Category Archives: HTML &c

Mozilla has released security updates to Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 that include defenses for an old, little-known, but serious security hole: cross-site data theft using CSS. These defenses have a small but significant chance of breaking websites that rely on … Continue reading →

I got some great responses to my ideas for SSL errors and I thought I’d make a new post to talk about them, since that post is old enough that you can’t comment on it anymore. I should probably emphasize … Continue reading →

The Mozilla Corporation’s new(ish) office in downtown Mountain View has all its third-floor conference rooms named after Internet memes, except those that are named after rooms aboard the starship Enterprise. I’d like to share them with you now. Small conference … Continue reading →

Right now, when you visit a website that uses encryption in Firefox and there’s anything at all wrong with the encrypted connection, you get this screen: This is a big block of jargon which doesn’t do anything to tell the … Continue reading →

A Russian translation of this article can be read at higher.com.ua. The CSS 3 Backgrounds and Borders module introduces the border-radius property, which allows you to make the border of any CSS box be a rounded rectangle. Mozilla’s Gecko-based browsers … Continue reading →

There’s been a long discussion on one of the Mozilla mailing lists about how we can do a better job categorizing and triaging incoming bugs. This is my contribution, which I felt deserved a somewhat broader audience.