One of my favorite Mozilla features is the sidebar. As mozilla.org describes it,
"The sidebar in Mozilla is the "always-on" content area on the left-side of your browser. The sidebar contains tabs that can provide you with tidbits of information that you want to be self-refreshing and for which you would ordinarily not want to open an entirely new browser. Examples of such tabs include: stock information for your favorite picks, news headlines, links related to the current browser page content, search result lists, a quickly navigable history view, your bookmarks, up-to-date sports scores and more."
Here's a picture of my sidebar in action:
I really love the sidebar, and I've got several sidebars that I use constantly. Here they are:
| CSS 1 |
Zvon.org |
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Really good. Everything you need to know, and also provides links to the W3C standard. |
| CSS 2 |
Zvon.org |
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Also really good. Everything you need to know about the latest CSS standard. Also provides links to the W3C standard. |
| DOM 1 |
Zvon.org |
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If you're into JavaScripting ... |
| DOM 2 |
Zvon.org |
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If you're into JavaScripting & you want to support the latest standard ... |
| Google |
Install a new Google sidebar panel |
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The best search engine in the world ... and not just Web search. You also get images, directory, and groups. |
| MapQuest |
My Sidebar Directory > Reference |
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Enter an address & see a map. What could be simpler ... or more useful? |
| Note-It |
LiveSidebar Cool Tabs |
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Adds a Post-It pad to your browser. You can email the notes to yourself, if you'd like. A nice, handy little app. |
| SOAP |
Zvon.org |
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An XML standard for the interchange of data in a distributed environment. |
| XHTML Basic |
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XHTML is a reformulation of HTML to conform with XML; XHTML Basic is designed to be shared among various devices ("user agents" in XHTML-speak), such as computers, cell phones, PDAs, and so on. |
| XHTML {Frameset | Strict | Transitional} |
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XHTML is a reformulation of HTML to conform with XML. There are three different DTDs for XHTML; however, you really only need Transitional, since you can get to the others from it. Also note that you can get to the W3C standards from here. |
| XLink |
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Linking in the XML world: not just unidirectional, like HTML linking, but much, much more. |
| XSLT |
Zvon.org |
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An XML language to translate XML documents into other types of documents, including XML and HTML. |
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Want to create your own sidebar? Check out some of these resources:
Creating RSS and CDF files ~ http://zvon.org/Documents/d2/aboutRSS.html
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