For you Gecko fans out there, the Mozilla Foundation has released Mozilla 1.5a still based on SeaMonkey code. Now, I was under the impression that when they said “Firebird will replace SeaMonkey” that they were talking about codebases, not products. I had thought that Mozilla 1.6 or 1.7 would switch from the SeaMonkey codebase to the Firebird codebase, but according to the Mozilla Firebird™ Roadmap, it looks as though the Mozilla Application Suite product will come to an end, and the Mozilla Firebird™ browser will be the currently supported product.

I keep ending up having these discussions debates with people a person that is beginning to irritate me. They keep going on and on about how modern web design styles suck, that there are no good-looking XHTML+CSS sites on the web (except, of course, for CSS Zen Garden), and that the all-mighty W3C is just making new rules (aka “standards”) for web design to shove the poor common people out of the market. I have since decided that this individual is a lost cause in the case of web standards, and as such, I am boycotting their website in protest.

I had really been hoping to get a job with Netscape doing some sort of Standards Evangelism. Oh well. Anyways, I just read this post on Zeldman’s site. I thought it was interesting.

Many of us knew it was coming, but had hoped it wouldn’t. A quote from Glazblog and Zeldman reads: “People, it’s over. Netscape is dead. Nothing to see here.” MozillaZine was one of the first (and so far, the only) site to comment of the death of this web pioneer. To quote: “It has been learned through public and private sources that AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they’ve even pulled the logos off the buildings).

There is a Windows/Internet Explorer/Windows Media security hole that allows programmers to write a malicious script that opens all of your CD-ROM drives from the Windows Media ActiveX plug-in. This security hole has officially been patched. Just visit the Windows Update site to download the patch.

Just want to say congratulations to Jeffrey Zeldman on his marriage. May it be good, healthy, and full of spastic children.

Either that, or I just need a new ISP. My cable modem has been cutting in and out alot over the last week. Resetting it seems to help, but I shouldn’t have to do that as often as I have. This sucks.

Well, mostly… Mozilla 1.4 was released June 30th, right along with Netscape 7.1. It’s a beautiful thing. Along with many other features, we got about:config, which allows you to tweak out a variety of hidden settings, as well as support for GeckoActiveXObject. about:config allows you to mess with all sorts of nifty things, like enabling general.smoothScrolling and timebomb.first_launch_time, whatever that is. Supposedly, Gecko 1.4’s ability to understand ActiveX objects is limited to Windows Media Player. I haven’t had any time to test yet, but I’m hoping it supports other plug-ins as well.

I downloaded Refer 2.01 today. With only minimal tweaking, I was able to get it working mostly how I wanted it to. This software is written in PHP and utilizes a MySQL database. It’s pretty cool. It’s better than one of those ugly little free counters, and it gives you alot more information too. The only quirk that it has is that on my script pages, I’ve got another PHP file that loads a document into an iframe. It seems to be posting these too.

Mozilla 1.4 Release Candidate 3 is out now. They’re really moving along on this thing. I read reports that 1.4 final should be available by the end of next week. Also Netscape 7.1 is expected not too long after that based on the 1.0.3 Gecko build (1.4’s codebase). More and more people are switching to Gecko every day! This is exciting. On the other hand, maybe I just spend alot of time conversing with other web designers, who for the most part all use Gecko browsers anyways.