Category Archives: Web

Oooh.. this is a nice bookmarklet! It displays information about the components of a web page by simply moving the mouse over them. This is another to add to my “Web” folder.

Via del.icio.us:

• The Standards compliant, table-less Xhtml and Css code generator – Very nice app for generating CSS layouts!
• CSS Based Navigation – very cute and pretty navigation!

When your webserver isn’t running localhost isn’t very useful! Firefox/Firebird/Mozilla and possibly other browsers will then search for localhost and right now it finds localhost.be!
The author of that site wondered where all his visitors were coming from before the cookie dropped! The last localhost I remember on Google was an Australian localhost AFAIR. It looked commercial and the guy linked above should put a few Google ads on his site!
How to avoid visiting his site? Disable keywords in Firefox.

Ooer. Looks like a vulnerability in Mozilla. It doesn’t mention Firebird or Firefox explicitly but I presume they’re vunerable too unfortunately.

This looks really useful. It lets you choose a colour scheme and paint it onto a mini web page. (Via Scripty Goddess)

Dave updated the style sheet on his blog so that the first letter of his blog entries are super big. Nice! Now, if the letter was vertically up a bit more it’d look a lot better. In Moz FF there’s an annoying space above the letter..

This css debugger looks very useful to try and figure out what the hell’s happening on certain sites. Works fine in Moz FF, thanks to Scripty Goddess for the link.

Edit in 2024: updated links to archive.org links.

Forget the last one I posted, this drop down menu is rather better, but it does require Javascript and not just CSS. Saving that, it’ll still work in non-Javascript/CSS capable browsers because it uses HTML lists to render the menu structure!

Mozilla Firebird has been renamed “firefox”. You can find more about the release on their homepage and Keith has more too.
Unfortunately, the download link is slow to respond but you’ll eventually get through!

Here’s a nice example of a drop down menu using nothing but CSS styling. The author has tested it in several browsers and it works fine in Mozilla Firebird 0.7 here. Lovely!