Killer features?
I know its late in the day for feature suggestions. with Mozilla 1.0 just around the corner. but the following are based on my experiences. Here are 3 possible suggestions for 'killer features' that could differentiate Mozilla from the opposition (all email related). 1. Spam avoidance. A tactic often used by spammers is to send HTML emails that include 'web-bugs' - images that are dynamically created and unique to the email. This allows recipient mail address validation and, more importantly, that the email was 'read'. Why not differentiate between controlling image downloads in webpages and in emails, via the privacy security preferences? A more advanced implementation would be possible with a toggle images button next to each viewed message and an rdf based list of 'senders' whose images are trusted. 2. Delete without viewing. I like to keep my inbox 'clean' but I have not found a way of deleting a single message without clicking on it and in doing so viewing it in the preview pane. This previewing then means that the sender of *'see me doing '* knows that my email address is valid and that I read my messages :-( [see suggestion 1 above]. How about changing the right click on a message so that you get the context menu, allowing you to delete the message, without 'reading' the message? 3. Printing scaled images Many people, when they receive an image by email from the owner of a digital camera or find a nice photo on a web page, find that they have no way of printing the image so that it is of a suitable size on the printed page. This would be a nice to have feature that could be very attractive to less technical users who do not have access to graphics packages. Any reactions? Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: Killer features?
dman84 wrote: 1. Spam avoidance. Javascript stuff is turned off by default in mail news.. sounds like quite a project.. What I am talking about is not javascript it is html email that includes lines to the effect : IMG src='http://www.spammer.com/testEmail.cgi?[EMAIL PROTECTED]' As soon as this email is read/previewed 'spammer.com' knows '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is a valid email address and that the recipient reads their emails. 2. Delete without viewing. This was just fixed, it should work as of a new nightly.. Interesting - will give it a try. 3. Printing scaled images I think printing scaling should be working in a new nightly as well. Again - interesting. Is this in MS Windows only? -Dennis -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
is bugzilla.mozilla.org down?
I just tried accessing bugzilla to file a new 0.9.9 bug and the server appears to be down. Can anyone else reach the webserver? Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: Multiple home pages in rotation
Another possible solution that would work in most browsers is to write yourself a little HTML page and save it locally In the page have some javascript that selects the 'home page' you want either randomly or based on the date/time If you wanted to be really fancy you could save the page in the chrome and use a cookie to keep track of the 'homepage' you last visited so that you always get the next page in the sequence Geraint --- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook Visit http://wwwvizimarkscom today
chrome javascript tabs problem
In 0.9.7 in Linux, if you : 1. open a new browser session + type in a URL/select bookmark etc. 2. press ctl-t + type in a URL/select bookmark etc. 3. kill the tab with the 'x' 4. try to open mail from the chrome menu *nothing happens!* This common sequence seems to disrupt the javascript processing in the chrome. I also can't open the javascript console to see if there are any errors. I have checked bugzilla but can't find this bug listed. Before I submit a new bug can someone confirm that this is not a quirk of my set up. thanks Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: chrome javascript tabs problem
Thanks Jonas - bug is filed as bug no. 18357 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118357 Jonas Jørgensen wrote: Geraint Edwards wrote: In 0.9.7 in Linux, if you : Also happens on Win2000. 1. open a new browser session + type in a URL/select bookmark etc. 2. press ctl-t + type in a URL/select bookmark etc. 3. kill the tab with the 'x' Also happens if you close the tab by pressing Ctrl+W 4. try to open mail from the chrome menu Also happens if you try to open mail by pressing Ctrl+2 *nothing happens!* So that's what causes it! I have been wondering why mail seems to be so difficult to open sometimes, but I couldn't find the exact steps to reproduce it... glad you found it! This common sequence seems to disrupt the javascript processing in the chrome. I also can't open the javascript console to see if there are any errors. ChatZilla won't open either. I have checked bugzilla but can't find this bug listed. File it, and post the bug # here, please! -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
0.9.7 - Looking good ...
