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Firebug make huge improvements

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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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The Firebug team have released Firebug 1.5, with many bug fixes and new great features below:-

  • Mike Radcliffe’s Inspector. Firebug's key feature, now solid as a rock,
  • Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko’s expanded and refined the Net panel, with more accurate timings,
  • Steve Roussey’s reworking of HTML editing and entity support,
  • Kevin Decker’s CSS and Style side panel improvements,
  • Support for dynamic, graphical breakpoints throughout Firebug.
  • It works with the soon-to-be-released Firefox 3.6

Most importantly, it is released before Firefox 3.6. The biggest problem is upgrading Firefox and finding Firebug no longer works.

How to get Flash working within the Safari Browser on the iPhone

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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Tobias Schneider has built an open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript and HTML5, quite impressive. Hosted on GitHub for everyone to download and use.

Works well in the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (and, yes, iPhone Safari). Very useful for desktop users as well, if the user doesn't have Flash installed you can call Gordon to run the Flash files instead (great for users who do not have privileges to install Flash on their computer).

Quick and Easy Installation Instructions

  1. Download Gordon
  2. Insert a script tag in the head of your HTML file to the Gordon javascript file 
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../gordon.js"></script>
  3. Insert a div or span tag where you would like the Flash file to appear within the body of your HTML file 
     
<div id="stage"></div>
 
  4. Add a JavaScript onload event to insert the flash file within your div or span 
    <body onload="new Gordon.Movie('flash-file.swf',
{id: 'stage', width: 500, height: 400})">
  5. Enjoy !

Come chat to me!

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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I've just installed Meebo and from my first impression is really excellent, not only can you bundle up a fair few chat applications into one, there are other chat methods including website chat applications.

Meebo Supported Chat Applications
Supported Chat Applications on Meebo, if only they supported Skype as well.

I've inserted the chat application into the sidebar of this blog, so scroll down a bit and you'll find the chat application. Don't hesitate to say hi!

Meebo on the phone
Meebo on mobile phones

Creating new tabs from a Firefox Extension

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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
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Something that has been driving me crazy lately, is trying to get a Firefox Extension to open up new tabs in the Firefox browser. However mine goes a bit more trickier and involves getting links in an iframe to open up new tabs.

Incase you're wondering about how to do it straight from the Firefox Extension (not through a link in an iframe), the following JavaScript should help you out.

function newTab( url ) {
var browser = top.document.getElementById("content");
var newtab = browser.addTab(decodeURIComponent(url));
browser.selectedTab = newtab;
}

If anyone figures out how to catch links within an iframe, please let me be the first to know.

Solution is provided in the comments below.