Sure, Mozilla's cache does a great job of rememebering stuff you've already looked at. But wouldn't it be great if it could be engorging itself on stuff you're going to look at in the future, while you're otherwise occupied?
Is the Internet full of petty thieves and vicious pirates, preying upon the works of innocent authors with impunity? Probably not. But it probably is full of people who don't even know how to properly attribute the material they've quoted from online sources. Lans presents a solution.
Vector graphics are a much cited enhancement to the suite of web authoring technologies on every web designer's wish list. In this article, I explore three of the major contenders on this front and urge interested parties to roll up their sleeves and get working on an implementation.
Applications can benefit from a sense of history. The tactful recollection of previously used settings can make the difference between an application that is a joy to use and one that makes you want to heave your computer out the nearest window. Mozilla is no exception. | |||||||||||||||||
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blue sky
The source is in the hands of the public. The CVS repository is up and running. The question is "what are you going to do about it?" We're trying to collect some of the better answers to that question here in an ever growing repository of good ideas. Some of these ideas came into being as discussions on mozilla-wishlist, others were submitted by thoughtful readers like yourself and the rest have been lurking around the authors' collective subconcious ever since the first time we found ourselves mumbling "if I only had the source." |
The blue sky column is edited by James Hicks, reachable at <bluesky@seawood.org>. Be sure to blame him for all errors, ommisions and rampant poor taste. |
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