox 3 updates (Mozdev bugs <a href="https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17110">17110</a> and <a href="https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17302">17302</a>, Mozilla bug <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378216" title="Disable insecure extension updates by default ">378216</a>), I <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378216#c49">tried to get some clarification to see if we needed SSL at all</a>, but didn't really receive a response. I guess to follow up with that this week - I'll probably just try to find <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Mossop">Dave Townsend</a> on <a href="http://irc.mozilla.org/">irc</a> somewhere.</p> ><p>With no progress on getting either of the first two things completed, I continued work on blog/wiki/forum software. I have <a href="http://drupal.org">Drupal</a> installed on my local machine and have been making good progress at getting it running. I <a href="http://drupal.org/node/159123" title="Using for parts of Mozdev.org">hit a roadblock with setting up aliases for parts of Drupal</a>, but I hope to get that resolved early this week. I was able to get a hacked-up theme pretty easily; and just from seeing how well <a href="https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/">Bugzilla</a> has been integrated into the theme I'm fairly confident it should not be too difficult to do.</p> ><p><a href="http://www.silfreed.net/photo/v/tasks/Mozdev+Drupal+Demo/">I have some screenshots up of the progress I'm making on the Drupal install</a>; feel free to check them out and make comments.</p></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:01:10 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>silfreed</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Frédéric Buclin: Almost 100,000 downloads of Bugzilla 3.0!</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://lpsolit.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/almost-100000-downlaods-of-bugzilla-30/</guid> > <link>http://lpsolit.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/almost-100000-downlaods-of-bugzilla-30/</link> > <description><div class="snap_preview"><p>Lors de notre dernier meeting Bugzilla mardi dernier (10 juillet 2007), justdave a annoncé que Bugzilla 3.0 avait été téléchargé 86â²060 fois depuis sa sortie le 9 mai dernier. Presque 100â²000 téléchargements en 2 mois est un excellent score! Heureux de constater que les utilisateurs aiment notre produit. <img src="http://lpsolit.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> ><p>â</p> ><p>At our last Bugzilla meeting last Tuesday (July 10th, 2007), justdave announced Bugzilla 3.0 has been downloaded 86,060 times since its release on May 9. Almost 100,000 downloads in 2 months is a pretty great score! Happy to see people like our product. <img src="http://lpsolit.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p> ></div></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:48:08 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>lpsolit</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>AllPeers: Mozilla IDE Followup</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/16/mozilla-ide-followup/</guid> > <link>http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/16/mozilla-ide-followup/</link> > <description><p>I got a <a href="http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/10/does-mozilla-need-an-ide/#comment-82448">lot of great comments</a> to my most recent Mozilla IDE post. The message that came through loud and clear is: donât try to develop your own development environment from scratch. My attitude is more Not Inventing Here than Not Invented Here, to the extent that the success of any development project often seems to be inversely proportional to how much it is trying to invent. So Iâm very receptive to the idea of using Eclipse or NetBeans as a starting point. Iâm also interested in knowing more about how well Komodo IDE covers our requirements, although the fact that it isnât free software is obviously a major drawback. I plan to take a closer look when I have time.</p> ><p>Once the <a href="http://www.mozpad.org/doku.php?id=actionitem:ide_proposal">Mozpad IDE team</a> has come up with a list of requirements, I would submit that choosing the appropriate starting point will be one of the most important next steps.</p></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:34:40 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>AllPeers: Ceci NâEst Pas Une Pipe</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/16/ceci-nest-pas-une-pipe/</guid> > <link>http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/16/ceci-nest-pas-une-pipe/</link> > <description><p>I totally forgot to mention <a href="http://www.developerfriendly.com/node/18">pipe-based IPC</a> in my XULRunner wishlist. We definitely need this, so chalk up another vote. Iâd have to think of a plausible use case, but I believe that profile sharing (multiple XULRunner instances all using the same profile directory) is sorely needed as well.</p></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:39:06 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Alex Vincent: Verbosio: First Look</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018274.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018274.html</link> > <description><p>There's an old saying in the open-source community: "Release early, release often." I confess now that with Verbosio, my prototype for an extensible XML editor, I've done neither. I have put two years into it, and I have little to show for it - just some nice screenshots.</p> > ><p>Until today.</p> > ><p>A few days ago, I <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018261.html">asked for help</a> reducing testcases. Jesse Ruderman pointed out that I hadn't given anybody a real testcase to reduce. Neil Rashbrook pointed out in response that Verbosio was too big for Bugzilla. In essence, both were right.</p> > ><p>So I spent the last two days re-arranging the Verbosio repository, in order to provide a "snapshot" of Verbosio which people could reference in Bugzilla. It goes beyond that, however: it's also a snapshot of the Verbosio code base which anyone with a XULRunner build (1.9a6 or trunk) can experiment with. It's not just for filing bugs against Gecko, in other words.</p> > ><p>It's a chance to look inside my head, and see a piece of the vision I've been dreaming up for two years. It's a chance to actually play with Verbosio, and see where it's going.</p> > ><p>Right now, it sucks, bad enough for me to say on the installation page:</p> ><blockquote> >This "snapshot" is specifically >for Mozilla developers in order to debug several problems which the author >believes are not the fault of his application (NS_ASSERTION failures, weird >XUL deck behaviors, etc.). <strong>If you are using Verbosio for any other >purpose, be aware that it can do nasty things to edited files, computer >performance, and your grandparents.</strong> Use this snapshot with ><em>extreme caution</em>. You have been warned. ></blockquote> > ><p>However, I suppose that as software projects go with initial source package releases, I'm in pretty good company. Netscape, I remember hearing, had a really ugly package for their Communicator 5.0 initial source release. Lots of other projects put out code that's nowhere near ready for general use, with lots of incomplete features just waiting to shock users.</p> > ><p>So, to get you started in Verbosio (if you're daring enough), try the following steps.</p> > ><ol> > <li>Get a XULRunner package (trunk or 1.9a6).</li> > <li>Download the gzipped tarball (approx. 1 MB) from <a href="http://verbosio.mozdev.org/installation.html">Verbosio's installation page</a>. (Note: it may not be on all the mirrors yet - it should be there in less than 24 hours.)</li> > <li>Unzip and untar the tarball (after a virus and spyware scan - you don't trust me that much, do you?)</li> > <li><a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Getting_started_with_XULRunner#Step_8:_Run_the_application">Run the application</a>. Use the "default" application, not the "testing" application.</li> > <li>When it's running, go to Verbosio -&gt; Open testing verbosio.xul. Watch Verbosio load a copy of itself (from the "testing" subdirectory) into its tabbed editing space. (Note: There's a bug I haven't figured out yet with Verbosio on the Mac platform, involving symlinks, which prevents you from doing this. Sorry.)</li> > <li>Play with it to your heart's content. As long as you don't try to edit (opening up is okay) any other XULRunner applications or Firefox/Gecko-based XUL extensions with Verbosio, you should be pretty safe. The "testing" subdirectory application is disposable - you can get a fresh copy from the tarball at any time.</li> ></ol> > ><p>Several of the features:</p> ><ul> > <li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/017926.html">WYSIWYG view with partial editing support</a></li> > <li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018141.html">Support for editing DTD entities inside the XML document</a>, and having those entities update in the original DTD</li> > <li>Source code view</li> > <li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/017437.html">DOM Inspector-like tree views</a></li> > <li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018141.html">A chrome registry viewer</a></li> ></ul> > ><p>These are just what's visible to the user. There's a lot of infrastructure too (ECMAScript design by contract, automated tests, support for extensions without conflicts of variable names, virtual files, a markup language for XML templates, DTD and entity management, undo/redo support including DOM operations, base URI mappings for starters).</p> > ><p>Finally, the snapshot you see is on a branch (0.1a1pre.0.*), while the trunk is on a different line (0.1a1pre.1.* right now). That way, the branch itself can remain relatively static, and be a good reference for others. Also, the branch will work with any XULRunner build 1.9a6 or later (meaning 1.9a7, 1.9b1, 1.9, 1.9.1, etc.), while the trunk will remain based on a single milestone at a time (1.9a6 currently), so that I can work with an unchanging XR base. (In other words, the stable branch will tie to an evolving XULRunner, and the evolving trunk will tie to a stable XULRunner.)</p> > ><p>This tarball and its contents are available under MPL 1.1 / GPL 2.0+ / LGPL 2.1+. Change log in the extended entry.</p></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:15:42 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>WeirdAl</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Robert Sayre: Scaling YouTube</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/15/scaling-youtube/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/15/scaling-youtube/</link> > <description><p><a href="http://kylecordes.com/2007/07/12/youtube-scalability/">Python, Apache, NetScaler, Caching</a> and mabye some Lighttpd and CDNs and BigTable.</p></description> > <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:12:01 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>rsayre</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Robert Kaiser: Weekly Status Report, W28/2007</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-07/weekly_status_report_w28_2007</guid> > <link>http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-07/weekly_status_report_w28_2007</link> > <description>Here's the summary of SeaMonkey work I did in week 28/2007 (July 9 - 15):<br /> ><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Releases:</span><br /> ><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:2.0.0.5">Firefox 2.0.0.5</a> has been moved forward to happening the upcoming week already (!) because of the <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=22198">firefoxurl: vulnerability</a> - at least if no further patches to include in this release come up.<br /> >For us, this means, we will need to go fast if we want to release SeaMonkey 1.1.3 in sync with this release.<br /> >(By the way, SeaMonkey 1.x seems to not be vulnerable to this mentioned security problem, as the affected code was only introduced with Firefox' Vista support, and we never adopted that. So we don't have good Vista support, but one security problem less.)</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cleanup of Old xpfe Code:</span><br /> >I managed to <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386903">remove xpinstall/packager from cvs</a> - at least everything but 3 files that are still used from elsewhere. I even could remove a few unused files from toolkit/mozapps/installer/ in the process.<br /> >Whoever hasn't realized it yet, creating tar/zip packages for any apps can be done via "make package" from the (objdir) toplevel directory nowadays. Be sure not to try a make in xpinstall/packager any more, there's no makefile left there.<br /> >The next target in this area is <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387450">removing xpinstall/wizard</a> as well.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Breakpad:</span><br /> >As <a href="http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-07/break_seamonkey_at_a_pad_near_you">reported earlier</a> on this blog, I could move SeaMonkey to the new, open source "Breakpad" crash reporter tool now. The old, proprietary Talkback tool is not needed any more on trunk.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">sea-win32-tbox Failure:</span><br /> >While working on getting me access to the SeaMonkey tinderboxen (all community projects get control of their MoCo-hosted tinderboxen), Chris Cooper from the MoCo build team encountered a <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387933">very strange failure of our SeaMonkey Windows machine</a>. I've been working with him as much as I could to find a solution, but we failed so far. We hope we can get this fixed very soon.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source L10n:</span><br /> >As a further step to <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286110">SeaMonkey "source L10n"</a>, I could check in a patch to <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387279">move searchplugins to locales</a>. After some discussion on that topic, I decided that we will only support PNG icon images for searchplugins added by localizers - so localizers should convert any GIF icons they might have for plugins in their language to PNG. The backend continues to support all of GIF, PNG and JP(E)G files, so Add-On searchplugins are NOT affected, this is only for those added by localizers in CVS.<br /> >We don't support Firefox' OpenSearch XML format yet, we still stick with sherlock plugins, but we use the same style of list.txt and fallback as Firefox L10n for selecting which plugins to include, so localizers don't need to add 1:1 copies of any plugins we already have in en-US, they just need to add/leave their name in list.txt to have them included.<br /> >I also did a new patch for <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387280">langpacks and L10n repackaging</a>, which should take us the next step towards the goal of CVS-based L10n for SeaMonkey.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">German L10n:</span><br /> >I resolved a few long-time open bugs on SeaMonkey L10n, and I <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387873">made German toolkit/ L10n complete</a> again. We're also currently in the process of finishing up a discussion about translation of "want"/"would", so I hope we should come to a conclusion and new versions of my sync patches soon.