Design with Discipline
I was looking for a[n] RSS feed for the latest release/builds of Firefox, Gecko and Thunderbird. I remember subscribing on one feed but it had lots of other Firefox advocacy related stuff that I didn't want to recieve with the feed and I couldn't find it anymore. I ended up finding something else.
Here's a short FAQ for frustrated web designers with problems on cross-browser compatibility for Firefox; link. Ang-Ang and Karlo, this is for you. Way back when I was coding HTML and JavaScript in high school, I disciplined myself to make every page readable and functional on IE5 and Netscape 4. I had to do this to the pixel. I guess I only had discipline for coding. Haha.
I like the way Firefox emphasized on the standards and discouraging malpractice of the tags and their attributes. For example, the alt
in <img>
where proprietary browsers decided to use it for tooltips. Way back in the Lynx days, it really stood [and still stands] for alternative text for browsers that couldn't display images. No matter how you'd try to scramble the letters of alt
, it wouldn't go anywhere near tooltip. It sucks that they had to tolerate the iframe
tag but its elements are not accessible via Javascript.
I didn't notice that Mozilla really runs a tight ship with development. The deer park versions are quite disappointing though. Here's the guideline to getting your code included.
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