Mozilla

FOSDEM 2009 is over. Once again, there was a lot of great stuff happening. I managed to leave the Mozilla Room once or twice to see other sessions. The Mozilla Room sessions were very good and not just because I was in two of them. There were so many people trying to get into the Mozilla Room, we had to stop people from coming in.

DOM Inspector is a great tool for debugging XUL, HTML and CSS. DOM Inspector 2.0.3 now supports Fennec (1.0a1 - current). To install in Fennec:

I’ll be making my second trip to Brussels to take part in FOSDEM. I had a lot of fun last year and I’m looking forward to another great conference this year. I have two sessions in the Mozilla developer room this year:

No, I’m not dishing dirt on Stuart. I started to put together some Fennec front-end documentation. Fennec is similar to Firefox, but very different at the same time. Some background information and discussion of the internals is probably a good thing.

Talos is the Mozilla performance testing system. Talos runs in conjunction with our continuous build system (Tinderbox). After every build completes, it is sent off to Talos for performance testing. Mobile has continuous builds for Maemo and Windows Mobile (not sure what’s up with mobile-wince-arm-dep-191). Recently, Talos was setup for the Maemo builds. We are collecting data for a few metrics. Tp3 (pageload time) is notably missing. Aki has it working on the staging server, so it should be available soon.

WordPress has had a Turbo feature for a while now. The feature uses Google Gears to store many of the Admin Dashboard resources (images, CSS, etc.) locally on the client machine. This improves overall performance and responsiveness of WordPress.

Nino D’Aversa, a student at Seneca College, has been working on some Fennec Windows Mobile features. His latest blog post shows the progress he has made on Bug 465664, adding tel: link support. That’s right, click a tel: link and the dialer opens to make the call.