<br /> >Repeatedly, such discussions bring up cases where the original wordings could be improved, the most recent one is about <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388219">superfluous HTTP Auth</a>. I'd hope that localizers of other language also do bring such issues that arise while localizing back to the original en-US by filing bugs. This way, we can improve the UI for everyone.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Crashes:</span><br /> >No, I didn't fix crashes unfortunately. But since I'm using trunk now for everyday work, I'm actually encountering a few, and using a debug build for all that work, I'm able to <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333669">file</a> <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388038">some</a> <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388241">stack</a> <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388244">traces</a>.<br /> >I just hope those developers who know more of the C++ code can also find fixes for those.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">UA Spoofing:</span><br /> >I <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387416">filed a bug</a> on my proposal of a dynamic UA spoofing solution and <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:KaiRo:Dynamic_UA_Spoofing_Mechanism">wrote a rough spec</a> for it. I really hope we get someone to work on this.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">(Undisclosed Project):</span><br /> >I spent quite some time of a project I'm planning to do as a business which is SeaMonkey-related, but I can't disclose it yet to the public, as some formalities are not yet finished. Be sure to hear some great news soon.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">MoFo ED Search Commitee:</span><br /> >I had a phone call about the search commitee for a new Mozilla Foundation executive director, which I'm taking part in. I hope I can serve the whole Mozilla community with helping to get someone in this position who really fits us well, and who understands and can support as much of this large community as possible.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Small Things:</span><br /> >Hopefully <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383080">the -moz-image-region reftest</a> I have been <a href="http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-06/weekly_status_report_w22_2007">talking about</a> a few weeks ago can be added soon, as I now know where to add it, did a patch and requested review.<br /> >If you might actually read blog entries of mine on home.kairo.at with a recent trunk build, you might have noticed a horizontal scrollbar appearing uselessly. I tracked this down to a <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388026">layout regression</a> and filed it with along with a simplified testcase.<br /> >I also filed bugs on an <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387311">interesting table rendering bug</a> I encountered and <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387677">the POP3 new-message check failure</a>, both happening on trunk.<br /> >And I wrote up <a href="http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-07/my_xulrunner_wishlist">my XULRunner wishlist</a>, which includes items from the SeaMonkey and L210n areas.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Various Discussions:</span><br /> >Finishing touches on the Bugzilla reorganization,Firefox 3 location bar, moving from wallet to satchel/pwdmgr, printUtils work, newsgroup reordering, etc.</li></ul><br /> >After recovering my <a href="http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-07/how_to_f_k_up_your_system">recently broken laptop system</a>, I dared to upgrade it to the openSUSE FACTORY distribution, which is the openSUSE for what we call "the trunk", i.e. the bleeding edge development version for the next release, which is openSUSE 10.3 in their case. They are near to 10.3 Alpha 6 right now (alpha6 doesn't feel too unfamiliar for this point in time), but from the short looks I got, this doesn't feel like an Alpha distribution at all, it's pretty decent actually. It looks like openSUSE 10.3 will be a great product, and worth upgrading also my servers to (which I had planned anyways).</description> > <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:28:32 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>KaiRo</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Daniel Glazman: Four years</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2007/07/15/3686-four-years</guid> > <link>http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2007/07/15/3686-four-years</link> > <description>Four years ago, AOL decided to let Mozilla fly with its own wings and let go the remains of Netscape CPD and me with it. A few weeks later, Tristan Nitot, Peter van der Beken and I met at Peter's place and I proposed to start a company called Disruptive Innovators. The following 13th of October, I...</description> > <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:19:15 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Daniel Glazman</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Robert Sayre: Drive-By Pharming</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/15/drive-by-pharming/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/15/drive-by-pharming/</link> > <description><p>Hereâs a long video on the details of <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6511733640456684083">Drive-By Pharming</a>, where attackers compromise home routers, and reroute DNS traffic to a server of their choice. Thereâs also a long <a href="http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/02/driveby_pharming_how_clicking_1.html">explanation</a> from Symantec. This attack is similar to phishing, but thereâs no need to obscure the details of the host name, because the legitimate domain is served from the wrong host. At the end of the video, thereâs a Q and A session discussing the effectiveness of certificates and other countermeasures.</p></description> > <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:01:43 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>rsayre</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>JT Batson: Firefox market share trending up globally</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-831957007008351309</guid> > <link>http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/2007/07/firefox-market-share-trending-up.html</link> > <description>Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community, Firefox market share is trending up all over the globe. <a href="http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/barometre-des-navigateurs/firefox-juillet-2007/index-1-1-3-102.html">Check out this Xiti Monitor article (in French) that goes in to more detail</a>. Hopefully, with our efforts to help develop and support the marketing communities in each locale, we can help accelerate this growth.<br /><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UQpy3jqmOyg/RpnE7VN_GCI/AAAAAAAAACk/TsZ-B6-MXWw/s1600-h/firefox-200707-5.png"><img src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UQpy3jqmOyg/RpnE7VN_GCI/AAAAAAAAACk/TsZ-B6-MXWw/s400/firefox-200707-5.png" alt="" border="0" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5087313777678817314" /></a></description> > <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:58:31 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>JT Batson</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Seth Bindernagel: Ahmedabad</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/07/14/ahmedabad/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/07/14/ahmedabad/</link> > <description><p>After nearly 30 hours of travel, Chris and I landed on Friday, July 13, after midnight in Mumbai. We arrived to our hotel by 2 AM and then got up the next day, headed back to the airport to fly to Ahmedabad in the state of Gujurat. We headed there to participate in the <a href="http://oss-conference.in/" target="_blank">first ever open source conference held in the state of Gujurat</a>. Additionally, I had been hosting Skype calls and emailing with several graduate students at the Indian Institute of Managemet in Ahmedabad who have been thinking of interesting ways to help spread and promote Mozilla in India. It has certainly been an experiment in social networking and grassroots organizing as I have utilized every possible outlet to meet people: joining groups and posting scraps on Orkut, scheduling calls with Mozillaâs Lightning and Google calendar, taking those calls on Skype, blogging and posting on blogs, and emailing with people who expressed interest in meeting us in India. This trip to Ahmedabad was the first interaction weâve had with people who have responded to my attempts to network internationally and it was, IMO, a big success.</p> ><p><strong>Open Source in Ahmedabad</strong></p> ><p>Ahmedabad, as described by some at the conference we attended, is an academic center where many scholars and professors are studying and working on their academic pursuits. Given that fact, it may come as no surprise that Professor B H Jajoo from the Indian Institute of Managemt was the lead organizer (with his colleague Dibyajyoti Bhuyan). The conference was also sponsored by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Conference topics touched on several different topics, and here are just a few of the sessions:</p> ><ul> ><li>Why Free Software?</li> ><li>OSS Enginnering</li> ><li>Open Source Business Methods</li> ><li>OSS deployment in e-Governance Projects</li> ><li>OSS and its relevance in India</li> ><li>Building OSS communities (a presentation by me and Chris Hofmann)</li> ></ul> ><p>The conference had roughly 250 attendees and Chris and I were able to meet many of the leading minds in India who are thinking about open source software and how it will gain more traction. I was impressed with everyoneâs presentations and thought that <a href="http://atulchitnis.com/" target="_blank" title="Atul Chitnis">Atul Chitnis</a> gave a very interesting talk, stressing the importance of OSS in India. He has been working on open source projects since 1993 and it is his firm belief that young Indian entrepreneurs and start-up companies in India have no other option but to use open source software. Overall, I was impressed by the energy put into and the breadth of the presentations. It seems that many of the Indian professionals at the conference are trying to find the best ways to promote OSS while also making sure that the ideas are sustainable in the business setting. In my short time at the conference, I quickly learned that the spirit of the participants was very entrepreneurial and each individual seemed to be seeking ways to make open source software and their business ideas a success.</p> ><p><strong>Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad</strong></p> ><p>Another reason for our trip to Ahmedabad was to meet with professors and students at IIM-A. Many expressed interest in taking on student projects that will allow them to utilized their marketing and technology acumen to promote Mozilla and help spread its mission and software throughout India. Many thanks to <a href="http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg/" target="_blank" title="Anil Gupta">Professor Anil Gupta</a> and other members of the IIM-A community, including all the students we met and organizers like Guarav Shilpi. We met with three different student teams who are all thinking of ways to promote Mozilla. As part of the arrangement, students will either receive credit for helping Mozilla or, in the very least, list the project work on their CVs. Our next step is to reconnect with the students and professors when we return to the U.S. The ideas were terrific: launching a campus reps program in India, finding interesting ways to distribute Mozilla software, creating viral marketing campaigns similar to the NYTimes full-page advertisement at the release of Firefox 1, and localizing Firefox into Indian languages. It promises to be an active semester with lots of projects being taken on by these students.</p> ><p><strong>Visiting Gandhiâs Ashram</strong></p> ><p>In the pictures that I include in this post, youâll see several from a morning trip to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabarmati_Ashram" target="_blank" title="Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram">Gandhiâs Sabarmati Ashram</a>. As the wikipedia link describes, âGandhi made it his home, and on March 12, 1930 he embarked on his famous march to Dandi, Gujarat for the Salt Satyagraha. He vowed never to return to the ashram until India became independent.â If you have seen Richard Attenboroughâs film <em>Gandhi, </em>you might remember the famous salt march to Dandi. Gandhi used this peaceful measure to show the British occupants that the Indian people would not tolerate the unfair and exorbitant taxation of salt. Some say that nearly 450,000 people joined him on the march in 1930. This fact alone is staggering. We learned during our visit that Gandhi, in a time of limited communication, was able to communicate to, organize, and then empower so many people to march for a cause. His mission was always grounded in non-violence and peace. We also learned that it was Gandhiâs unique ability to make people understand their freedom and choices that they had. Rather than being subjects to the British throne, he encouraged Indian people to seek independence peacefully. It was a fascinating trip to th Ashram.</p> ><p>The trip to the ashram was also very important for us because it gives us yet another glimpse at how people think in India. Like Gandhi, many people here feel empowered and entrepreneurial. Gandhiâs teachings are everywhere, his image is on the Rupee bank notes, and it is obvious that many people incorporate his ideologies into their lives. Many times at the OSS conference, we would hear about why the businesses people were starting were not only sound business practices, but would also bring about great social change here in India. That was unique because (at least in the U.S.) itâs not often that social change and business are so closely linked. It almost appeared as a strategic imperative to the entrepreneurs we met. And, we learned from our hosts, that it is this style of thinking that pervades the society and has its roots from leaders like Gandhi.</p> ><p>So far, fascinating. We have already met hundreds of people and Mozilla is well-known by them. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/gp/70861572@N00/eusAF7" target="_blank" title="Ahmedabad">Please take a look at the photos and let me know what you think.</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:02:24 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>seth bindernagel</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Alex Vincent: Raindrops from a brainstorm</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018270.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018270.html</link> > <description><p>Every now and then, I have a really good idea, something that I think >would shake up the authoring/editing community and add simple, useful >capabilities we've never seen before. Basically, I run into a problem when >I'm working on code, and I come up with a solution... but I just don't have >the time to prototype it, implement it, and see how it works out. I figured >today that I might as well throw a few of these ideas out for the community >to chew on.</p> > ><p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: I forgot to mention - if anyone wants to implement these ideas, go right ahead. :-) I'm posting them because I don't have time to do them myself right now.