Category Archives: Web

This is a sample chapter from the new web design book “Don’t Make Me Think”. – “How we really use the Web”.
People scan pages, not read.. good reading.

These forums are full of useful information about Mozilla Firebird. Here’s info about a tab extension. I don’t think it lets you move the location of tabs around, sorry Tim!
Here’s my pet peevs about Moz Firebird:

1. Tabs open at the end of the tab list. I like when they open next to the open tab.
2. When you drag a link to the “Personal Toolbar”, there’s no indication you can drop it there (no arrow, indented button space..)
3. I don’t like the image resizing, but that can be disabled.
4. No “Exit with Session” or even session support!
5. No “Up” button to go up a directory/filename.

Still, I think it’ll replace Galeon as my primary browser now that I have nice fonts again 🙂

I’ve used Mozilla Firebird all day today. The fonts do suck, but there’s an xft build out there that I’ll try tonight on Red Hat 9. The xft build doesn’t work on Red Hat 7.2 however.
The browser is quick and light. It’s even lighter and more responsive than Galeon although that could be explained by the fact that this machine has a lot more RAM than my desktop machine.

A new release of Mozilla Firebird is out.
I tried it. It’s nice, but I prefer Galeon. The fonts don’t look quite as nice (probably need to have the browser compiled specifically for gtk2/xft), and I’ve never liked the tab system Mozilla uses. Galeon does them nicer IMO.

Russell listed several css designs and css information pages this morning. This page encouraged me to resize my fonts here a bit. I modified the font family, and took them down 10% in size, which should please IE users somewhat. It still looks fine in Galeon and looks better in Mozilla now that I fixed the font-family. What do you think? Are the fonts still too large?

Are you tired of redoing the images for your graphical navigation links. Writing your buttons using CSS and HTML is much easier to do, and maintain.
I knew I saw this on a weblog yesterday but couldn’t remember what site it was. Thanks Feedster for finding it for me!

This app looks really useful for the laying out websites. May try it later.. (via Wired)

Prompted by Simon’s posting last night I tried the nightly build of Phoenix. It’s nice, very nice in fact. It feels a lot more responsive than Mozilla or Galeon, but in the latter case, that could be because I have a dozen tabs open..
Fonts don’t look as nice, but maybe there’s ways to force it to use the nice new sans fonts Galeon’s been using on my machine? I don’t know, and haven’t got time this morning to check. Worth a look at though!

Simon wanted a bookmarklet to examine the css style sheet of any particular html element on a page. Sil created a beautiful bookmarklet that displays the style properties of your page as you move the mouse over them! Wow! Tres nice!
Unfortunately another bookmarklet didn’t work worked strangely in Galeon 1.2.9 (and Moz 1.3). I had to open an close the Javascript console to get it to work I think.

Oooh! Lovely! This article goes into detail on the features Mozilla has for debugging your html/css/javascript. Includes lots of screenshots and worth a read!