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I linked to John Resig’s post on what he loves about Firebug and what’s next for the tool earlier this month. John Resig works on/created JQuery and is an active developer at Mozilla.

So it’s fitting that today he announced the creation of the Firebug Working Group to consolidate development on the tool, and that he’d be spending 50% of his Mozilla time on Firebug.

This is great news, as John is very clearly brilliant and has some great ideas for the future of the tool.

[via Ajaxian]

Tagged with: firebug, firefox, john resig, jquery, mozilla

Posted in: Tech News

Internet Explorer 7 represented a step forward for “mainstream” browsing. Microsoft worked to fix a lot of the epic fails in CSS implementation that IE 6 had brought upon itself and those around it. There are a few departures from the standards and further from how Firefox handles things, but they’re farther and fewer in between and don’t impact us *too* much on a day-to-day.

Still, instead of developing for Firefox and Internet Explorer, we’re developing for FF, IE6 *and* IE7. Cheers. Add to the fact that IE6 has some serious flaws including its lack of transparent PNG support without getting all hacky, different JavaScript implementations and limitations on what you can do with AJAX calls, et cetera, and it becomes a significant burden to develop for. It doesn’t help that you can only have one version of IE installed on a Windows-machine, or the other, without, again, getting terribly hacky. Just watch your workflow take a hit there.

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Tagged with: 37signals, firefox, ie6, ie7, internet explorer, microsoft, mozilla, web standards, wordpress

Posted in: Design, Development

The development for open source software is strong and growing. Open source software is software in which the source code is publicly available for examination or contribution. If you talk to a typical person or business, you’ll usually find that their computers are all running Windows and have Microsoft Office installed. Some may even have more expensive software installed like the Adobe Creative Suite applications. By buying and using such high-priced software, it is easy to shell out two or three times as much money on software than on the computer itself. With many capable alternatives, there is a lot of money to be saved by utilizing free and open source software.

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Tagged with: eclipse, extension, firefox, gmail, google, mozilla, open source, projects, software

Posted in: Cool Stuff, How To