</p> ><p>I'd like to see what the Mozilla community - and the authoring / editing tools community at large - think. The ideas I'm sharing now are in the extended entry.</p></description> > <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:37:38 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>WeirdAl</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Robert Sayre: Definition of Security Theater</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/14/definition-of-security-theater/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/14/definition-of-security-theater/</link> > <description><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater</a>: <i>âSecurity theater has been defined as ostensible security measures which have little real influence on security whilst being publicly visible and designed to demonstrate to the lesser-informed that countermeasures have been considered. Security theater has been related to and has some similarities with superstition.â</i></p></description> > <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:24:28 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>rsayre</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Daniel Glazman: MozBus</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2007/07/15/3684-mozbus</guid> > <link>http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2007/07/15/3684-mozbus</link> > <description>Parked in Paris today, Porte de Bagnolet, a white bus labeled "Mozilla Tours". I unfortunately did not have the time to see which country the bus comes from....</description> > <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:01:08 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Daniel Glazman</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Gervase Markham: World Slovenia Day</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/world_slovenia_day.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/world_slovenia_day.html</link> > <description><p>At the Paris Developer Day last month, I mentioned to Tristan that Slovenia would soon be the first country in the world where Firefox has the majority market share. The latest <a href="http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/barometre-des-navigateurs/firefox-juillet-2007/index-1-1-3-102.html">XitiMonitor results</a> put Firefox at 47.9%, and I assert that this has already happened - there's surely must be more than 4.2% using something other than Firefox or IE (Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, SeaMonkey, Safari, Camino, mobile browsers...)</p> > ><p>My suggestion at the time was that we declare this day "World Slovenia Day". We could encourage people to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia">read about Slovenia</a>, learn how to say "Hello" and "We love Firefox" in Slovene, and hail them as the leaders of the Firefox revolution. People would display the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Slovenia.svg">Slovenian flag</a> on their blogs and in their windows. We could have "Hug a Slovenian", where people would either travel to Slovenia or scour the streets of their local big city looking for Slovenians and giving them a hug. </p> > ><p>Of course, it's probably a bit late to organise now :-)</p></description> > <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:01:58 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>gerv</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>QMO: Join the QA Community Testday on Friday, July 20th, 2007 !</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">http://quality.mozilla.org/298 at http://quality.mozilla.org</guid> > <link>http://quality.mozilla.org/node/298</link> > <description><div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-start"><label>Start: </label>2007-07-20 07:00</div></div> ><div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-end"><label>End: </label>2007-07-21 05:00</div></div> ><div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-tz"><label>Timezone: </label>Etc/GMT-7</div></div> ><div class="content"> ><p> >Hi Community QA Testers!, ></p> ><p> >Please join the Mozilla QA community for a Testday on Friday, July 20th, 2007! ></p> ><p> ><span>In preparation for the upcoming Beta 1, there are a number of<br /> >checkins for Firefox 3. Join the test day on Friday and help us verify<br /> >these checkins and testing the Firefox Trunk Nightly Build!</span> ></p> ><p> >The event will run Friday, July 20th, 2007, from 7am - 5pm PDT ></p> ><p><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/node/298">read more</a></p></div></description> > <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:07:40 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Tomcat</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Mark Finkle: WebRunner 0.5 - Linux Install</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/07/webrunner-05-linux-install/</guid> > <link>http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/07/webrunner-05-linux-install/</link> > <description><p>After much struggle (I was raised on Windows), I put together a Linux installer for <a href="http://http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/07/webrunner-05-now-with-more-power/">WebRunner</a>. I failed to get file associations working automatically, so you will need to manually set those up. I am including a tar.gz file, as well as, a simple installer. No deb/rpm package yet either <img src="http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt=":(" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> ><p>The *.webapp profiles are installed into the application folder. you can copy them to wherever you want. For now, youâll need to right-click on a *.webapp file to display its properties and configure the âOpen withâ settings yourself - sorry.</p> ><p>The Linux installer (built using <a href="http://www.installjammer.com/">InstallJammer</a>) works very much like the Windows installer, which may be a bad thing for regular Linux users. Let me know what you think. I could use some help building scripts to auto-register the file associations (webrunner -&gt; *.webapp) and thoughts on building packages.</p> ><p>I was looking at <a href="http://bitrock.com/products_installbuilder_overview.html">BitRockâs InstallBuilder</a> which makes installers (Windows, Mac and Linux) and packages (deb and rpm). They have a free license for open source projects. Maybe that is a good approach.</p> ><p>Install: <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/webrunner/webrunner-0.5-linux">webrunner-0.5-linux</a> 7MB<br /> >Archive: <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/webrunner/webrunner-0.5.tar.gz">webrunner-0.5.tar.gz</a> 10MB</p></description> > <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:24:08 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Mark Finkle</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Robert Kaiser: My XULRunner Wishlist</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-07/my_xulrunner_wishlist</guid> > <link>http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-07/my_xulrunner_wishlist</link> > <description>As <a href="http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/10/allpeers-xulrunner-wishlist/">AllPeers</a>, <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/06/xulrunner-wishlist/">Mark Finkle</a> and <a href="http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/1826">Songbird</a> have all posted their wishlists for XULRunner's future, I think it's a good idea to throw mine in, in the light of possible Mozpad acitivities on such items.<br /> >Not that this is my personal view as a SeaMonkey and L10n contributor and no common view of the SeaMonkey project or the Mozilla L10n Project (MLP), though I'd guess that some of those items would be on the wishlists of multiple community members in those projects.<br /> ><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Killing app-specific differences in toolkit</span>:<br /> >Toolkit and other core code still contains app-specific ifdefs in many cases, which block moving the applications to XULRunner. There should be no need for MOZ_PHOENIX, MOZ_THUNDERBIRD, MOZ_SUITE and friends in that code. We came across such problem is <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387247">printUtils</a> recently, and I'm sure there are still enough others. Efforts like <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349309">generalizing openURL()</a> are good steps, but actually long overdue.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">More robustness in mozStorage</span>:<br /> >When the topic of moving any code to mozStorage from RDF or Mork backends in SeaMonkey or MailNews comes up, people keep telling me there are so many warnings around how easily things can go wrong with mozStorage/SQLite when it comes to other apps wanting to access our data or even multiple threads accessing the database (see <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Storage#How_to_corrupt_your_database">How to corrupt your database</a>). If we want to make mozStorage the general backend for databases in XULRunner, we need to find way so that that developers don't back out because of such fears before even trying to use it.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Template Query Processor for mozStorage</span> (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321172">bug 321172</a>):<br /> >SeaMonkey has a lot of UI that is based on RDF templates. If we should be moving to mozStorage as a backend for much of our data, it would be very helpful to be able to be able to build UI as easily as for RDF, which needs templates to work with mozStorage.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pipe-based IPC</span> (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68702">bug 68702</a>):<br /> >Invoking external processes and controlling them via stdin/stdout or even named pipes is something that many more XULRunner apps will want in the future. I mostly care for having a good way to integrate EnigMail/OpenPGP into SeaMonkey by default, which needs to call gpg through such a mechanism, but I'm sure there are many other needs for this.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">OpenSync support</span> (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303963">bug 303963</a>):<br /> >While the linked bug report is about MailNews and most of the work for this is probably app-specific, it might be a good idea to provide hooks on the platform side to hook into this open, cross-platform data synchronization framework, so it's easy for Mozilla/XULRunner-based apps to use it and provide synchronization with a wide variety of devices and applications.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Profile management improvements</span>:<br /> >Profile roaming seems to be something that gets requested again and again, but does not work well. The mostly working framework we have for that in SeaMonkey 1.x is broken with toolkit profiles on trunk (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378647">bug 378647</a>) and there's no code for doing this with toolkit profiles. I also would love to have profile language selection back if multiple languages are installed for the application (also an xpfe feature not supported by toolkit). Accessing one profile from multiple instances/processes (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135137">bug 135137</a>) would probably be nice but is hard to get right.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">L20n</span> (<a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/L20n">wiki page</a>):<br /> >The localization framework used for Mozilla applications up till now has its merits but also its share of problems. Based on what we know about current localization frameworks, which all have their own big problems, Axel Hecht, the L10n lead of MoCo, has figured out a next-generation L10n framework which he calls "L20n". We really need such an improved framework with one single file format for everything and enough flexibility for complicated languages (those are out there and currently not supported well in any software).</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Language switching in EM</span> (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377881">bug 377881</a>):<br /> >Being able to easily install a language pack and switch to using it is good for L10n testers but sometimes also for normal users, esp. in multi-language families and countries. We should not clutter the interface for those users who don't need this, though. To achieve that, we can leave the current way of language handling in Extension Manager, just with small tweaks so that language switching is handled the same way as theme switching.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tray icon support</span> (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325353">bug 325353</a>):<br /> >The main reason why the so-called "Quicklaunch" feature on Windows has remained popular with our users in the SeaMonkey 1.x product line is that they have a tray icon with a context menu that provides fast access to open browser and mail windows. Additionally, it kept mail libraries loaded and provided information about new mail arriving - and it allowed to close all SeaMonkey windows and still have fast access to the browser, mail and get this mail notification. It would really be nice if we could still provide that functionality with toolkit-based versions of SeaMonkey, but we'd need tray icon support in toolkit for that.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Splash screen support</span> (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329742">bug 329742</a>):<br /> >This might sound like a small thing, but having a splash screen gets branding across, which is why I believe many corporate users of XULRunner will want this, and on laptop machines with slow harddisks, even Firefox takes long to launch, with currently no visual feedback at all to the user that anything is happening.</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">KDE integration</span> (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140751">bug 140751</a>):<br /> >As a KDE user, like probably half or more of the Linux population, I'd really wish we could integrate more with KDE. We currently are able to fetch file type icons (moz-icon) from GNOME, and system settings also from there, but it doesn't help much when GNOME isn't configured much because I never use it. We've grown to use themes from KDE quite well in default themes, as KDE makes GTK inherit its settings and we inherit them from there, which works interestingly well. It might be worth to investigate how we can pick up other things through such channels, like e.g. default apps for certain MIME types.</li></ul><br /> >I think I have touched my main wishes here, others might still come up to my mind later, but I hope they're only smaller wishes <img src="http://home.kairo.at/?d=b&amp;p=s_wink" alt=";-)" class="icon" style="height: 19px; width: 19px;" title="wink" /></description> > <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:16:22 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>KaiRo</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Rumbling Edge - Thunderbird: 50 million downloads mark reached</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/07/50_million_downloads_mark_reached.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/07/50_million_downloads_mark_reached.html</link> > <description><p>The number of Thunderbird downloads has exceeded <a href="http://tb.asbjorn.it/tbcountdown.html" target="_blank">50 >million</a>, since the release of 1.0 back in December 2004.