Firefox 1.0 and Site Updates
10 Nov 2004 11:09 AM
After two years worth of hard work by a great team of people, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 is finally out! A huge congratulations to everyone involved in the project. Your effort is appreciated more than you’ll ever know. Firefox is available for all major platforms and you won’t miss out on features just because you don’t run the latest OS and service pack. If you’ve been waiting for an official release before trying it or recommending it to friends, then stop waiting! Get Firefox now!
In other news, I’ve made a few changes to the site:
- Now (mostly) serving real XHTML to browsers that tell me they can handle it and tag soup to others.
- Started converting pages to utf-8 for some Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn goodness.
- Default layout style is now liquid (just because).
- Experimental comment validation based on Simon Willison’s Safe HTML Checker and Ben de Groot’s WordPress comment validation plugin, mixed in with my own custom php and JavaScript.
Let’s see how long it takes before Phono Phunk explodes in a ball of flames…
- Posted by John Serris in Web
1. 10 Nov 2004, 04:00 PM | Rob Mientjes said…
May I give it a shot? ;)
All good news, man. Let me know if the comment validator works well enough.
2. 10 Nov 2004, 04:16 PM | John Serris said…
If anyone wants to try and break the comment validation go ahead. I’ve tried to throw a few spanners in the works and it seems to handle it ok. Haven’t tested too much though because I’m flooded with work right now.
3. 10 Nov 2004, 11:05 PM | Nick said…
I love the liquid layout! Of course stupid old IE doesn’t get the min-width and max-width, which works brilliantly here (in FF). People who still use IE punish themselves by not being able to see great websites the way they should be. Oh well.
4. 11 Nov 2004, 12:12 AM | Anne said…
Your site already looked great! Now it is great :-)
5. 11 Nov 2004, 01:01 AM | Rob Mientjes said…
Okay, vulnerability: my ampersands in the name, email and web site fields weren’t encoded. So that gives an XML error.
6. 11 Nov 2004, 08:19 AM | John Serris said…
Anne: Thanks man… If you weren’t so anal about xhtml and utf-8 I probably would never have converted ;)
Rob: oops yeah… I’ll just do a quick htmlspecialchars on those for now. Should be good enough
7. 11 Nov 2004, 09:32 PM | Chris Hester said…
This site looks freaking awesome. I still need to side-link it, or do a post with a screenshot.
8. 16 Nov 2004, 03:43 AM | Indranil said…
How could I have forgotten to get you in my blogroll?
Wish you Best of luck for the efforts.
9. 16 Nov 2004, 03:47 AM | Indranil said…
Let me try to break it.I holp;e &something won't work.
how about & or >
Pretty basic, huh!?
p align="forgot.
That was it, to which the validator said,
Nice.
10. 01 Dec 2004, 08:11 PM | Jacob Rask said…
Just gorgeous. And since I don’t like liquid layouts, it’s great with the style switcher :o) I think I sat for one minute straight just looking at the sidebar..
11. 20 Dec 2004, 07:51 AM | Mathias Bynens said…
I didn’t think this site could get any better, but dude! This is da shit.