Mozilla have announced the first developer milestone of Firefox 3.6 is now available to download for developer testing. Code named Namoroka, it is built on a pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform and introduces several new features, most noticeably speed improvements to TraceMonkey and more support for CSS3. You can download Namoroka using the […]
Bing to power Yahoo
Microsoft and Yahoo yesterday announced a 10 year partnership to help each other on the web. Microsoft will help Yahoo by providing Bing to power Yahoo! Search and a return in revenue generated through Yahoo’s many portals, in return Yahoo will become the “worldwide exclusive relationship sales force” for both companies helping Microsoft with its […]
Firefox 4.0 mockups
Just a few days after showing us what Firefox 3.7 may have in store visual-wise, Mozilla have released some windows theme mock-ups of what version 4 of the open-source browser might look like. Personally I would go for version B, mainly as it ties the location bar into a tab rather than just sitting on […]
XSS vulnerability in WordPress
just a quick note to anyone that uses wordpress on their website, developers have found a XSS vulnerability that could allow people to redirect you from your blog admin. Comment author URLs were not being fully sanitized before they were displayed. This bug has been fixed in version 2.8.2 so best to upgrade as soon […]
saving data with localStorage
I read an interesting article on hacks.mozilla.org the other day that I thought a few people may be interested in. Its about a new DOM function, part of the Web Storage specification, that allows you to store data on a users local system. Its written by Jeff Balogh, part of the Mozilla web development team […]