</p> ><p>According to Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen, >this mark was reached on <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/27909" target="_blank">12 >July 2007</a>, which means that Thunderbird took just over 2.5 >years to get to this mark, and just under 6 months from <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/01/40_million_downloads_already.html">40 >million</a>.</p></description> > <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:04:12 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>skywalker</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Burning Edge - Firefox: 2007-07-13 Trunk builds</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2007/07/13/2007-07-13-trunk-builds/</guid> > <link>http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2007/07/13/2007-07-13-trunk-builds/</link> > <description><div class="burningedge"> > ><p>Fixes:</p> > ><ul class="good"> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333848">333848</a> - Add full-featured user-defined functions and progress handlers to storage.</strong></li> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363897">363897</a> - [Security] Don't give onerror handlers detailed information about syntax errors in off-site "scripts".</strong></li> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384384">384384</a> - [Security] Command injection vulnerability affecting IE users who have Firefox installed.</strong></li> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383478">383478</a> - [Security] File type confusion vulnerability due to null bytes in URL (encoded as %00).</strong></li> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380469">380469</a> - Removal of the close phase of GC.</strong></li> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373231">373231</a> - Implement navigator.isLocallyAvailable.</strong></li> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372969">372969</a> - Implement navigator.pendingOfflineLoads.</strong></li> > ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255990">255990</a> - Characters below U+0100 are not subject to line-breaking rules at all.</strong></li> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95067">95067</a> - Line break should be allowed after hyphen (unless followed by number).</strong></li> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218580">218580</a> - Line break should be allowed after slash (unless followed by a number).</strong> <small>(Along with breaking after "=", this should make it much less common for long URLs posted in forums to mess up a page's table layout.)</small></li> > ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303194">303194</a> - Pressing Delete key in Extension Manager should uninstall extension.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336528">336528</a> - Software update installation progress dialog doesn't stretch to fit contents (cut short, text is truncated).</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315920">315920</a> - Attribute and event state change optimizations in nsCSSStyleSheet assume changes are sequential.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380028">380028</a> - Flash of unstyled content on XML pages on first load (or shift-reload).</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387685">387685</a> - Clean up HTML tooltip code.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357614">357614</a> - List of case sensitive HTML attributes for CSS attribute selector should be reversed.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321024">321024</a> - Crash in nsCryptoHash during shutdown of nsUrlClassifierDBService [@ nsUrlClassifierDBService::Shutdown][@ NSSRWLock_LockRead].</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331307">331307</a> - Bookmarks toolbar chevron is left-aligned instead of right-aligned.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383271">383271</a> - Leak document (and sometimes windows and XBL docs) after typing in search box.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385087">385087</a> - Use XPCOMUtils in content pref services to prevent leaks.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375083">375083</a> - Send URL of active tab to the crash report as metadata.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385729">385729</a> - Separated table to store script objects.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387197">387197</a> - [Mac] Enable kerning on mac.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387867">387867</a> - [Mac] Rename DISABLE_LIGATURES to DISABLE_OPTIONAL_LIGATURES and implement it properly for Mac.</li> ></ul> > > ><p>Fixes for recent regressions:</p> > ><ul class="good"> ><li><strong>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386665">386665</a> - Anti-phishing service fails to clean up observers, so some DOMWINDOWs are leaked until shutdown.</strong></li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386496">386496</a> - Clicking on link in designMode document does follow that link now.</li> ><li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386495">386495</a> - Javascript is not disabled when designMode is on.</li> > ></ul> > > > ><p><a href="http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?module=PhoenixTinderbox&amp;branch=HEAD&amp;date=explicit&amp;mindate=2007-07-07+04%3A00&amp;maxdate=2007-07-13+04%3A00">Trunk checkins between 2007-07-07 04:00 and 2007-07-13 04:00</a></p> > > ><p class="windows builds"> ><img width="18" alt="Windows builds:" height="18" src="http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/winicon.png" /> > ><a href="https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2007-07-13-05-trunk/">Windows nightly</a> > >(<a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=566016">discussion</a>)</p> > > > ><p class="linux builds"> > ><img width="18" alt="Linux builds:" height="18" src="http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/linuxicon.gif" /> > ><a href="https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2007-07-13-04-trunk/">Linux nightly</a> > ></p> > > > ><p class="mac builds"> ><img width="18" alt="Mac builds:" height="18" src="http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/macosx.png" /> > ><a href="https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2007-07-13-04-trunk/">Mac nightly</a> > ></p> > > ></div></description> > <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:30:42 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Jesse Ruderman</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Zak Greant: MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-13</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://zak.greant.com/mofo-weekly-report-2007-07-13/</guid> > <link>http://zak.greant.com/mofo-weekly-report-2007-07-13/</link> > <description><p>The week ending July 13th saw me working heavily on the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipg">Internet as a Public Good Symposium</a> - mostly wrangling participants, writing IPG content, editing the wiki and so on.</p> ><p>I also did some light work preparing for upcoming events (FLOSS Foundations Meeting, OSCON, Ubuntu Live)</p> ><h2> Next Week </h2> ><p>More <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipg">Internet as a Public Good Symposium</a> work - focused on more participant wrangling, and wiki and agenda polishing.</p> ><p>Getting ready for the <a href="http://flossfoundations.org/index.cgi?FLOSSOSCON2007">FLOSS Foundations OSCON 2007 Meeting</a>, <a href="http://www.ubuntulive.com/">Ubuntu Live 2007</a> and <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/">OSCON 2007</a>.</p> ><p>In particular really need to work on:</p> ><ul> ><li> <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/e_sess/13144">State of the Mozilla Foundation Lightning Talk</a> ></li> ><li> <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Conferences:oscon07#OSCON_2007_Booth_Office_Hours_Sign-Up">Mozilla Office Hours @ OSCON</a> ></li> ></ul> ><p> <a href="http://zak.greant.com/mofo-weekly-report-2007-07-13/#more-473" class="more-link">(moreâ¦)</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:17:01 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>zak</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>David Boswell: Never Schedule a Meeting for Friday the 13th</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/never-schedule-a-meeting-for-friday-the-13th/</guid> > <link>http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/never-schedule-a-meeting-for-friday-the-13th/</link> > <description><div class="snap_preview"><p>In retrospect, trying to have a mozdev board meeting today might not have been such a great idea. Today was the only Friday in July that worked for everyone, so we scheduled our meeting and made a couple of jokes about being brave enough to get together on such an unlucky day. </p> ><p>Well, we had to switch dial-in numbers at the last minute and the first two emails I sent with the new information were lost in the void for an hour and a half. We did end up meeting about twenty minutes late though and things went relatively smoothly after that (although a commercial did come on the line at one point). I accept full responsibility for any confusion, since I should have known better than to schedule this for Friday the 13th in the first place <img src="http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> ><p>As long as weâre on this topic, I want to tell everyone that the <a href="http://www.mozdev.org">mozdev home page</a> is wearing its Friday the 13th theme created by the talented cdn. Check it out today or it will be the Bastille Day theme before you know it.</p> ></div></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:07:35 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>davidwboswell</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Marcia Knous: Quality extends beyond the bugs...</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/marcia/archives/018264.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/marcia/archives/018264.html</link> > <description>Our QA team members apparently like to test more than just bugs - lately they have been pushing quality to the limit! Yesterday tchung noticed that a Pepsi One can had exploded in the upstairs freezer, sending cascades of caffeine-aspartame...</description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:21:59 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>marcia</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Taras Glek: Pondering Pre/Post Conditions to Enforce Software Correctness</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/07/13/pondering-prepost-conditions-to-enforce-software-correctness/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/07/13/pondering-prepost-conditions-to-enforce-software-correctness/</link> > <description><p>That other software company has a some brilliant people working on verifying their source code. Their approach is hardcore and seems quite good. Their recipe to robust C# (applying this to C is research-in-progress, C++ isnât yet considered) code is:</p> ><ul> ><li>sprinkle pre/post-conditions for functions. Reduce annotation labour by additional rule inference</li> ><li>dataflow analysis to verify type-system stuff like not-null annotations</li> ><li>Abstract interpretation + model checker to enforce pre/post-conditions</li> ><li><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&amp;id=923">BoogiePL</a> intermediate language. Anything can be accomplished by an awesomely named intermediate language!</li> ></ul> ><p>Resulting code runs fast has a lot fewer bugs than code without all this fancy machinery. Unfortunately, the benefits can only be reaped if a whole program gets annotated. Otherwise, the model checker gets frustrated. Essentially the language being checked is turned into another much safer (more boogie!) language. Iâm looking forward to the day (that will never come) when all new C code is written this way.</p> ><p>If adding these to source code makes you rewrite the whole program, wouldnât it be easier to invent another low-level language that comes with safety by default?</p> ><p>I am guessing that the dehydra method of checking for a relatively small number of application specific bugs is the most practical approach available and it will get us 60% towards Boogieing. Now that elsa has support for preprocessor macros it should be possible to specify non-formal pre/post-conditions to check for common errors. Itâs merely a complicated question of defining what should be checked for.</p> ><p>I donât have the motivation to write/buy/adopt/integrate a formal tool like a model checker, but it seems that itâs possible to write application specific checks in JavaScript that can run circles around what most model checkers can do.</p> ><p>That other company isnât the only vendor working on this stuff. There <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/cminor/">brilliant people</a> taking a somewhat different (and open source) approach.</p></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:12:55 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>tglek</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Eric Shepherd: Places pleaseâ¦</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bitstampede.com/2007/07/13/places-please/</guid> > <link>http://www.bitstampede.com/2007/07/13/places-please/</link> > <description><p>Iâve been spending the last few days poking through the existing documents about Places, and while there are rough spots, itâs actually not bad at all. Iâm going on vacation next week, but when I get home, it will be time to hunker down and start turning that material into our official MDC-grade documentation, complete with formal reference documents.</p> ><p>I wonder if anyone else is glad that the July 31 release has been renamed to alpha 7 instead of beta 1. My official documentation plan calls for the Places docs to be done by beta 1 â this buys me extra time! Woohoo!</p></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:11:24 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>sheppy</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Taras Glek: Dehydra, prcheck, squash - in mercurial</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/07/13/dehydra-prcheck-squash-in-mercurial/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/07/13/dehydra-prcheck-squash-in-mercurial/</link> > <description><p><strong>New Repository</strong></p> ><p>Since I do not yet have write access to oink svn, I have been doing all of my development in ad-hoc repositories within the svn checkout. This made it rather hard to collaborate with others. I finally got sick of the situation (and stumbled upon <a href="http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/hgsvn/">hgsvn</a>) and converted all 11 svn repositories to mercurial. To my surprise, mercurial even let me merge my repositories while preserving history (hg has yet to fail me!).</p> ><p>oink uses svn-externals to aggregate the repositories into a single checkout. hg doesnât have anything similar, so to checkout all 11 repositories use a script:</p> ><p><code><a href="http://people.mozilla.org/~tglek/checkout.sh">checkout.sh</a> http://hg.mozilla.org<br /> ></code><br /> ><strong>Released Differences from Oink Mainline </strong></p> ><ul> ><li>New oink tool - <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/06/26/status-report-recent-work/">prcheck</a>: ensures that bool-like integer typedefs behave like bools</li> ><li>New oink tool - <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/DeHydra">dehydra</a>: source query tool with queries specified in JavaScript</li> ><li>New oink tool - <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Squash">squash</a>: source refactoring tool. This is now deprecated since most of the code in it dealt with working around elsa limitations to do with macro expansion &amp; lack of precise locations. The patching engine used in squash lives on to provide a simple refactoring API for use in other tools (like prcheck).