Just upgraded from 0.9.6 - more than a trivial upgrade in my mind. Very pleased to see: 1. S/MIME support - I see my use of Netscape 4.x finally ending soon :-). I suspect this has been holding many corporate IT departments back. 2. email header viewing 3. Progress on customisation of cookie privacy settings I like: 1. customising javascript settings (e.g. killing pop-ups) 2. favicon stuff (controversial I know but it makes the personal toolbar very pretty). 3. DOM viewer I have some constructive criticisms though: 1. Could javascript controls be implemented more gracefully - e.g. ignored as opposed to an 'uncaught exception' that kills the JS flow. I legitimately use a window.focus in my web service (www.vizimarks.com) and everything dies after this statement if 'window flipping' is disabled. I know I can add a try/catch but this is a standard javascript function so I feel that this should not be necessary. 2. Nice if DOM viewer could work with document in memory and not based on an entered URL (e.g. on a page written by javascript). Keep up the good work Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: Style Sheet (CSS) not loading on *some* servers?
Mike Stockman wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malodushnïkh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is your CSS file being served with the right MIME type? Don't know... the server's operated by Apple, so I can't see its configuration. Is there a way I can see this from the client side? Headers for 'http://homepage.mac.com/mstockman/style.css' are: -- content-type = application/x-pointplus server = Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3 last-modified = Fri, 07 Dec 2001 01:20:38 GMT etag = 2fdf4c-3c6-3c101966 content-length = 966 client-peer = 204.179.120.34:80 connection = close date = Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:08:43 GMT via = 1.1 mac.com (NetCache 4.1R5D3) age = 1640 client-date = Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:40:11 GMT Note that the content-type should be *text/css* - I have no idea what *application/x-pointplus* is! By the way the page works properly in 0.9.6 on Linux. Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
W32/Badtrans@MM virus and Mozilla
Earlier today I received an infected message in 0.9.6 on Linux - not knowing it was infected I 'previewed' the message. I was rather alarmed to see a popup window appear asking me to save a file I wonder what would have happened if I had previewed/read the message on my Windows box with the appropriate mime-type plugin installed. I have decided not to try it, just in case. Is Mozilla at risk to this type of virus? Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: W32/Badtrans@MM virus and Mozilla
I realised that badtrans is a windows virus that needs Outlook to spread itself - what concerns me is this mechanism of delivering the virus payload (Iframes, attachments and doctored mime-types) and whether Mozilla is vulnerable. Mozilla automatically opened a save dialog box when I looked at the message - if I had opened the message in Mozilla on a Windows box with the appropriate mime-type handler set up would there be a risk of getting infected with this type the virus? This particular virus would not have been a problem since it was targetted at Outlook users - its a more general point I am making. Geraint Scott wrote: Geraint Edwards wrote: Earlier today I received an infected message in 0.9.6 on Linux - not knowing it was infected I 'previewed' the message. I was rather alarmed to see a popup window appear asking me to save a file I wonder what would have happened if I had previewed/read the message on my Windows box with the appropriate mime-type plugin installed. I have decided not to try it, just in case. Is Mozilla at risk to this type of virus? Geraint badtrans is a windows virus, it needs things like outlook, and windows registry to infect. -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: Accessing new tabs in javascript
This would probably be the ideal solution - if a user can set a preference for a href=... ...target=_blank to be opened in either a new window or a new tab, based on their personal inclination. Rob Allen wrote: It would also be nice if the pref made 'target=_blank' also open in a new tab as that is used very often by web sites to open a new window. -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: yahoo privacy
Try Edit/Preferences/Privacy Security/Web Passwords/View Stored Passwords/Passwords Never Saved and clear mail.yahoo.com from the list :-) Hilkiah Lavinier wrote: Hi, does anyone know how I can get mozilla to store my login info for mail.yahoo.com I know it can cause the first time I switched from NS4.7x to Mozilla 0.9.x (can't remember the 'x's), it used to do it. However, I've never been able to replicate this. Any ideas? HL -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Print Preview - how do I go back?
