Best Website Footer Ever. just scroll to the bottom of the page. via lukas.

gliider: plan funner trips.. firefox plugin for trip planning. seems like a pretty good idea.

browserwars.png. an interesting data visualization.

Surfin’ Safari » Web Inspector Redesign. this is an awesome update. small ease-of-use things that drove me crazy with this, as compared to firebug, are now fixed.

Cruz – A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard. from the guy who did fluid. basically just gives you a pluggable safari.

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.