</li> ><li>Minor grammar changes to parse more of Mozilla</li> ><li>Compilation fixes for OSX</li> ><li>Elsa fixes to parse OSX headers</li> ><li>make -j support for elsa</li> ><li>end-of-ast-node location support for elkhound &amp; elsa</li> ><li>preprocessor expansion markup support for elsa</li> ></ul> ><p><strong>Coming Soon</strong></p> ><ul> ><li>Amazing new version of <a href="http://mcpp.sourceforge.net/">MCPP</a> capable of preprocessing mozilla while outputting refactoring-friendly annotations.</li> ><li>Web front-end for squash which will likely be refactored to be tool-agnostic.</li> ><li>Front-end to run patch-producing tools in parallel for multi-core machines</li> ></ul> ><p><strong>Near Future</strong></p> ><ul> ><li>squash will be split up into a library with each major feature ripped out into a standalone tool. Two tools coming soon:outparam rewriter &amp; class member renamer.</li> ><li>RAD for static analysis: oink tool templates to make it trivial to write custom new tools with minimal amount of boilerplate</li> ></ul> ><p><strong>Some time in the Future</strong></p> ><ul> ><li>Collaboration with the author of <a href="http://www.cs.ru.nl/~tews/olmar/">Olmar</a> to provide an OCaml API for Elsa. If everything goes as expected it will be possible to write analyses that are more powerful and more concise than DeHydra ones except they will perform at C/C++ speeds. Plus it should be possible to perform them from a native interactive OCaml toplevel. Most of this work already exists in bits and pieces. Itâs a matter of adding some AST transformations, fixing a few issues and tying it all together.</li> ><li>MapReduce inspired front-end: generic framework for executing transformations/analyses in-parallel and Mozilla-wide without blowing the 32bit address space (as it typical when static analysis tools meet Mozilla).</li> ></ul></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:54:08 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>tglek</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Gervase Markham: Weekly Status 2007-07-13</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/weekly_status_20070713.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/weekly_status_20070713.html</link> > <description><p><a name="Last%20Two%20Weeks"></a></p><h3>Last Two Weeks</h3> > ><ul> ><li>I have been effectively on holiday, moving house and doing personal stuff</li> ></ul> ><a name="Next%20Week"></a><h3>Next Week</h3> > ><ul> ><li>Catch up on email etc.</li> ><li>Travel to the US to <a href="http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2007/">SOUPS</a> and, the following week, <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/">OSCON</a></li> ></ul></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:57:32 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>gerv</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Calendar: Calendar Test Day Results</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2007/07/calendar_test_day_results.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2007/07/calendar_test_day_results.html</link> > <description>We had a good test day on Tuesday. Thanks to everyone that dropped by and helped with the testing. We managed to narrow down the "remote calendar problems" to two basic issues: ><p> ></p><ul> ><li> <strong> ICS/WebDav:</strong> It seems that most of these problems stemmed from incompatible Limit/LimitExcept statements and a change to our code base that causes writes to fail if authentication is required for PUTs but not GETs. This is best summed up in <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387559">bug 387559</a></li> ><li> <strong> ICS/WebDav and CalDav: </strong> There are also proxy issues affecting both clients for these server types. The proxy configuration seems to have been recently broken, with various reports stating that it worked in 0.3.1 and that it did not work in 0.3.1. We need further clarification on this issue. This issue is summed up in <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373439">bug 373439</a></li> ></ul> ><p> >We were able to track down the first issue to a specific check-in, and that is now being investigated. However, we need to do the same with the proxy issue. If you have a proxy configuration please try out various <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:QA_Home#Finding_a_Regression_Range_on_a_Bug">Lightning nightly builds</a> and see if you can determine the build where the proxy configuration stopped working. ></p><p> ><strong> Things We Could Use Help With </strong> ></p><ul> ><li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:QA_Home#Finding_a_Regression_Range_on_a_Bug">Determine the date</a> the proxy configuration stopped working as mentioned above.</li> ><li>Look at the list of these new <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&amp;short_desc=&amp;product=Calendar&amp;long_desc_type=substring&amp;long_desc=&amp;bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&amp;bug_file_loc=&amp;status_whiteboard_type=anywordssubstr&amp;status_whiteboard=disappear+publish&amp;keywords_type=allwords&amp;keywords=&amp;resolution=FIXED&amp;resolution=INVALID&amp;resolution=WONTFIX&amp;resolution=DUPLICATE&amp;resolution=WORKSFORME&amp;resolution=INCOMPLETE&amp;resolution=EXPIRED&amp;resolution=MOVED&amp;resolution=---&amp;emailassigned_to1=1&amp;emailtype1=exact&amp;email1=&amp;emailassigned_to2=1&amp;emailreporter2=1&amp;emailqa_contact2=1&amp;emailtype2=exact&amp;email2=&amp;bugidtype=include&amp;bug_id=&amp;votes=&amp;chfieldfrom=&amp;chfieldto=Now&amp;chfieldvalue=&amp;cmdtype=doit&amp;order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&amp;field0-0-0=noop&amp;type0-0-0=noop&amp;value0-0-0=">remote calendar bugs</a>, and see if we can duplicate some against others (leave us comments in the bug about your ideas).</li> ><li>Give us suggestions on how we can <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:QA_Improvements">improve calendar QA</a></li> ></ul> ><p> >Thanks very much to everyone that turned out for the test day. And congratulations to Alan Schwartz who won the prize for most creative test. ></p><p> >Happy Testing!!</p></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:22:17 +0000</pubDate> ></item> ><item> > <title>Alex Vincent: QAWanted: Reducing testcases</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018261.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/018261.html</link> > <description><p>I've gotten myself in a real pickle now. In writing this XULRunner app, Verbosio, I've ignored assertions, worked around oddities, but now I'm essentially blocked due to an obscure layout bug.</p> > ><p>Essentially, I have a XUL deck, and what that deck is reporting as its selected panel is in fact not what the user sees.</p> > ><p>Obviously, I should report it to Bugzilla. Except that I have no idea how to produce a testcase that will show the same results in Firefox 3.0 alpha 6 (the equivalent milestone). A bug that cannot be reproduced by a separate person is essentially INVALID, WONTFIX, and INCOMPLETE.</p> > ><p>There are exceptions, but they require an exceptionally dedicated hacker (thanks, bz!!!).</p> > ><p>So I am putting out a call for help. I need a few people who are willing to spend volunteer hours taking a look at these weird behaviors and trying to reduce them to manageable testcases which can be reproduced in Firefox 3 or XULRunner, either trunk or alpha 6. Once you've got such a testcase, please file a bug on it and cc me. If the bug is in Verbosio's code, use Mozdev's Bugzilla - otherwise, use mozilla.org's Bugzilla. (You may find that both are doing something wrong in the same area, which wouldn't surprise me.) I'm available weeknights and weekends, Pacific time zone.</p> > ><p>If you are willing to do so, please leave a comment on this blog entry. I'll gladly walk you through the process of reproducing these bugs in Verbosio (including building and running Verbosio). You'll need a XULRunner build, 1.9a6 or trunk, probably a debug build - and that means compiling your own. You'll also be getting your hands dirty with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Debugging">delta debugging</a> in XUL.</p> > ><p>I think the only reward you'll get for reducing the testcases and filing the bugs is an "attaboy" from various people in the Mozilla community. That, and having your testcase added to Mozilla's regression test harnesses, probably as a reftest. (For those near San Jose, California, it'll probably also mean a free meal.)</p> > ><p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: I'm going to work tonight on putting out a "snapshot" nightly so that no one will have to run Verbosio's make process. Then all you'll need is a XULRunner debug build. News at eleven.</p> > ><p><strong>UPDATE 2</strong>: I've posted a gzipped tarball snapshot to Verbosio's downloads directory. It'll take a few hours for the tarball to propagate to the mirrors, but the instructions for grabbing it are <a href="http://verbosio.mozdev.org/installation.html">here</a>.</p></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:50:12 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>WeirdAl</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Chris Double: Firefox Video Element Patch Version 2</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18561009.post-415431887390730585</guid> > <link>http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/07/firefox-video-element-patch-version-2.html</link> > <description>I've <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382267">attached a new version</a> of the Firefox Video Element Patch to bugzilla. As outlined in the bugzilla entry, this patch fixes/updates:<ul><li>Ogg codec support can be enabled/disabled with configure flag --disable-ogg. Currently if the Ogg codec is disabled then the video element is disabled too. In the future if/when other codecs are supported this can change.</li><li>Fix build problems when doing libxul enabled builds</li><li>Fix link error on windows when doing a --disable-libxul build</li><li>Fix colour playback issues on Linux and Windows</li><li>Handle no audio device being present</li><li>Adjust element size when video size information is read from the Ogg file</li><li>No longer use channel across threads</li><li>Various refactorings based on email feedback</li></ul>A couple of issues still to track down:<ol><li>Sound not working on Linux</li><li>Sound not working on Mac OS X optimized builds</li></ol>I've also updated the third party modules patch which you need to apply first: <a href="http://www.double.co.nz/video_test/third_party_modules.patch.gz">third_party_modules.patch.gz</a><br /><br />I've been regularly updating the <a href="http://www.double.co.nz/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi">Git repository</a> and it contains all these changes as well. <br /><br /><span class="technoratitag">Categories: <a href="http://del.icio.us/bluishcoder/firefox" rel="tag">firefox</a>, <a href="http://del.icio.us/bluishcoder/ogg" rel="tag">ogg</a></span></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:00:51 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Chris Double</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Planet Mozilla Blog: Planet Additions: Class of July 12 2007</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/planet/2007/07/12/planet-additions-class-of-july-12-2007/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/planet/2007/07/12/planet-additions-class-of-july-12-2007/</link> > <description><p><a href="http://steveengland.wordpress.com">Steve England </a>(<a href="http://steveengland.wordpress.com/feed/">feed</a>) - tester and triager</p> ><p><a href="http://micropipes.com/blog/">Wil Clouser</a> (<a href="http://micropipes.com/blog/category/mozilla/feed/atom/">feed</a>) - Member of the web development team at Mozilla, supporting and developing their dynamic, high traffic websites, with an emphasis on localization.</p> ><p><a href="http://www.hskupin.info">Henrik Skupin</a> (<a href="http://www.hskupin.info/category/mozilla/feed/">feed</a>) - Active member of Mozilla Europe and doing a lot of triage and small bug fixes.</p> ><p><a href="http://www.silfreed.net/">Doug Warner</a> (<a href="http://www.silfreed.net/mozdev.rss">feed</a>) - New full-time employee for Mozdev.</p> ><p><a href="http://mozmetrics.wordpress.com/">Firefox Metrics Project</a> (<a href="http://mozmetrics.wordpress.com/feed">feed</a>) - A group of students at Seneca/U of T in Toronto developing code to allow us to gather usage metrics (number of tabs, bookmark usage, etc.) from willing volunteers (e.g. nightly testers, beta, etc).</p> ><p><a href="http://lpsolit.wordpress.com/">Frédéric Buclin</a> (<a href="http://lpsolit.wordpress.com/tag/bugzilla/feed">feed</a> <a href="http://lpsolit.wordpress.com/tag/mozilla/feed">feed</a>) - Bugzilla manager and QA lead.</p></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:30:41 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>raccettura</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>MozillaZine: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Released</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:mozillazine.org,2004:article22201</guid> > <link>http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=22201</link> > <description><p>Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 was released on Thursday 14th June. This update to the Mozilla Corporation's mail client includes bug fixes but no new features. For the first time, this release of Thunderbird is available in Korean.</p> > <p>The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#thunderbird2.0.0.4">Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 section of the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories page</a> includes details about the security flaws fixed in this release while <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/">The Rumbling Edge</a> has a complete <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/06/tb_2-0-0-4.html" title="The Rumbling Edge: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Released">Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 changelog</a>. More general details can be found in the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/2.0.0.4/releasenotes/">Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Release Notes</a>.</p> > <p>This is the first minor update to Thunderbird 2 since the <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=21415" title="MozillaZine: Mozilla Thunderbird 2 Released">launch of Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 in April</a>; the version number was selected to match that of the latest Mozilla Firefox release.</p> > <p>The older Thunderbird 1.5 will continue to be supported until Thursday 18th October this year. <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=21968" title="MozillaZine: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 Released">Thunderbird 1.5.0.12</a> was released last month with the same security fixes as 2.0.0.4.</p> > <p>While Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 can be downloaded from the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/">Thunderbird product page</a>, most existing Thunderbird 2 users will have received it via the software update mechanism built in to the program.