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20080816 Saturday August 16, 2008

links for 2008-08-16

  • ISO's Day of Shame
    Does the fact this doesn't surprise me in the slightest make me jaded and cynical?
  • Perspectives : Firefox Extension
    This looks like a very smart solution to the self-signed certificate problem for web browsers. It is a much better compromise than the mess Mozilla has made in Firefox 3 and leads to fewer false alerts. As a consequence it is much less likely to desensitise users so that real security issues get ignored. I hope something like this becomes the default in Firefox.
  • Sun open-sources mobile Java UI toolkit
    The gradual process of getting all of the Java platform open source gradually moves on.
  • "Security is good, right?"
    Why context is everything.
  • JavaScript standards wrangle swings Microsoft's way
    I don't think we'd expect anything else from ECMA, would we?
  • Posted manually today, delicious has sadly been broken all week & Yahoo don't support this feature. Anyone suggest an alternative solution that doesn't involve control of a server?
Posted by webmink ( Aug 16 2008, 12:27:12 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]
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Hello Simon,

Following your short notice on Perspectives, I've tried to install the extension and faced a failure (in my native langage; don't be upset, Firefox by default will not speak French p-)) :

« Perspectives » n'a pas pu être installé car celui-ci n'est pas compatible avec votre type de version de Firefox (SunOS_x86-sunc). Veuillez contacter l'auteur de l'extension à propos de ce problème".

Perspectives cannot be installed because the extension is not compatible with your Firefox version (SunOS_x86-sunc -> the version shipped with svn_95). Please contact the author of the extension ...

Posted by herrib on August 17, 2008 at 03:21 AM PDT #

I ported and built Perspectives for FF3.0.1 on OpenSolaris. See my blog entry for details:
http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/perspectives-firefox3-extension-for-opensolaris/

Posted by Moinak Ghosh on August 17, 2008 at 10:18 AM PDT #

I've successfully installed the extension which has just been ported by Moinak Ghosh.

Thank you!

Posted by herrib on August 17, 2008 at 11:01 AM PDT #

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