Some good news for Perl6, the Mozilla foundation is offering a grant for a full time developer on the Perl 6 compiler.¹ The grant is a great example of the good that can be done with Mozilla’s windfall.²

1. Absurdly large set of operators and implicit variables here we come! ↩
2. Well, other than potentially making Firefox and Thunderbird better ↩

The Mozilla2 platform aims for mobile market. It’s about bloody time. It looks like webkit has already schooled Gecko in the embedded space, so the Mozilla team has some catchup to do.

The prototype.js library adds some more depth, adding a cleaner, richer way to work with objects in Javascript. The more I use Javascript, the more I like it.

I embedded the Mozilla JavaScript interpreter some years ago, and I remember fighting with porting the implementation (fixing several bugs on Alpha/Tru63). I also remember the pain caused by the lack of standard libraries, and the void of debugging tools. Things have changed. Today there are libraries like Prototype.js and tools like Firebug.

I love the concept of del.icio.us, but because it’s separate from the browser it’s a pain to use. Enter the del.icio.us Firefox plugin, which replaces Firefox’s weak bookmark tool with taglicious zen. Most excellent.

A possible approach for browser history in Firefox, from the mind of a Firefox developer.

A lengthy rant about how XUL Templates are a Waste of Time (via marc). I found the same things the last time I looked at it: it’s no better far worse than XHTML/CSS + PHP|Perl|Ruby.

HOWTO make preformated text wrap in CSS3, Mozilla, Opera and IE.

A summary of the Debian frustrations with Firefox/Mozilla. Most of the changes sound good, and the non-freeness of the logo is silly.

RDF, Mozilla, and Complexity, a discussion about the possible removal of RDF from the Mozilla suite. The problem is that the replacement looks worse, though not all of the commenters agree. Maybe they should drop the framework altogether, and just build a damned good browser.

Nifty corners (now version 3), implementing rounded-corner div magic (by inserting elements into the DOM). Works in IE 5.5 (and better), Opera, Safari, and Firefox/Mozilla browsers. Here’s an example of what the library can do.