February 20th, 2004
Henrik Gemal has written up a clever tutorial on how to backup IMAP mail using Mozilla Thunderbird. Follow that up with the corresponding tutorial on restoring IMAP emails.
Now those of you who’re still using POP3 to get your email no longer can say “IMAP sucks because it doesn’t allow me save my emails and I have to delete them otherwise my inbox will be full”.
In related news, Omar Shahine, who co-designed Microsoft Entourage, says in his blog entry on IMAP, Thunderbird, and mail clients that:
Thunderbird is an almost perfect IMAP client for Windows. If you use IMAP, this is the product for you.
February 20th, 2004
Take a look at this example page I set up in IE/Win or Opera, and then in a Gecko-based browser.
Notice that the positions of the list images in IE/Win and Opera are misaligned - they’re not in line with the text, but seem to be vertical-aligned to the top. After a bit of hair-pulling, I figured out that is because I applied “line-height:180%;”. Setting the line-height back to 100% for the <ul> works, but then I had to resort to adding margins to the <li> elements to simulate a line-height so that it’ll be consistent throughout the document.
Does anybody have an explanation why IE and Opera does it this way while Gecko browsers render it the other, seemingly correct, way?
February 17th, 2004
Mozilla Europe, a non-profit organization that was recently founded by several European Netscapees and Mozilla contributors, has just launched its website. Read the press release.
Some would say the website design has a certain Communist theme to it - I wonder if it’s not because of the judicious use of red and stars. Very nice, nonetheless. My only complaint would be the accessibility links which appear when you roll over them. Somewhere below the navigation bar, there are 3 links: “skip to Navigation”, “skip to Search” and “switch language”, which are hidden by applying a white color to the text, but become black when hovered. Confusing to a normal user to say the least. At least it confused me a bit when for a moment I thought the site just managed to produce a Peek-a-boo IE6 bug. But of course not, this is Gecko we’re talking about ;). Back on topic, I don’t see the point of providing accessibility links in this manner since it appears for users who don’t need them when they least expect it. Try Mark Pilgrim’s advice. Not to take anything away from the designer(s) though - they have done an excellent job.
Update: The designer of the Mozilla Europe website, Sam Latchman, has made clear several things in his comment. Most importantly, “display:none” does not pass muster on many screen readers as proven on css-discuss.
February 16th, 2004
I seem to have picked up a handful of Google-related bookmarks. I think I have way too many at the moment so it is as opportune a time as any to start making link dumps.
- Hidden Google Tools writes on several tools you probably never knew existed. Some of these are listed below.
- Soople provides a form-based front end to many of Google’s more advanced operators. Nothing to it really - just a simple form submission to Google with the appropriate query string. But convenient nonetheless.
- Fagan Finder is quite like Soople, though it has an IE-only version which I didn’t bother to check.
- Google WebQuotes is a beta application from Google Labs which “offers a convenient way to get a third party’s opinion about each of the returns for your search, providing you with more information about that site’s credibility and reputation”.
- Google Guide is an interactive tutorial on how to use Google more effectively.
- Google has a help page on Advanced Search Operators. Nice to keep it handy.
- Google offers special searches within specific topics, including searches for Universities and other institutes of education with university searches.
Now that’s 7 less bookmarks which makes it, erm, 1196 - 7 = 1189 more bookmarks to go through.
February 14th, 2004
Update: I notice lots of people coming in to this page from Google searching for “windows source code”. Whoops, sorry, but this isn’t the place to get the actual source or any real news on it. Do stay and look around if you’re interested though :)
Blogzilla takes a look at some Windows source code derived from “unnamed sources”.
We here at redemption in a blog were also provided with some choice bits of the source code via unnamed sources:
if( application.language == JAVA ) {
set_speed_step_factor( 0.50 ); // decrement clock speed to 50%
set_crash_probabilty( 0.80 );
if( application.toolkit == SWING ) {
render_speed( UNBEARINGLY_SLOW );
start_idle_task(); // start an invisible process to consume CPU cycles
disable_hardware_acceleration();
}
}
In other news, Dilbork, everyone’s favorite geek comic, has a strip on Mozilla.
Backing up your IMAP email in Mozilla Thunderbird
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