Technical Jiggery PokeryKevin Gerich's web logBrief History of Mozilla on the Macintosh- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Mike Pinkerton does a great job of summing up the history of Mozilla, Chimera, and Camino on MacOS. His post describes the various Mac project codenames and answers some questions that I see from time to time like "Why doesn't Mozilla run on OS 9"....http://kmgerich.com/archive/000080.html Thunderbird's Extreme Mac-over- (Found July 8, 2008 ) After the Pinstripe theme landed in Firebird, icon designer Stephen Horlander and I dove in to a companion Thunderbird theme. We started in early November 2003 and finally hit the "let's stop fiddling with it and get it out there" phase in March of 2004. I've gone through the messages that Stephen and I exchanged during that time and pulled out a few examples of design decisions....http://kmgerich.com/archive/000081.html Firefox Preferences Rejiggery- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Ben's been working on making the Firefox preferences window more Mac-like and I slapped on a skin last night. Here's a peek. The content fades in and the window slides open as you click from pane to pane. Someone tell me where I can get the Goats font....http://kmgerich.com/archive/000083.html Pretty Widgets, Part 3- (Found July 8, 2008 ) This is a third try at making Mac Firefox's primitive-looking HTML widgets work with the design of Pinstripe. This time I took care to make the styles play well with others. For instance these styles won't override CSS set by a web page in most cases....http://kmgerich.com/archive/000084.html Firefox 1.0 Preview Release- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Mozilla Firefox One Dot Oh Preview Release is available! Live Bookmarks is one of the handful of new features in this release which focuses on stability and security. The Mac version also has an updated visual style. Grab it, try it, and tell us what we're doing wrong (and right)!...http://kmgerich.com/archive/000070.html |