Archive for the ‘firefox’ Category
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been rediscovering the joy of Greasemonkey scripts lately. For those who don’t know, Greasemonkey is one of the best extensions for Firefox ever made (the other being Zemanta of course:) that allows you to run JavaScripts on specified pages. This doesn’t really mean much to the non-technical crowd, but to us geeks this means you can do almost whatever you want with the page. As I make more and more of these I decided to share them here.
For my Slovenian readers
- Finance unfixed is a script that will unfix the header of finance.si. This means the header will scroll and you’ll get more space to read the article.
- RTVSlo OI is a script that will remove the header from the OI page on rtvslo.si again leaving you with more real estate for reading.
- Delo is a script that will help your eyes when reading delo.si news site since it’s small default line-height might make them hurt.
Developers
- JSLint highlighter will help you read the JSLint results. If you write JavaScript and don’t know what JSLint is you should go check!
How to work it
Well first you have to have Greasemonkey installed. After that installing a user script should be as simple as a click of a link. When a script activates you’ll see a little green box that will say ‘Greased’ in the top right corner. Clicking it will toggle the script – either it’s on and active (green) or off and the page looks as it would in the first place (red). You can also toggle the script with alt+g.
Posted in browsers, css, design, firefox, greasemonkey, interface, javascript, layout, software, technology, typography | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
@tadej told me a few days ago at the Firefox 3 launch party that he had issues with the way caching is handled in Firefox 3. I didn’t have such issues myself but it reminded me that I didn’t change the caching behavior when I installed it. So yesterday I opened the preferences and found the caching options under Advanced / Network. I was not really surprised that the options for how the cache works were missing — you really don’t want your everyday Joe to change this stuff since it may affect the perceived speed of the browser.
Since this was probably just left out of the interface I opened about:config and filtered with cache which gave me a few entries. The most interesting one was browser.cache.check_doc_frequency. Unfortunately it has a numeric value with a hidden meaning. And I had no idea what that meaning is.
I googled the thing and found a mozillaZine article about it. It explains how it works — the property defines how often the browser checks for a new version of a specific file. The possible values are as follows:
- 0
- once per session
- 1
- everytime
- 2
- never
- 3
- when out of date (default)
The default is 3 which is not very good for development purposes when you want changes to take effect immediately. What you want is 1 which means that every request will go to the server every time. You’ll get many 304s but you’ll also get a 200 as soon as a file changes on the server. So I changed the value to 1 and now I’m a happy developer.
Posted in browsers, design, events, firefox, firefox3releaseparty, interface, software | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
So I’ll be talking at Firefox 3 Release Event at Kiberpipa today. Feel free to come listen to the talks or just come to the party. If you can’t come you can watch the whole thing online (the link is likely to be available somewhere on the event page).
Posted in browsers, css, design, events, firefox, firefox3releaseparty, general, html, javascript, microformats, services, software, standards, technology, whatwg | No Comments »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Zemanta, a Slovenian start-up that got into seedcamp, moved to London for a few months and came back a few months ago launched their service at Spletne urice yesterday. The service that bares the name of the company helps you enrich the blog posts you’re writing. What you need to do is download their browser extension (only Firefox currently supported) and a box will appear in your favorite blogging tool (WordPress, Blogger, Typepad currently supported) that makes adding relevant images, links and related articles to the post a one-click operation.
I like the technology and I think it will make the life of an ordinary blogger a whole lot easier. What I don’t like that much is the HTML they produce in the blogposts. I understand the dilemmas they have with all the themes and platforms they need to support but adding that much style attributes is really not nice.
Disclaimer: I’ve cleaned up the HTML in this post, to see the output check the demo.
Posted in blurps, browsers, companies, css, design, events, firefox, html, interface, software, spletne urice, standards, technology, zemanta | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
There’s a paragraph in the CSS specification regarding the background property that states the following:
For HTML documents, however, we recommend that authors specify the background for the BODY element rather than the HTML element. User agents should observe the following precedence rules to fill in the background: if the value of the ‘background’ property for the HTML element is different from ‘transparent’ then use it, else use the value of the ‘background’ property for the BODY element. If the resulting value is ‘transparent’, the rendering is undefined.
This might lead to a surprise when trying to add a background on top of what you have on the body element – when you add a background property to the HTML element everything will shift. You can observe this in most browsers on the links below.
Before:
html {}
body {background:#fcc;}
After:
html {background:#ccf;}
body {background:#fcc;}
It seems you really have to add a semantically meaningless element…
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Adactio is calling you an adversary, but I always thought of you as a friend. It’s been some time since we last met, I know work with your cousin and am flirting with a Norwegian girl that’s gotten a promising makeover. You’ll be remembered…
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Image via Wikipedia I’ve been rediscovering the joy of Greasemonkey scripts lately. For those who don’t know, Greasemonkey is one of the best extensions for Firefox ever made (the other being Zemanta of course:) that allows you to run JavaScripts on specified pages. This doesn’t really mean much to the non-technical crowd, but to us geeks this means you can do almost whatever you want with the page. As I make more and more of these I decided to share them here.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_c.png?x-id=55ad7c1c-ac13-4b05-a456-b330738d63cd)