</p> > <p><a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=22201">Talkback</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:13:30 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>mozillaZine.org</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Al Billings: Kwik-E-Mart Visit</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/al/2007/07/12/kwik-e-mart-visit/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/al/2007/07/12/kwik-e-mart-visit/</link> > <description><p>As a promotion for the Simpsons Movie, the local Mountain View 7-11 about two miles from Mozilla has been converted to a Kwik-E-Mart for a while.</p> ><p>MoCo QA felt a need for squishees after the <a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/node/292" class="extlink">Test Execution Meeting</a> this afternoon so we took a run over there in <a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/user/jay" class="extlink">Jayâs</a> convertible.</p> ><p>I uploaded a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/albill/sets/72157600783944800/" class="extlink">set of photos</a> to Flickr that I took while we were there. I have a couple below:</p> ><p align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/albill/792906868/" title="Photo Sharing"><img width="500" alt="P1000670.JPG" height="375" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1098/792906868_1dbcb516ab.jpg" /></a><br /> >Mmmmâ¦donut!</p> ><p align="center"> </p> ><p align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/albill/792030205/" title="Photo Sharing"><img width="500" alt="P1000672.JPG" height="375" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1189/792030205_ad8a07057f.jpg" /></a><br /> >Jay!</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:42:28 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>abillings</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Brian Crowder: elinks</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/bcrowder/2007/07/12/11/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/bcrowder/2007/07/12/11/</link> > <description><p>A text-mode browser that does JavaScript (using Spidermonkey)? <a href="http://elinks.or.cz/">Neat</a>.</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:45:43 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>bcrowder</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Brian Crowder: Thunderbird Workaround for RSS</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/bcrowder/2007/07/12/thunderbird-workaround-for-rss/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/bcrowder/2007/07/12/thunderbird-workaround-for-rss/</link> > <description><p>I was hitting a bug with T-birdâs RSS reader, which I think I have now finally worked around. I have not been able to add new feeds for some time; and previously I had hit a bug where my feeds stopped updating. I fixed <em>that</em> by (wrongly) deleting the feeditems.rdf file from my T-bird profile. That seemed to cause other problems that I donât officially claim to understand.</p> ><p>Today, I exported my feeds, created a new RSS account, imported my feeds to that, and then deleted my old RSS account. This works brilliantly and I was able to add new feeds immediately to the new account. (Including a feed that required HTTP Basic Authentication, which I hadnât been able to use at all previously)</p> ><p>Itâs worth mentioning that I had tried out ThunderBrowse as a way to work around the HTTP Auth problem I was having, but it seems not to handle HTTP Auth requests at all. Too bad; ThunderBrowse could be really neat with a little bit of massaging; I hope it gets it.</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:38:14 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>bcrowder</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Michael Kaply: Firefox Enterprise Working Group Update</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.kaply.com/weblog/2007/07/12/firefox-enterprise-working-group-update/</guid> > <link>http://www.kaply.com/weblog/2007/07/12/firefox-enterprise-working-group-update/</link> > <description><p> >Fixed Eastern time - sorry about that. ></p> ><p> >I wanted to give an update on where we are with the Enterprise Working Group. Weâre planning our first call for Wednesday, July 25 at 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC. Hereâs the meeting details:</p> ><ul> ><li> 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 280 (US/INTL)</li> ><li> 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 280 (US)</li> ></ul> ><p>Please donât feel like you need to be involved in an âenterpriseâ in order to participate. Weâre expecting folks involved in enterprises, education institutions, and more. ></p> ><p> >Each of the calls will be organized around a central theme, with the primary goal being to simply communicate information and document that information, in the hopes that people inside and outside the group can learn from our experiences. For the first call, the theme is going to be âExperienceâ and Iâm hoping to get people to talk about what their experiences have been so far, not just with deploying Firefox but with communication around Firefox within their organization, including convincing people that itâs important. The theme of the next call (in approximately two weeks) is going to be âWishlistâ and weâll talk about what people see missing from Firefox for enterprise deployment. If you definitely want to speak about your experience on the call, you can email me in advance at <noscript>()</noscript> with your name and a summary and Iâll make sure you can share your experience. That will help things move along on the calll ></p> ><p> >Our plan on the calls is to allow for completely anonymous participation with regards to the company/institution for which you work. We understand that there is the potential for sensitive information to be shared, so no one is required to share their affiliation on the phone call or in any documents produced by the Firefox Enterprise Working Group unless they choose to do so. We will probably come up with some generic way to categorize companies like based on employee count or something like that, primarily so that companies with similar deployment situations can work together. ></p> ><p> >The wiki is going to be hosted at <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise">http://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise</a>. Weâll also be starting a blog specific to the group. ></p> ><p> >We look forward to your participation! ></p> ><p> >Incidentally, we already have someone that will participate in the Firefox Enterprise Working Group that is blogging. Check it out <a href="http://e2pt0.blogspot.com/">here</a>. ></p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:19:47 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>mkaply</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Deb Richardson: Most interesting, useful, or innovative add-ons?</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2007/07/12/584/</guid> > <link>http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2007/07/12/584/</link> > <description><p>There are a lot of <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/">add-ons</a> available for Firefox now, and I was wondering which you think are the most interesting, useful, innovative, or otherwise awesome. These donât have to necessarily be your âfavouriteâ or âmust-haveâ add-ons (although they can be), just those that youâve seen and played with and thought were particularly neat, useful, smart, or well designed.</p> ><p>Post a comment here (moderation is on, so it could take a while for your comment to show up) or email me privately at deb-at-dria-dot-org.</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:53:38 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>dria</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Calendar: Lightning/Sunbird Status Update (July 12)</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2007/07/lightningsunbird_status_update_1.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2007/07/lightningsunbird_status_update_1.html</link> > <description><p>Hi guys,<br /> >another week has gone by and I want to keep you informed about the latest new stuff that is going into the tree. The most notable fix in the last week was the fix for bug 376086, which introduces the multiweek view into Lightning, that all Sunbird users have already known for a long time. The only known limitation at the moment is, that you can only set the number of weeks that should be shown via the preferences dialog. Please help us in testing this and all the other stuff that has gone in lately.</p> ><p>Here's the list of fixed bugs since the last status update:</p> ><ul> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262811">Bug 262811</a>:<br />When hovering a ToDo item long lines of the description doesn't break into multiple lines</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332193">Bug 332193</a>:<br />agenda shows past and finished tasks</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364672">Bug 364672</a>:<br />Minimonth - Chinese weekday names indistinguishable</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369689">Bug 369689</a>:<br />In day and week views, events ending at midnight cannot be resized to a smaller size using the mouse</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373898">Bug 373898</a>:<br />Rounding issues for grid boxes in calendar multiday view</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376086">Bug 376086</a>:<br />Lightning does not support a multiweek view</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382755">Bug 382755</a>:<br />Lightning fails to process iTIP/iMIP invitations sent by Groupwise server</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383991">Bug 383991</a>:<br />Full SSL support for (Google) Calendars</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386483">Bug 386483</a>:<br />Allday event marks two days bold in minimonth</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386505">Bug 386505</a>:<br />can't switch to calendar mode using Thunderbird 1.5</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387294">Bug 387294</a>:<br />width of left pane is not set properly at startup</li> ><li><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387549">Bug 387549</a>:<br />bad lineends in sources files</li> ></ul> ><p>A huge 'Thanks' goes out to all our developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters. Keep up the good work!</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:29:53 +0000</pubDate> ></item> ><item> > <title>Doug Turner: Joey Goals...</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/archives/018260.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dougt/archives/018260.html</link> > <description><p> >I posted goals for the next 3 months up on the wiki page: ></p><p> ><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Joey/Goals/2007/Q3">http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Joey/Goals/2007/Q3</a> ></p><p> >Please give it a glance and let me know what you think. ></p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:47:19 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>dougt</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Frederic Wenzel: âGinormousâ Makes It Into The (American) Dictionary</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://fredericiana.com/2007/07/12/ginormous-makes-it-into-the-dictionary/</guid> > <link>http://fredericiana.com/2007/07/12/ginormous-makes-it-into-the-dictionary/</link> > <description><p>Hah, thatâs funny: The word <strong>âginormousâ</strong> made it into <a href="http://www.m-w.com/info/newwords07.htm">this yearâs update of the Merriam-Webster dictionary</a>, two years after it made first place in an online poll for the <em>âfavorite word not in the dictionaryâ</em>.</p> ><p>They <a href="http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ginormous">define it</a> as:</p> ><blockquote><p>extremely large, HUMONGOUS</p></blockquote> ><p>Awesome.</p> ><p><em>(via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/11/merriamwebster_new_w.html">bb</a>)</em></p> ><p><strong>Update:</strong> As a reader points out, it only wasnât in Merriam-Webster (an <strong>American</strong> dictionary) yet â while it has been <strong>British</strong> slang for a long time and thus can be found in the <a href="http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&amp;freesearch=ginormous&amp;branch=13842570&amp;textsearchtype=exact">Oxford dictionaries</a>. Thanks, Ian!</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:10:55 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Deb Richardson: Chinaâs Online Population Explosion</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2007/07/12/583/</guid> > <link>http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2007/07/12/583/</link> > <description><p>The <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/index.asp">Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project</a> issued a new report today discussing the explosive growth of the number internet users in China:</p> ><blockquote><p> >There are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million. The growth rate of Chinaâs internet user population has been outpacing that of the U.S., and China is projected to overtake the U.S. in the total number of users within a few years. ></p></blockquote> ><p><a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/218/source/rss/report_display.asp">Link</a>.</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:25:42 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>dria</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>J. Paul Reed: iInitial iPhone iImpressions</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/07/iinitial_iphone_iimpressions.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/07/iinitial_iphone_iimpressions.html</link> > <description><p>After having been <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/07/too_old_for_iphone_twooh.html"><strike>conned</strike> convinced to buy an iPhone</a> by <a href="http://samuelsidler.com/">ss</a> on opening night, I finally bit the bullet and activated it a couple of days later (using a Mac... sigh), and have been using it for a couple of weeks now.</p> > ><p>Admittedly, I've had more than a few "iPhone moments." I think my favorite was when I was heading home from an early-evening appointment and a hankering for Chinese food snuck up (you know how these things are). There's a place I always go to, so I Google-directioned them on my iPhone; the entry included their phone number. I called, placed my order, and by the time I got over there, which was on my way home anyway, my food was ready to go.</p> > ><p>Welcome to iLife 2.0!</p> > ><p>With that...</p> > ><p><b><u>iPros</u></b></p> > ><p>[<a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/07/iinitial_iphone_iimpressions.html#more">Continued...</a>]</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:12:40 +0000</pubDate> ></item> ><item> > <title>JT Batson: support.mozilla.com and community support sites</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5311521723696783296.post-2024600696877122107</guid> > <link>http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/2007/07/supportmozillacom-and-community-support.html</link> > <description>Since the Firefox Support community working group <a href="http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/2007/05/firefox-help-needs-your-help.html">announced its PRD</a> to create a knowledge base, forum and live chat at support.mozilla.com, many people have asked me how this will affect the community support sites around the globe. I will answer that in two parts: 1) Why we think the community driven support.mozilla.com is important 2) Community support sites are and will still be integral parts of the Mozilla community<br /><br />For the long time that Mozilla has not addressed user support of Firefox, these community sites have done an incredible job providing user support on behalf of the Mozilla community. However, as the user base has grown beyond tech savvy users, the support needs for Firefox have changed. After an open planning process of a few months, the support working group has determined the best way to meet the needs of the average <a href="http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/2007/05/firefox-help-needs-your-help.html">Firefox user is to create SUMO.