MozMill 1.1 UI Overview

During the Open Design session at Mozilla with Aza we were informed that we could load a HTML file with a Chrome URL, allowing me to rebuild the MozMill UI a bit more like a web page instead of using the XUL constructs that I had been struggling with. Granted it feels a lot more [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 at 6:31 pm by adam · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Micro-Bookmarking with MyTabs

A few weeks ago I realized that every time I boot my laptop, one of the first things I do is to open Firefox, and immediately load about 7 web sites as tabs. Some of them requiring user interaction to navigate to the desired state. I didn’t realize that this was actually a phenomenon called [...]

Posted on February 23, 2009 at 9:18 pm by adam · Permalink · 2 Comments
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XUSH (.01), you know it’s fun to say.

Over the past 8 months I have been neck deep in XUL and XPCOM and with Venkman being as unintuitive as it is I have badly needed a shell with access to the trusted space in the browser. I also had a couple more requirements, which were that it was super easy to get at [...]

Posted on January 28, 2009 at 6:57 pm by adam · Permalink · 10 Comments
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Windmill Gets a Facelift for 1.0Beta1

Working up to the Windmill 1.0 Beta 1 Release, I finally had the opportunity to put some time into making the IDE (that a lot of you live in when in test writing mode) a little bit nicer to look at. The IDE has been growing organically since 0.1 and there was a lot of [...]

Posted on November 19, 2008 at 8:11 am by adam · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Mozilla Summit

I am currently up here in Whistler BC for the Mozilla Summit. There is about 400 people here staying at the Westin Resort & Spa up here in scenic Canada.  The schedule for the con can be found here; http://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2008/Sessions/Schedule I do have to say that Mozilla is doing a great job at taking care of [...]

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