If you came around recently, you probably noticed some changes in the look and in the amount of information on the home page. It is now globally in its final state.

A very few changes have also been made in the XHTML structure, these changes involving grouping the blog entries and the "as seen elsewhere" briefs in a "blog" div, moving around the date and the subject of blog entries, and replace links on briefs titles by a "Read more..." link.

As for the content, the home page must avoid to be heavy, so I removed a lot of stuff, put only one blog entry (and cut it if it's too long), 3 briefs and drastically reduced the amount of Releases, Articles, and ToDo List items.

The CSS, on the other hand, got a lot of changes, starting with a split of the stylesheet in several files. Some other changes involve bigger default font sizes, and a proper styling of most of the html elements in the page (much more were left with default style, previously). <teasing>I'm working on a better visual experience (which will probably render pretty bad in MSIE), all of which will happen without touching a single line of HTML code. I'm myself impressed by the result ;)</teasing>

The XSL stylesheets also got its load of refactoring, by splitting in smaller individual units, and its improvements such as adding ids in the blog so that the links to the blog entries on the home page go directly to the right item. Next step there will be to improve the RDF parsing.

Next global step for the site will be to have more subsections and pages. Stay tuned.

This is it. Now the main page is generated by treating 5 different RDF files through one XSL stylesheet. The power of XML to serve !

Next step will be to stop generating one flat page for everything and begin to split the whole in categorised parts, and actually make the navigation menu worth something, while improving the visual.

Stay tuned.

Well, you should switch to Firefox, then, even Microsoft tells you so.

Yesterday was held the Firefox 1.0 Party in Nagoya. Well, it was a small committee (4 people including me), but was an interesting japanese pratice, and a great korean food experience (at BSD dubu house, Ikeshita, Nagoya - nothing to do with BSD).

Interestingly, the Mozilla Store people, who are very "aware", while most of the celebrations all around the world were due to be held on this week-end, sent a mail to party organisers about the special launch party kits and the fact they could receive them in 2-3 days in the U.S. and 7-9 days elsewhere... on November 15th. Quite hard to get them in time, then.

OSGILIATH (Reuters) - Mordor Corp. warned Middle Earth kingdoms on Thursday they could face the wrath of Orc armies for harbouring and aiding Gandalf and his fellowship of hobbits instead of rightfully bowing to the will of Sauron. [...]

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Today, mozilla-firefox 1.0 finally migrated to testing, pushing the old 0.9.3-5 version onto the verge of oblivion. Thanks to Eric, JoshK and the RMs.

Today is also my release of version 1.0-2pre3.1, second preview release of upcoming 1.0-3 (which might just be this one). Help yourself. Changes include:

• an even more robust Extensions Manager,
• usage of firefox's internal locale auto-detection (making it also work with user installed languages packs),
• some cosmetic fixes,
• support for Internet search services in user profiles,
• protection of users who run firefox through sudo without -H option,
• and more...

Sorry, not sorry, not sorry either, obviously not sorry ; all this is becoming ridiculous.

Here we have the basics of the new design. Except adding some ids to the XHTML code, everything has been done without touching it. That's the power of CSS.

There are a lot of improvements to do, like avoiding overflow on the right, adjusting fonts, colors, add some graphics, but it's still better than the raw thing that used to be here until now.

I'm also working on the backend side, all in RDF. For now, it has some semantic flows, and I still haven't written all the XSLT stylesheets to transform it into XHTML, but that might come soon.

And if I find enough motivation, I'll publish some documentation about how all that has been made and works.

XP boots in an amount of time significantly lower. BeOS booted in a few seconds. What the hell is making Linux distros boot time so loooong ?

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As you may or may not know, the current trademark policy of the Mozilla Foundation makes it impossible for Debian to distribute the official logos and icons for Firefox. The package shouldn't even be called Firefox, reading this piece of blatant crap.

Anyways, as an individual, I took the right to provide these logos and icons, and create a package that will override the ones installed by the mozilla-firefox package.

The package is called mozilla-firefox-branding, is a pretty bad hack, and is available in my repository. Enjoy.

Update [2004-11-14 16:55:54+0900]: Updated to version 0.2, there was a broken thing in release 0.1.