<br /></a><br />Firefox support, even on Mozilla.com, will always be community driven. We couldnât and, just as important, wouldnât have it any other way. We also need to increase participation beyond the current contributors to meet the expected demand. To get involved, please contact me at jt at mozilla dot com.<br /><br />We fully expect that community support sites will continue to meet the needs of their users after the launch of SUMO. The larger the support community there is, the better things are for Mozilla users (Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Camino, etc). I suspect there will be lots we can all learn from each other.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">What about L10n?</span><br />The SUMO project will first be rolled out for en-US (because we have volunteers to make it happen). Locales who want to participate in the beta of SUMO are definitely welcome. Please contact me at jt at mozilla dot com for more information. Until others are rolled out, we will link to the community support sites in those locales (similar to what we do now).</description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:25:25 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>JT Batson</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Robert Sayre: Just Say No</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/11/just-say-no/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/07/11/just-say-no/</link> > <description><p>I would like to express my personal support for <a href="http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/07/11/Just-Say-No">JCP reform</a>.</p> ><p>An increase in the amount of directionless mailing list traffic only serves those with an interest in preserving the status quo. Nobody wants server Java specs from a bunch of commercial vendors. There is <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-jcp-open/200707.mbox/%3cD90201D6-1A34-4F85-98B7-7CD591A04A3D@gbiv.com%3e">no reason to put up with</a> intellectually dishonest standards efforts.</p> ><p>Evasive behavior should be greeted with swift action.</p></description> > <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:45:50 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>rsayre</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Songbird: Shuffle Up and Deal</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/1889</guid> > <link>http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/1889</link> > <description><p><img src="http://www.songbirdnest.com/files/images/67_shuffle.png" alt="Shuffle Up and Deal" /></p> ><p>In our efforts to improve Songbird's user-experience, we continually revisit and refine our interfaces to provide the levels of quality you'd expect from a consumer-grade piece of software. Spend too much time designing an single interface and eventually you become numb to its idiosyncrasies. Let it cool and revisit it with a fresh perspective, research, and seek other opinions in the meantime. Each release is an opportunity to refine both visual and interaction design elements. </p> ><p>On the visual design front, we're continuing to refine the visual design of our flagship feathers, Rubberducky, with new controls, better legibility and contrast, and a new sleeker faceplate. </p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate> ></item> ><item> > <title>Zach Lipton: AirMozilla Live!</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/zach/archives/018256.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/zach/archives/018256.html</link> > <description><p>Come join us live on the air and submit your questions now: <a href="http://air.mozilla.com">air.mozilla.com</a></p> > ><p><img src="http://www.zachlipton.com/airmoz.jpg" /></p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:00:14 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>zach</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>QMO: Help testing online banking and financial sites</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">http://quality.mozilla.org/293 at http://quality.mozilla.org</guid> > <link>http://quality.mozilla.org/node/293</link> > <description><p> >As most of you know, online banking/financial transactions are an important part of the web experience. We would like to gather a group of users who would be interesting in confirming that their online banks and financial institutions work with Firefox and in continuing to test and identify any potential issues as we move closer to the final ship of the next Firefox release. We need users in the U.S. as well as in the international space. For the U.S., these appear to be some of the top 10 online banks: ></p> ><p><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/node/293">read more</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:16:12 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>marcia</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>John Slater: Project List, 7.11.07</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.intothefuzz.com/2007/07/11/project-list-71007/</guid> > <link>http://www.intothefuzz.com/2007/07/11/project-list-71007/</link> > <description><p>Quick snapshot of the bigger projects that Iâm currently working on (in no particular order):</p> ><p>- <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com">SpreadFirefox</a> redesign<br /> >- Launching the new <a href="http://store.mozilla.org">Mozilla Store</a>, including site redesign, merchandise and promotional materials<br /> >- Site design for upgraded Firefox Support pages<br /> >- Visual identity and other materials for an upcoming add-ons contest<br /> >- <a href="http://www.mozilla.com">Mozilla.com</a> technology and IA upgrade<br /> >- New Firefox downloading page<br /> >- New Firefox first run page<br /> >- Improvements to the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/careers.html">Mozilla careers page</a></p> ><p>Screen shots and other details coming soon(ish)â¦</p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>John</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Shawn Wilsher: DOM Inspector and Events</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/111</guid> > <link>http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/111</link> > <description><p>There are some <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.dom-inspector/browse_thread/thread/980b59c1ea300420/6ceb1217b18062d2#6ceb1217b18062d2">fascinating</a> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.accessibility/browse_thread/thread/53df58d29cbf251c/5b5c4b1c1758a8bc#5b5c4b1c1758a8bc">discussions</a> going on in the newsgroups about the <acronym title="Document Object Model">DOM</acronym> Inspector and events. The basic summary is that there is a demand to view events on a particular node in the DOMi. The more discussion on this issue, the better, so please participate if you have anything to say about this.</p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Shawn Wilsher</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>AllPeers: Mozpad Meeting 2007-07-18</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/11/mozpad-meeting-2007-07-18/</guid> > <link>http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/07/11/mozpad-meeting-2007-07-18/</link> > <description><p>Iâd like to have a Mozpad meeting next Wednesday (same <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&amp;day=18&amp;year=2007&amp;hour=16&amp;min=0&amp;sec=0&amp;p1=0&quot;&quot;">time</a> and <a href="irc://irc.mozilla.org/mozpad">place</a> as usual). Two things Iâd like to discuss are status of the various action items and a more general look at the IDE project (which Iâll be posting more about in the interim).</p> ><p>If people canât make it or donât think itâs worth meeting in this timeframe, please let me know.</p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:35:16 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Li Gong: ç«çæ¬å°åèç»ç»å¯å¨</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/ligong/2007/07/11/%e7%81%ab%e7%8b%90%e6%9c%ac%e5%9c%b0%e5%8c%96%e8%81%94%e7%bb%9c%e7%bb%84%e5%90%af%e5%8a%a8/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/ligong/2007/07/11/%e7%81%ab%e7%8b%90%e6%9c%ac%e5%9c%b0%e5%8c%96%e8%81%94%e7%bb%9c%e7%bb%84%e5%90%af%e5%8a%a8/</link> > <description><p>æè¿ä¸ç´å¨ä¸è®¸å¤äººè®¨è®ºå¦ä½è½æ´å¥½å°å¸®å©ç«çæµè§å¨æ¬å°åæ¹é¢çå·¥ä½ã讨论æ¥è®¨è®ºå»ï¼å¤§å®¶é½æåæï¼å°±æ¯ä¸åè¡èç»ä¸å¤å¤ï¼ä¹ä¸ä¸å®ç¥éé½æè°æç±»ä¼¼çå ´è¶£ã两天åæä»¬å¤§æ¦å个人å卿¥¼ä¸B1çSPRåå¡é¦èäºä¸ä¸åï¼è§å¾æå¿ è¦ç»ç»ç»ç»ã</p> ><p>å ·ä½è¯´æ¯å¯å¨ä¸ä¸ªï¼ææ¶å为ï¼ç«çæ¬å°åèç»ç»ãæææ¯å æå¤§å®¶éèµ·æ¥ï¼åå ±è®®å¤§ä¸ãå¯å¨æ¹å¼é¦å æ¯è¯·å¤§å®¶ç»<span><a href="mailto:firefoxer.register@gmail.com">firefoxer.register@gmail.com</a></span>åé®ä»¶ï¼åç¥ä½ æå ´è¶£ãï¼æå¥½è½æ³¨æä½ çååï¼ææºå·ï¼åæå¨åå¸ï¼ä»¥ä¾¿èç³»åè®¡åæ´»å¨ãä½å¦æä¸æ¿æéé²å¤ªå¤ä¸ªäººä¿¡æ¯ï¼ä¹æ²¡å ³ç³»ãè½çè§£ãï¼åæ¶æä»¬å¼è®¾äºä¸ä¸ªä¸æçIRCé¢éï¼<span>irc.mozilla.org#firefox-cnï¼å¯éæ¶éè¯ãé®ç®±ç±å¼ ç¾½ï¼</span>彿´ï¼åè¿å é®ä¸ä½å¿æ¿è è´è´£æ¶éä¿¡æ¯ãé¢éä¸ä¹ä¼å¸¸å¸¸æäººãéè¦IRC软件çå¯å°<span><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16</a> </span>ç»èªå·±çç«çå®è£ ä¸ä¸ªå«<span>chatzillaçæä»¶ï¼ç¶åå¨ç½åçå°æ¹å</span> irc://irc.mozilla.org#firefox-cnå°±å¯ä»¥ç¨äºã</p> ><p>æå ä»¶äºéè¦è¯´æãé¦å ï¼è¿ä¸ªèç»ç»ä¸æ¯ä¸ºäºä¸»æç¤¾åºçææ¯é¡¹ç®ï¼ä¹ä¸æ¿ä»£ç°æçç»ç»ææ´»å¨ãå ¶å¯ä¸ç®çå°±æ¯æå¤§å®¶ä¸²èµ·æ¥ï¼ä»¥æ¹ä¾¿èç³»åäºç¸å¸®å©ãè¬å¦è¯´ï¼å¤§å®¶å¯ä»¥è®¨è®ºæ¯å¦è¦å»ºç«è®ºåæè å¦ä½ç»ç»ä»ä¹æ ·çæ´»å¨ä¼æææåæä¹ãå¦å¤ï¼è½ç¶æä»¬ç¨ç«çä½ååï¼ä»¥åä¹å¯æ¹ï¼ï¼ä½ä»»ä½ä¸ç«çç¸å ³ç齿¯å¯èèèå´ä¹å çãåä¹ï¼æ¬å°åä¸ä» ä» å±éäºè±æç¿»è¯æä¸æã为ä¸å½å¸åºéä½è£è¡£å®ä½éç¨çæä»¶ï¼çé¢ï¼ä¸»é¢ï¼ç¹æ§ï¼ççï¼é½æ¯å¾å¼å¾æ¢è®¨çè¯é¢ãè¿æï¼ä¸ä» ç®åå¨ç«çä¸åè´¡ç®çæå们å¯ä»¥å å ¥ï¼ä»»ä½å¯¹ç«ççç¸å ³çææ¯ï¼äº§åï¼å¸åºåæ¹é¢ææå ³å¿ç人é½å¨å¾å欢è¿ä¹åã</p> ><p>æè¿éå æç å¼çãæå¾ å¤§å®¶å ±å讨论æä»¬çå屿¹åã</p> ><p>ä¸å®ä¸è¦å¿äºç»èç»ç»åé®ä»¶ã并请äºç¸è½¬åã</p> ><p><span>æåï¼è°¢è°¢å天ä¸åå¿è®¨è®ºçæå们ãä»ä»¬æ¯ï¼éæºæåï¼é伯鹰</span> (Brian Lu)<span>, æ²ä½³ç</span> (Leon Sha)<span>, é¢å¼º</span> (Even Yan)<span>, å¼ ç¾½</span> (Rachel Zhang), 彿´ (Alfred Peng), 宫å (Li Gong), è¿å é® (Jack Guo), æ¨å°äº (Sharon Yang), ç³èµæ (Sherring Shi), and æ¨æ³¢ (Bo Yang)ã</p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:17:04 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>lgong</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>MozillaZine: Security Exploit Uses Internet Explorer to Attack Mozilla Firefox</title> > <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:mozillazine.org,2004:article22198</guid> > <link>http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=22198</link> > <description><p>Firefox_User sent us a link to a <a href="http://news.com.com/">CNET News.com</a> article about a <a href="http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9741435-7.html" title="CNET News.com: Firefox and IE together brew up security trouble">security threat to Windows users with both Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer installed</a>. The issue can allow an attacker to remotely trick Firefox into executing potentially malicious code. However, a user has to be running Internet Explorer to actually get exploited.</p> > <p>Security researcher <a href="http://larholm.com/">Thor Larholm</a> has published a <a href="http://larholm.com/2007/07/10/internet-explorer-0day-exploit/" title="Larholm.com: Internet Explorer 0day Exploit">description of how the security flaw works</a>, including a proof-of-concept (though some have reported that they cannot get this to work). When installed on Windows, Firefox registers a URL protocol handler to handle firefoxurl:// URLs (this works much like a http:// or ftp:// URL protocol handler). If an IE user visits a webpage that tries to call a firefoxurl:// URL (for example, using an iframe), IE will launch Firefox with no further prompting, passing it the URL. Neither IE nor Firefox escape or sanitise the URL, which allows an attacker to inject additional parameters into the command line used to invoke Firefox. Used in combination with the <kbd>-chrome</kbd> parameter, the attacker can make Firefox execute dangerous JavaScript code.</p> > <p>There's some debate as to where the blame lies â is it IE for passing untrusted data to another application or Firefox for not validating input properly? <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/">SecurityFocus</a> refers to the problem as a <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24837/" title="SecurityFocus: Microsoft Internet Explorer FirefoxURL Protocol Handler Command Injection Vulnerability"><cite>Microsoft Internet Explorer FirefoxURL Protocol Handler Command Injection Vulnerability</cite></a>, placing the blame with Redmond, while <a href="http://secunia.com/">Secunia</a> calls it a <a href="http://secunia.com/advisories/25984/" title="Secunia: Firefox "><cite>Firefox "firefoxurl" URI Handler Registration Vulnerability</cite></a>, pointing the finger at Mozilla. News.com quotes Oliver Friedrichs of <a href="http://www.symantec.com/security_response/index.jsp">Symantec's Security Response Center</a>, who says, "It's a little bit of both."</p> > <p>On the official <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/security/">Mozilla Security Blog</a>, the Mozilla Corporation's Window Synder (who used to work for Microsoft) says that a fix will be included in the forthcoming Firefox 2.0.0.5. That said, she seems to suggest that she considers this to be mostly a problem with IE, noting that Apple fixed a similar issue with Safari recently. However, according to the <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/">ZDNet Zero Day</a> security weblog, <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=362" title="ZDNet Zero Day: UPDATED: Command injection flaw found in IE: Or is it Firefox?">Microsoft claims the firefoxurl:// bug "is not a vulnerability in a Microsoft product"</a>.</p> > <p>On his weblog, <a href="http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/">Jesper Johansson</a> (who also used to work for Microsoft), says the <a href="http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/07/10/blocking-the-firefox-gt-ie-0-day.aspx" title="Jesper's Blog: Blocking the Firefox -&gt; IE 0-day">firefoxurl:// flaw is a Mozilla problem</a>. He also provides instructions for unregistering the URL protocol handlers.</p> > <p>Thanks to roseman for some of the links used in this report.</p> > <p><a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=22198">Talkback</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>mozillaZine.org</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Li Gong: Firefox CN Localization Liaison Group Started</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/ligong/2007/07/11/firefox-cn-localization-liaison-group-started/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/ligong/2007/07/11/firefox-cn-localization-liaison-group-started/</link> > <description><p>Recently a bunch of us have been discussing how best we can help out with all the Mozilla/Firefox localization effort, by contributing time, effort, and resources, and by facilitating communications and collaboration. It has become obvious that people relevant to this effort would like to get more organized.