Pretty Widgets
Inspired by Jon’s attempt to make Mac Firefox HTML form widgets a little easier on the eyes, I’ve taken a shot at making a set of widget styles that blends with Mac Firefox. It has focus rings too!...
View ArticleFirefox 1.0 Preview Release
Mozilla Firefox One Dot Oh Preview Release is available! Live Bookmarks is one of the handful of new features in this release which focuses on stability and security. The Mac version also has an...
View ArticlePretty Widgets, Part 2
Here’s a followup on my attempt to make the HTML widgets on Mac Firefox presentable. I’ve had to make some compromises here to get the widgets to look nice, for instance I force the background-color...
View Article“Live Bookmarks” is not RSS
A few days ago we changed Firefox’s Live Bookmarks status icon to something less geeky. As people rightly pointed out, Live Bookmarks shouldn’t pretend to be RSS. The status bar icon should not...
View ArticleFind Bar Feng Shui
I have always thought the UI for Firefox’s Find Toolbar has room for improvement. Recently the Match Case checkbox was added to the bar, increasing the amount of horizontal space it requires. This...
View ArticleFirefox 1.0almost
Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate 1 is out. There isn’t anything flashy to talk about in this version except hundreds of bug fixes. Version 1.0 for Windows and Linux is scheduled for release on November 9....
View Articleabout:Aquafication
A little over a week ago, Ben informed me of the decision to push back the Mac-specific Firefox work to a 1.1 release that would come out in March 2005. Firefox 1.0 was going to be released on Windows...
View ArticleFirefox 1.0: The Beginning
Even though I’ve been working closely with Firefox and Thunderbird for over a year now, I’m amazed at the attention it’s receiving. Not actually surprised though. I’ve always thought of Mozilla as...
View ArticleFirefox Preferences Rejiggery
Ben’s been working on making the Firefox preferences window more Mac-like and I slapped on a skin last night. Here’s a peek. The content fades in and the window slides open as you click from pane to...
View ArticlePretty Widgets, Part 3
This is a third try at making Mac Firefox’s primitive-looking HTML widgets work with the design of Pinstripe. This time I took care to make the styles play well with others. For instance these styles...
View ArticleMac-like Form Controls for Firefox
The Mac-like form controls seen in Safari and Camino look nice, but tend to ignore CSS styling. I wanted to see if I could bring more flexible form widget styles to Firefox, while staying close to a...
View ArticleWeb feed icon trademark, licensing and usage guidelines
I am encouraged to read Mitchell Baker’s posts (part 1, part 2) about the usage of Stephen Horlander’s web feed icon which is seen in Firefox, IE7 and on an increasing number of web pages. She suggests...
View ArticleFirefox browser UI artwork released
Designer Stephen Horlander and I are pleased to announce the availability of the toolbar and UI artwork seen in Firefox on Windows and Mac OS X. Winstripe has been the default theme on the Windows...
View ArticleFirefox 1.x Classic themes available
The Firefox 1.x classic default themes, called Pinstripe on Mac and Winstripe on Windows, are available for your installing and downloading pleasure. These are simply stand-alone versions of the...
View ArticlePinstripe for Firefox: Now with 20% more Macintosh
This update to the stand-alone Pinstripe theme turned out to be more of a redesign than I originally intended. Stephen Horlander sent in a cool concept for the browser tabs. Check out the etched text...
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