Vista-style tweaks for Firefox

Last time, I used to play a lot with the Firefox interface. The following web pages can prove it: Rounded Address Bar Firefox 1.1 Options on Firefox 1.0 Neat Trick css help Those days were great. It reminds me how I use to apply some ...

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Unable to reboot

As I've blogged last month, I mention that university life will consume a lot of my time. My blogging frequency has reduced to around two entries per month. Sigh. Last week, I had three examination papers. Logic Circuit Design, Computer ...

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Commenting system in weblogs

A weblog is called a weblog if it contains these basic features: Content, either syndicated or from your brain Permanent hyperlinks, often abbreviated as permalink Daily, monthly, yearly, and/or categorical archives RSS and/or Atom subscription feeds Commenting system Without them, the overall blogging experience is not ...

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Whitespace and generated content

CSS is fun and I'm still learning it because in my opinion, it's a never-ending process. Like web pages, CSS is a growing entity. There are always more things to learn and understand. This time, I focus on CSS whitespace ...

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More random things

Sigh. Too many things run around my head lately. I got to defragment my brain some day. Here goes: Ever since my site goes live on CSS Reboot, my site traffic boosted threefold. It's great, really. I've received compliments from various ...

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Random things

Things that annoy me: Whenever I visit WordPress-powered weblogs and also some other sites, I always notice some bunch of feeds listed from the Live Bookmarks button on the statusbar. In my opinion, providing visitors with such choices of feeds is ...

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Rebooted into greenery

Green, green, green. Such a nice colour, isn't it? For your information, today is the day that brings together web designers from all over the world to reboot their sites, launching their redesigns collectively. Of course, I'm not going to miss ...

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First steps in theme design

I remember before I started making themes for Phoenix, I don't know anything at all about icons design and theme design. At that time, I have never even created a theme or skin for any software before. But somehow I ...

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Web standards breakage

Hear, hear. Code for standards, don't code for browsers. Site developers, web authors, repeat that mantra every day please? Indeed. I read Tristan Nitot's article and Eric Meyer's comments. It's a good read, focusing on issues of web standards support and web ...

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The inverted Firefox experiment

Would anyone like to conduct an experiment? A very simple experiment? I once watched a documentary on how wonderful the human brain is. Our grey matter has the ability to learn new things, remember a lot of data, control our ...

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Read, find, express, fix

PHP is a nice scripting language to learn. I'm still a beginner, so I read articles and tutorials which are made specifically for beginners. I found one such article written by Daryl L. L. Houston from Digital Web Magazine. I ...

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Smart icon sizing

I've spent the last few days updating the Phoenity theme for Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR. Again, I found few more interface glitches during the process. I also had some problems here and there, as I struggle to cope with the ...

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'Address' label for address bar

Last two weeks, David Tenser quoted: The Address bar should have a label, like in IE. It's not completely obvious now what the text field is for, and it's not easy to tell the difference between the two (address and search), ...

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Firefox Dust 2

Last month, I wrote about some dusts I found in Firefox. I supposed it's a good read for most Firefox users. However, it is only the scratch of the surface. You might see this as a form of criticism, but ...

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Scrollbar tweaks

Do you notice anything weird in the screenshot? Take a look at it carefully. It's neither the themes list nor the buttons. No, it's not a trick image or whatever. It's the scrollbar. I've customised my Firefox with Mac-alike scrollbars, by adding ...

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Firefox Dust

I've quietly released Phoenity 1.2 for Firefox yesterday night. It's a huge update with lots of fixes and changes, especially the bug fix with Googlebar extension. The updating process has taken me weeks, because I need to examine every single ...

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