Archive for May, 2006

Pretty good Google result

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Step 1: Notice how my website renders poorly in Opera.
Step 2: Look at the CSS, take a guess at what’s screwing it up.
Step 3: Search for “opera overflow-x”
Step 4: Find this page, with people discussing how my website renders poorly in Opera

Code reviews

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work on the DOM Inspector, mostly improving the UI and making things work as I would expect them to work. I’m grateful for the domi peers who review patches fairly quickly. I still feel the review system is mostly broken – why should I have to pester people [...]

Walkthrough and install counts

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Two of the major problems that I feel userstyles.org has are:
a) It’s not obvious what exactly user styles are and what someone’s supposed to do with them. For those familiar with userContent/Chrome.css or Greasemonkey, it’s a simple concept. For those familiar with stylesheets in general, it’s a small leap. But for those non-technical people, it [...]

Bigger screenshots

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Because 300px wasn’t enough for some, screenshots can now be 600px wide if only one screenshot is used. If you use two screenshots, they are still limited to 300px wide.

Adventures in development – Web standards and Firefox extensions