</p> ><p>After a more detailed discussion held at the SPR Cafe in the basement of our building at Tsinghua Science Park two days ago, we decided to initiate a grouping, which we call, for the time being, <strong>the Firefox CN Lozalization Liaison Group</strong>. I know this is a mouthful â members of this group can decide what to call it eventually or what nicknames to adopt.</p> ><p>The creation of this group is not meant to drive any community project work or replace any of the existing activities. Its sole purpose is to facilitate communication and collaboration among all the folks who are involved with localizing Firefox and other related products. Indeed this is not necessarily limited to Firefox. For example, its scope can also cover the localization of Firefox extensions. Moreover, by localization, we meant more than Han-Hua (translating English strings to Chinese). For instance, creating adaptations and extensions for the China market would be very interesting. [And this is why I did not use L10N as a shorthand, as that is commonly taken to mean just translation of the language.] Finally, this group is not limited to people who are already contributing to the Mozilla/Firefox projects. Anyone interested in the technologies, products, deployment and other issues could join.</p> ><p>We decided to get organized first by asking people to sign up and also openning an IRC channel in Chinese. Later we will see whether it is benefitial to establish mailing aliases, forums, and to organize (social and/or project-related) gatherings and events.</p> ><p>To sign up, please send email to <span><a href="mailto:firefoxer.register@gmail.com">firefoxer.register@gmail.com</a></span> , which is monitored by Alfred Peng and Rachel Zhang at Sun ERI and Jack Guo at Mozilla Online. It would be best if you send in some information about yourself (such as your name, city where you are, your cellphone number, etc.) so the group can better understand where its members are; but if for privacy reasons you decide not to include such information, that would be OK too.</p> ><p>The IRC channel is open at <span>irc.mozilla.org#firefox-cn. </span>For those needing an IRC tool, you can go to <span><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16</a> </span>and install a Firefox add-on <span>called chatzilla, </span>and then type into the URL box irc://irc.mozilla.org#firefox-cn and get connected to many of us.</p> ><p><span></span>A word of thanks to those who were present at the SPR cafe discussion (in no particular order): <span>é伯鹰</span> (Brian Lu)<span>, æ²ä½³ç</span> (Leon Sha)<span>, é¢å¼º</span> (Even Yan)<span>, å¼ ç¾½</span> (Rachel Zhang), 彿´ (Alfred Peng), 宫å (Li Gong), è¿å é® (Jack Guo), æ¨å°äº (Sharon Yang), ç³èµæ (Sherring Shi), and æ¨æ³¢ (Bo Yang) .</p> ><p>Please remember to send in an email to sign up! (And help spread the word!)</p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:26:40 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>lgong</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Mark Finkle: WebRunner 0.5 - Mac Support</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/07/webrunner-05-mac-support/</guid> > <link>http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/07/webrunner-05-mac-support/</link> > <description><p><a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/07/webrunner-05-now-with-more-power/">WebRunner</a> now has Mac support. By support I mean we have a DMG for installs and we use CFBundleDocumentTypes to associate *.webapp files with WebRunner. Launching a *.webapp file should launch WebRunner and load the *.webapp profile.</p> ><p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.bitstampede.com/">Eric Shepherd</a> for the pointers to CFBundleDocumentTypes.</p> ><p>I am interested in feedback on the Mac menu (which I hide). To close the web application, just close the window. I know this is not very Mac-ish, so I am interested in how we could display the menu, but have it say âGoogle Mailâ, instead of âWebRunnerâ. Yes, Iâd like the menu to change based on the web application. Hmmm, maybe we could put something in the webapp profile.</p> ><p>Anyway, have funâ¦</p> ><p>Install: <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/webrunner/webrunner-0.5-mac.dmg">webrunner-0.5-mac.dmg</a> (18MB)<br /> >Profiles: <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/webrunner/gmail.webapp">gmail.webapp</a>, <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/webrunner/gcalendar.webapp">gcalendar.webapp</a>, <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/webrunner/gdocs.webapp">gdocs.webapp</a> &amp; <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/webrunner/groups.webapp">groups.webapp</a></p> ><p>UPDATE #1: removed the silly debugging alert<br /> >UPDATE #2: added a menu for quiting and fixed cozbyâs (see comments) bug</p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:58:14 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Mark Finkle</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Gen Kanai: doing big things for love</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/07/11/doing-big-things-for-love/</guid> > <link>http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/07/11/doing-big-things-for-love/</link> > <description><p> Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!</p> ><p>Clayâs presentation from Supernova 2007 goes from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Shrine_of_Ise">Ise Shrine</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl">perl</a> to software support (<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/topics">comp.lang.perl.misc</a>) to <a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=T">AT&amp;T</a> to love.</p> ><blockquote><p><em> âperl is a shinto shrineâ </em></p> ><p><em> âyou will make more accurate predictions about software, and in this web-driven world, about services, if you <strong>ask yourself not âwhatâs the business modelâ but âdo the people who like it take care of each other?â</strong> That turns out to be the better predictor of longevity.â </em></p> ><p><em> âit does mean that the ability to aggregate non-financial motivations, to get people together outside of managerial culture and for reasons other than the profit motive, has received a huge comparative advantage. And it also means that many of the future commercial opportunities are going to be inextricably intertwined with that kind of work and those kind of groups.â </em></p> ><p><em> âWe have always loved one another. Weâre human, itâs something weâre good at. But up until recently, the radius and half-life of that affection has been quite limited. With love alone, you can get a birthday party together. Add coordinating tools and you can write an operating system. <strong>In the past we would do little things for love, but big things, big things required money. Now we can do big things for love.â</strong></em></p></blockquote> ><p><a href="http://conversationhub.com/2007/07/10/video-clay-shirky-on-love-internet-style/">Video: Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:19:13 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>Gen Kanai</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Gervase Markham: Free Software Video Streaming</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/free_software_video_streaming.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/07/free_software_video_streaming.html</link> > <description><p><a href="http://www.numenity.org/blog/2007/07/06/a-note-about-air-mozilla/">Paul Kim has noted</a> that he is unhappy that <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2007/07/relaunch_of_air.html">Air Mozilla</a> will be using proprietary Flash technology.</p> > ><p>If anyone knows of a free software video streaming system with capabilities similar to <a href="http://www.mogulus.com/account/screenshots">Mogulus</a>. the one they have chosen, please let us know :-)</p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:10:19 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>gerv</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Rumbling Edge - Thunderbird: 2007-07-09 Sunbird 0.7 builds</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/07/20070709_sunbird_07_builds.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/07/20070709_sunbird_07_builds.html</link> > <description><p>Calendar:</p> ><ul class="good"> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384301" target="_blank">384301</a> >- Kenya Holidays calendar available here</li> ></ul> ><p>Common:</p> ><ul class="good"> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350323" target="_blank">350323</a> >- show hidden calendars when they are selected.</li> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364672" target="_blank">364672</a> >- Minimonth: Chinese weekday names indistinguishable; even after >expanding sidebar</li> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369689" target="_blank">369689</a> >- In day and week views, events ending at midnight cannot be resized to >a smaller size using the mouse</li> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372868" target="_blank">372868</a> >- Schema out-of-date error check forces Tb to quit, so you can't >disable Ln</li> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373898" target="_blank">373898</a> >- rounding issues for grid boxes in calendar multiday view</li> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386481" target="_blank">386481</a> >- The view in mini calendar are not refreshed at once after subscribing >to remote calendar</li> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386639" target="_blank">386639</a> >- All day event dates are not displayed due to missing entitiy "AllDay" >in dateFormat.properties</li> ></ul> ><p>Lightning-only:</p> ><ul class="good"> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386505" target="_blank">386505</a> >- Cannot switch to Calendar mode using Thunderbird 1.5</li> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386556" target="_blank">386556</a> >- Add missing IDs in 'messenger-overlay-sidebar.xul'</li> ></ul> ><p>Sunbird-only:</p> ><ul class="good"> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262811" target="_blank">262811</a> >- When hovering a ToDo item long lines of the description doesn't break >into multiple lines</li> > <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373350" target="_blank">373350</a> >- Days in minimonth should not be shrinked to one character</li> ></ul> ><p>No outstanding bugs marked critical or blocker.</p> ><p>For outstanding bugs with severity level major and below, >please see <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&amp;short_desc=&amp;product=Calendar&amp;long_desc_type=substring&amp;long_desc=&amp;bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&amp;bug_file_loc=&amp;status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&amp;status_whiteboard=&amp;keywords_type=nowords&amp;keywords=&amp;bug_status=NEW&amp;bug_status=ASSIGNED&amp;bug_status=REOPENED&amp;emailassigned_to1=1&amp;emailtype1=exact&amp;email1=&amp;emailassigned_to2=1&amp;emailreporter2=1&amp;emailqa_contact2=1&amp;emailtype2=exact&amp;email2=&amp;bugidtype=include&amp;bug_id=&amp;votes=&amp;chfieldfrom=&amp;chfieldto=Now&amp;chfieldvalue=&amp;cmdtype=doit&amp;order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&amp;field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&amp;type0-0-0=equals&amp;value0-0-0=blocking-calendar0.7%2B" target="_blank">this >list of bugs</a> with 0.7+ flags. (Currently 23 at time of >writing)</p> ><p>Lightning vanilla .xpi:</p> ><p class="windows builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/winicon.png" alt="Windows builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Windows builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/2007-07-09-03-mozilla1.8/windows-xpi/lightning.xpi">Official >Windows .xpi</a> ></p> ><p class="linux builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/linuxicon.png" alt="Linux builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Linux builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/2007-07-09-03-mozilla1.8/linux-xpi/lightning.xpi">Official >Linux .xpi</a> ></p> ><p class="mac builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/macosx.png" alt="Mac builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Mac builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/nightly/2007-07-09-03-mozilla1.8/mac-xpi/lightning.xpi">Official >Mac .xpt</a></p> ><p>Sunbird builds:</p> ><p class="windows builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/winicon.png" alt="Windows builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Windows builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/nightly/2007-07-09-04-mozilla1.8/sunbird-0.7pre.en-US.win32.zip">Official >Windows</a>, <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/nightly/2007-07-09-04-mozilla1.8/sunbird-0.7pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe">Official >Windows installer</a> ></p> ><p class="linux builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/linuxicon.png" alt="Linux builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Linux builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/nightly/2007-07-09-04-mozilla1.8/sunbird-0.7pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz">Official >Linux (i686)</a> ></p> ><p class="mac builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/macosx.png" alt="Mac builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Mac builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/nightly/2007-07-09-03-mozilla1.8/sunbird-0.7pre.en-US.mac.dmg">Official >Mac (Universal binary)</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:45:31 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>skywalker</dc:creator> ></item> ><item> > <title>Rumbling Edge - Thunderbird: 2007-07-09 Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 builds</title> > <guid isPermaLink="true">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/07/20070709_thunderbird_15013_builds.html</guid> > <link>http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/07/20070709_thunderbird_15013_builds.html</link> > <description><p>No checkins during this period.</p> ><p>No outstanding bugs.</p> ><p class="windows builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/winicon.png" alt="Windows builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Windows builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2007-07-09-08-mozilla1.8.0/thunderbird-1.5.0.13pre.en-US.win32.zip">Official >Windows</a>, <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2007-07-09-08-mozilla1.8.0/thunderbird-1.5.0.13pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe">Official >Windows installer</a> (<a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=564218" target="_blank">discussion</a>) ></p> ><p class="linux builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/linuxicon.png" alt="Linux builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Linux builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2007-07-09-04-mozilla1.8.0/thunderbird-1.5.0.13pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz">Official >Linux (i686)</a> ></p> ><p class="mac builds"> <img src="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/macosx.png" alt="Mac builds" style="width: 18px; height: 18px;" title="Mac builds" /> ><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2007-07-09-03-mozilla1.8.0/thunderbird-1.5.0.13pre.en-US.mac.dmg">Official >Mac (Universal binary)</a></p></description> > <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:20:25 +0000</pubDate> > <dc:creator>skywalker</dc:creator> ></item> > ></channel> ></rss>
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