Firebug :: Firefox Add-ons. old versions of firebug don’t work properly in firefox3. go get the 1.2 beta.

Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3. i’m going to wait for a prod release to try out firefox 3.

SimpleBits ~ Safari 3.1 Develop Menu. i was just about to write everything that i just read in this post. i know have even less reasons to fire up firefox though firebug is still better than the safari console.

SafariStand. plugin that does smart keyword searches, auto-search as you type, and opens new window links in a tab. very nice. i’m totally sold on safari over firefox now. it’s so much faster.

Google Search with cmd-K in Safari. this is the keyboard shortcut in firefox for searching. so much better than option-cmd-f.

IE and italics problem

Seems Internet Explorer 6 is just out to screw me whenever possible. I just realized that all the posts I did recently which included album covers weren’t aligning properly IE6. So I assumed the images where the problem and after a horrible amount of edit-and-check cycles I realized that the problem was actually related to the italic text in the paragraphs. IE, for some stupid reason, won’t overflow italicized text properly so the width of the containing “p” or “div” is too wide. Luckily a quick search on google turned up a great summary of the IE and italics problem. I tried using the fix they suggested but I couldn’t get it to work. So what did I do? I turned off italics for “em” tags within IE6 or below (using this conditional comment trick) . So, if you like italics you should use firefox (or safari) or upgrade to IE7.

Kavin wrote a greasemonkey script that checks to see if you can get an item cheaper off amazon.com versus amazon.ca/de/uk/jp. and i think it uses real-time forex rates.

ie6 float left margin problem

If you’re one of the idiots still using ie6, for the love of god, please use a different web browser. I don’t care what, IE7, Firefox, Safari, Opera, lynx. Just make it anything else. I just spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out why something was so messed up in IE6. Turns out I came across the “IE6 double margin” bug. In short, if you have some css like this:

div#example {
    float:left;
    margin-left:100px;
}

IE6 will make the left margin about 200px, NOT 100px. So how do you fix it? Add “display:inline;” and, magically, IE6 decides that you want a 100px margin and not some random arbitrary number that you never wrote. And, yes, this works properly in IE7, Safari, and Firefox.

Wesabe blog » Browser Snapshot saves me $29. cool little feature in wesabe’s firefox plugin (which I started using last month).

FirePHP - Firefox Extension for PHP Development. firebug extension which lets you get debug information from a php web-app. cool idea. now where’s the rails equivalent?

Firebug Tutorial - Logging, Profiling and CommandLine. advanced features for heavy javascript dev.

Email This! Bookmarklet Extension :: Firefox Add-ons. works with gmail. creates an email with the title being the site you’re on, body includes a link and anything you’ve highlighted. awesome.

YSlow for Firebug. tool for profiling your javascript and page render/load times.

Making the web into a banking platform (whether they like it or not). wesabe has introduced a pretty cool firefox plugin which lets you automate your bank statement downloads and upload them to wesabe.

How to cahnge how much memory Firefox uses. couple interesting options you can play around with.

Joyeur: Joyent Slingshot. joyent is developing a system for rails-based thick clients somewhat like adobe’s apollo project or the proposed firefox3. one odd thing from the screencast, it looked like you could look at all the code from the downloaded app.

Firefoxy - Firefox fancy widget applicator. replaces the ugly default buttons and checkboxes in firefox for MacOS. The version for firefox 1.5 works on version 2.0. this is a must install.

igvita.com » Ruby Screen-Scraper in 60 Seconds. use firebug and ruby’s hpricot to build screenscrapers for websites very quickly. via paul.

dragdropupload | Firefox Add-ons. drag files into upload fields on webpages. genius idea. via josh.

another new look

So it seems the last time I updated the look of awardtour was 13 months ago when I put forth the first “green” theme. Yesterday I finally put up an update that I’ve been tinkering with for months. I realize it doesn’t look that different but for me it looks plenty different. I had the majority of this theme done a month or two ago but just couldn’t get the text to look the way I wanted on the dark green sidebar and so I put it aside.

Then, last week, I saw some blog that used Helvetica Neue as it’s main font and I thought it looked so damn nice. Large bold Helvetica Neue looks so damn nice on the Mac and looks pretty nice on Windows. I was done the changes on sunday but was informed Auriol that it didn’t look right in IE6 (though Boris informed me it everything lined up in IE7). It took me an hour or two of going through of going through a diff of my old css file against the new one until I found the culprit (the modified search bar). I still had to do a stupid css hack to make the sidebar line up properly in both browsers.

I also removed the upcoming section from the sidebar because (a) I don’t go to a lot of concerts anymore and (b) the sidebar is kinda long. I’m also hoping to clean up the archives and, after unsuccesfully trying to search for something on my blog, I’m pretty much convinced that I’m going to redirect search to google.

So, what do you think?