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by mbrubeck 14y ago
To be fair, Wikipedia already uses a "W" as its favicon in every locale (even for languages with non-Latin scripts, like Japanese and Arabic): http://ja.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico http://ar.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Proposed Wikipedia logo: http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/img/4.png Actual WordPress logo: http://s.wordpress.org/about/images/logos/wordpress-logo-sta... (It's not just that both are W's -- they also chose a typeface with a similar di
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The Firefox column is based on Firefox 12. The current version (Firefox 14) adds support for the FullScreen API, and Firefox 15 beta has support for remote debugging. getUserMedia is also coming soon. (Disclosure: I'm a mobile Firefox dev
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Mozilla networking dev Patrick McManus: The Road to HTTP/2(bitsup.blogspot.de)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I think tdavis is referring to this example from maciej's post, where inserting 'y' into a tinyint field silently converts it to 0 instead of throwing an error: mysql> create table demo(int tinyint(1), bin binary(1)); mysql&
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NPAPI plug-ins in Windows 8 Metro mode(blog.chromium.org)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
For the past year, Mozilla has never mentioned version numbers in the official announcements of new Firefox releases. For example, the Firefox 14 announcement: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/07/17/new-security-and-de...
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I loved the official announcement of Chrome 20: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/06/yet-another-chrome-releas...
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yes, Firefox has SPDY enabled by default starting with 13.0: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0/releasenotes/
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Chuck Close stifles a creative programmer's homage... but only for 100 years(techdirt.com)
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Thanks! It looks like it worked. I had even tried contacting @zillow on Twitter, but I hadn't quite reached the point of emailing random engineers. :)
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Computers, Education, and Comparative Advantage(econlog.econlib.org)
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When we actually do this, it does not necessarily convince publishers to fix things. For example: for several months Mozilla has been testing one tiny reduction to the User-Agent string in Firefox Nightly builds (replacing "Gecko/20100
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Part of their algorithm finds areas of the image that are close matches but have different sizes, and uses the larger areas to create high-resolution replacements for the matching smaller areas. Of course this produces especially good-look
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
BrowserID lets you use any number of email addresses and choose which one to use for a given site (though I think the current UI might get a bit cumbersome if you have dozens attached to one Persona account).
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
BrowserID is designed to be integrated into the browser. There are some huge usability benefits possible when your browser can log in for you. If the browser UI succeeds in reducing friction for signup and login, that could motivate sites
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
> because Macs were never released with sequential numbers like the iPhone. Except, you know, the Macintosh II... Or the Mac LC (followed by the Mac LC II and then the Mac LC III)... Or the original Power Macintosh models (like the 61
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Note that the email was intended as an internal (and confidential) heads-up to Mozilla contributors, not as a press release. And I'm not sure how "ongoing security and stability maintenance" is harder to understand than "maintenance mode."
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
That's pretty much what the original announcement did say, if you go beyond the headlines and read the announcement itself: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird...
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Back-pedal on what? Both the original leaked email and the official blog post said that Mozilla would "adapt the Thunderbird release and governance model in a way that allows both ongoing security and stability maintenance..." It was TechC
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
That's exactly what Firefox developers like Henri Sivonen [1] and David Baron [2] think, and their proposals have a lot of support within Mozilla and a high chance of being adopted. It would be great to get other vendors on board too. [1]
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yay! You are unbanned now. The spam filtering algorithms are not open source, but I believe they are a bit trigger-happy when it comes to brand new accounts that post a lot of comments at once. My uninformed guess is that you were caught
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No, that's not "it" for Thunderbird...(mikeconley.ca)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Hey pg (or other moderators), it would be nice if you could unban jono_x who is the author of this post and signed up to respond to comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jono_x (For now, you can read them if you set "showdead" in
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I tried to explain that above. Opera's revenue, and therefore their development and marketing and sales strategy, is primarily in the mobile market, where it has been "picked up" quite successfully. They haven't focused as much on competi
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yup. According to Statcounter data from last month, Opera accounts for about 2% of desktop page views and 21% of mobile page views worldwide.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not. Opera has been around for over fifteen years -- longer than Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. It's been around as long as Internet Explorer. But their main revenue source is mobile, where they have been t
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yes, there are plans (though not without some controversy) to include H.264 and MP3 decoding at least in B2G (Firefox OS), and possibly on other platforms where they are available from the OS: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.pl
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
To anyone who finds this platform compelling and wants to help it to succeed: You can help by writing cross-browser mobile web apps, or by making sure your existing web sites and apps work well in Firefox as well as other browsers. Right n
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How patent protection for antibiotics creates incentives to render them useless(techdirt.com)
66 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|18 comments

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