More from Hixie on how different browsers handle the DOM "Who would have thought that you would find Heisenberg-like quantum effects in an HTML parser. I mean, I knew they were obscure, but this is just taking the biscuit. The problem is I now have to determine which of these four options to make the other three browsers implement (that is, which do I put in the spec). What do you think is the most likely to be accepted by the others? As a reminder, the options are incestual elements that can be their own uncles, elements who have secret lives in the rendering engine, elements that change their mind about who their parents are half-way through their childhood, and quantum elements whose parents change depending on whether you observe their birth or not." -- Hixie

Useful live DOM display, and some intriguing examples of what some browsers do

Transferring Firefox (et al.) settings to a new account / computer

Re: the Netcraft toolbar, tangentially. "Every piece of software on his computer was updated, his system was totally clean, and get this, he was learning how to use the software himself and becoming a knowledgable computer user because he could be safely productive on his machine."

Matthew Thomas' analysis of the current text encoding GUI in Mozilla/Firefox

Tried Lynx and w3m, but neither worked spectacularly; redirect is semi-broken Steve, how about a regular standard 302 redirect on the toplevel entry page? And/or a body for those browsers which cannot do the nonstandard http-equiv refresh thing. But even then, I wasn't able to log in to the site with Lynx. I guess I have somehow failed to make it send back persistent cookies. Probably a problem on my end. Just surfing the site with Lynx is fine, provided you don't find the "recent tags" listing at the top of each page too obtrusive. (How about moving it towards the end of the source. I imagine you could even do that without wrecking the layout much.) w3m actually works rather well, once you realize the "redirection loop detected" you get when you log in is spurious, and you are in fact logged in. For the record, I also tried Emacs w3 and w3m-el but neither would get very far. With w3, I was just reminded of why I stopped using it a long time ago -- rendering is slow as molasses, and basically uninterruptible. I ended up killing my whole Emacs. :-( Given that w3m basically works, I'm a bit surprised that w3m-el didn't. Perhaps I should look more into this. Adding some structure to the page would help make it easier to navigate in a text-only browser. Could the listing of entries be a real list, not just a bunch of <div>s, so that you'd perhaps get hanging indents for each new entry, and what not?

Edit and validate HTML and CSS of a page on the fly

Archives old versions of www browsers

The Web Standards Project wants you to switch from Internet Explorer Nothing you don't already know here, but useful as a pointer for newbies.

Yet another password hash generator for Firefox (or at least a proposal) See also http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/7856