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Firefox 2.0 is out

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Yep, it is supposed to be officially announced tomorrow but if you now how to try, you can get the final 2.0 from their website. You want a proof? Here we go, a screenshot:

Firefox 2.0

I like the new layout, icons are smaller, it is a little bit more integrated with MacOS X. Preferences are also improved as well as Extensions/Themes GUI. I really like to be able to restore all my last tabs when I launch Firefox or after a crash.

RSS feeds are also manage in a better way but I still prefer the way it is in Safari. With Firefox, it is very unconfortable to go trough a list of ‘Live Bookmarks’ in your bookmark…I guess it will come for version 3, next year. Beside this, it is worth the upgrade, do it NOW! Not to mention that most of my useful extensions are already compatible:

I used to have Tab X, but it is now part of Firefox (with more features). I do not want to list all new features of Firefox itself because I am sure that you can read about them almost everywhere on the web.

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Prototyping “Lightbox”

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

I really like what Lokesh Dhakar has done with lightbox. I wanted to use..and I did! My personal blog is using it for most of photos in any of my posts (maybe I should create a plugin for Dotclear, the blog system I am using on my personal blog…some time I am so lazy!). It looks nice and it is simple to use. But what? I am not writing an article just to say that right?

My concerns when I looked at the javascript behind were:

  1. the code is not Object -Oriented,
  2. everything is created within the javascript, I mean, the div tag and all html inside, which make any adaptation for design purpose a little bit tricky,
  3. As I mentioned in my previous post, I use a lot Prototype, and there are a lot of things that could be simplify in lightbox with Prototype.

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“Prototype-ing” an app

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

I am currently working on a small open-source web application (more on this later…) following the so called web 2.0 kind of approach. Like you would expect from a web 2.0 style app, we will soon put online a beta ;-)
I decided to use the famous Prototype library and add on top of it script.aculo.us (Prototype based) as well as the brand new event:Selector (Prototype based too). It is simply amazing how powerful and beautiful are those tools, they give me a new pleasure to code in javascript. Thanks to those fantastic creators!

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