Print preview in 0.9.6 is a nice feature - clearly a w.i.p. but a good start :-). I have a question about the functionality. When I have previewed a page - how do I cancel/go back to full web page (without pressing Reload or ctl-r)? As an aside there appear to be a few formatting problems - e.g. 1. Wide Pages overflow off the preview page i.e. they are not cropped or rolled onto another page. 2. Some CSS settings are missed (will do some more investigation). Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: Print Preview - how do I go back?
gavin long wrote: Geraint Edwards wrote: [print preview] 2. Some CSS settings are missed (will do some more investigation). Be aware that CSS may get handled differently depending on the media : it is possible to define a style sheet that will give a completely different appearance on the printed page to that on screen. This is by design. (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html) Whether this is the cause of what you are seeing is a completely different question. I think the problem relates to absolutly positioned elements - try www.copyn.plus.com as an example. There are no media specific rules in operation on this page. Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: CARS.COM - blocking bad browsers
I have no problems accessing the main site using Moz 0.9.5 for Linux (note that I have not got Java installed). They are using Java for an interactive map as part of the results when you do a search. Since DHTML would really struggle to offer similar functionality I think this is fair enough. Have you tried enabling Java? Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: useragent.override and MSN.com
Nigel L wrote: Nigel L says: I just added exactly what GE suggests, and I still get the lock-out message. I did this in Linux - remember to make sure you make the change with Mozilla closed down. I have not tried it in MS windows or MacOS. My reason for trying it was to see if MS was using anything proprietary (e.g. their version of XML binding) - it appears not. Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
MSN backtracks?
I just tried Mozilla 0.9.5 (with default useragent) and the site is accessible again though with some formating problems in evidence. Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: MSN backtracks?
If anyone is curious - the formating problem appears to be the result of the absence of a DOCTYPE tag. Saving the file locally and adding a standard 4.0 Transitional tag makes the page nicely formatted. Geraint Edwards wrote: I just tried Mozilla 0.9.5 (with default useragent) and the site is accessible again though with some formating problems in evidence. Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: MSN backtracks?
I just tried again and it now looks fine in Linux (build 200101202) as per your screenshot. I suspect its a work in progress on Microsoft's behalf. The rendering problem I saw (did not get screenshot I'm afraid) was the central table (within a DIV) overlapping the right hand set of links. As an aside, I do find with Mozilla that some more complex web pages do not render correctly the first time they are loaded. My own company website (www.vizimarks.com) has a table that, with very slow internet connections occasionally does not render properly unless you do a reload. Its almost as if the proportional table sizes are determined before some of the required size information is available and the rendering engine doesn't check again once it has all the required information. ctrl-r or pressing reload always fixes the problem. Unfortunately I can't isolate the problem well enough to file a bug report since it is erratic and appears very dependent on the connection speed. Geraint R.K.Aa. wrote: I can't see any formatting problems on a current cvs build, Linux. Screenshot at http://home.c2i.net/dark/msn.jpg (185k) K. -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
useragent.override and MSN.com
I just tried adding user_pref(general.useragent.override,Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)); to my prefs.js file and the accessed msn.com A quick glance suggests some minor formatting problems (e.g. blank space in middle of front page and some sloppy link hover effects. Otherwise it seems fine to me. Note that the Javascript console shows no errors! Geraint -- Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Favorites, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today.
Re: Mozilla advocacy site?
Gervase Markham wrote: I would be very interested to see a showing off section on www.mozilla.org. If you are looking for an advocacy site, then you need look no further than www.mozillazine.org, who are always happy to hear from new contributors. Gerv I'm glad you think a showcase/showing off section of www.mozilla.org is a good idea. What is the best way to take this forward? Should I drop you a line with my thoughts about how such a site/section could be organised or is this newsgroup the best forum? Given that Netscape is now making an earnest push at getting 4.x users to adopt 6.1, I would expect it to be in their interest also, to see the development of such a showcase. Geraint - Vizimarks - the Internet Scrapbook! Visual Bookmarks, Online Bookmarks, and an Online Scrapbook. Visit http://www.vizimarks.com today. Vizimarks requires Mozilla 0.9.2+, Netscape 6.1+ or MSIE 5+.
Mozilla advocacy site?
We recently launched our DHTML web service (www.vizimarks.com) which
allows users to create an online scrapbook including visual and online
bookmarks as well as web cuttings.
Almost without exception the visitors to date have been using MSIE
(apart from a few using Netscape 4.x). We went to a great deal of
effort to ensure that the service supported Mozilla/Netscape6 as well as
MSIE, including innumerable workarounds for Moz/NN6 idiosyncracies {and
plenty of MSIE's own I should add;-)}.
I have been looking, to no avail, for a website which showcases the best
examples of web-sites/web-services that take advantage of the
capabilities of Moz/NN6. I couldn't even find an active DMOZ category!
Does such an advocacy site exist? If not I may have a go at creating
one myself.
Geraint
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