Ramblings & ephemera
As some of you may have heard, Google has announced its own web browser, Chrome. It’s releasing the Windows version today, with Mac & Linux versions to follow.
To educate people about the new browser & its goals, they release a 38 pg comic book drawn by the brilliant Scott McCloud. It’s a really good read, [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Two methods:
about:config
Change browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true
browser.tabs.loadInBackground should already be set to true
user.js
// open diverted links in background tabs
user_pref(”browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground”, true);
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From Federico Biancuzzi’s “Phishing with Rachna Dhamija” (SecurityFocus: 19 June 2006):
We discovered that existing security cues are ineffective, for three reasons:
1. The indicators are ignored (23% of participants in our study did not look at the address bar, status bar, or any SSL indicators).
2. The indicators are misunderstood. For example, one regular Firefox user told [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Clay Shirky’s “The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview“:
The systems that have succeeded at scale have made simple implementation the core virtue, up the stack from Ethernet over Token Ring to the web over gopher and WAIS. The most widely adopted digital descriptor in history, the URL, regards semantics as a side conversation between consenting [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Jesse James Garrett’s “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications“:
Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:
standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
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Posted on April 8th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Dive Into Mark“:
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 working draft from April 24, 2002. Only 3 weeks old!
The overall goal is to create Web content that is Perceivable, Operable, Navigable, and Understandable by the broadest possible range of users and compatible with their wide range of assistive technologies, now and in the future.
Perceivable. Ensure that [...]
Posted on February 21st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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I’m trying out a new web browser - Flock - which is basically Firefox with social software tools baked in, such as blogging, Flickr, del.icio.us, & so on. Basically, all the stuff I use anyway. So far, Flock looks pretty interesting, although I’m not yet sure at all that I would use it for my [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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Man, Jason Statham is a great action star, and The Transporter is a fantastic movie of its type.
Me: Let's see Transporter 3. Robin: I don't know, shouldn't I watch 1 & 2 first so I understand it? Me: Ahahahahahahahahahaha!
JavaScript would be more immediately useful, but it IS programming. XML would be more useful longterm, & would be a nice intro. Make sense?
I wish Mother Nature would decide if she wants to snow or rain or what.
Added a product to their wishlist:
Good God a'mighty but that big man positively.WAILS on the geetar!
The amazingly loud & good Tony Campanella is just starting. This guy rocked the house last year.
On my way with Robin to the annual Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute show at the Pageant. $15 for a kickass 3 hour + show. Awesomeness!
Daniel Craig = best James Bond ever. Good flick. Amazing fight s