Oct 25, 2006 News Wire

Mozilla Firefox 2

Firefox 2.0 was launched today, featuring a refined user experience and a great many new developer features.

(tags: firefox software opensource)
From Redmond With Love

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sends Mozilla a cake in congratulations for the release of Firefox 2.0 today.

(tags: firefox ie)
Web design is 95% typography

A nice primer on typography as it applies to the web, with links to some meaty resources on the subject. (thanks gnarly)

(tags: design)
CSSVista: Live CSS editing with Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously

Neat tool that lets you view your site simultaneously in Firefox and Internet Explorer as you tweak the CSS code in real time. Windows only, obviously. (thanks lox)

(tags: software css ie firefox)
Fedora Core 6

Although the site is down due to the surge of traffic, Fedora Core 6 was released today and most of the mirrors and BitTorrent trackers remain online.

(tags: opensource software linux)
Flash Conceptions and Misconceptions

If you haven’t looked at Flash in awhile, this run-down of common misconceptions is a good start in getting a better picture of the state of Flash (and Flex) development today.

(tags: flash flex)
ColdFusion 8 Image Support

Word comes out of Adobe’s MAX conference that ColdFusion 8 (currently still in alpha stage development) will have support for dynamic generation and manipulation of images. This has been a longstanding hole in ColdFusion’s feature set.

(tags: coldfusion)
Adobe Max 2006::Day 1 - Followup Notes

Some notes from Day 1 of Adobe's MAX 2006 conference. In particular, there are some interesting details here about Apollo, Adobe's under-development platform for building web-enabled desktop applications with HTML, JavaScript/ActionScript, and Flash.

(tags: flash flex)

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hannson Says:
October 26th, 2006 at 3:09 am

Firefox2.0 is now official (get it at mozilla.com). And IE sent the development team a cake to say well done. Awwwww…isn’t that sweet. I wonder if it’s full of bugs?…

LOL
malikyte Says:
October 26th, 2006 at 5:29 am

CSSVista has some known bugs, be careful…the only poor one I’m aware of is using it when the CSS file is in the same directory as the file you’re viewing (locally) - it will (can?) delete the original and only work from the one in-progress. So, just make sure you place your css files in a separate directory first (which you should do for organization anyway, imho).

CSSVista 1.5 will be coming out “soon”. Check out the creator’s blog for further/future info: http://www.mattbrindley.com

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