Browsersphere

This is the first in a series of posts that will provide a laundry list of links to articles and posts around the browsersphere that you’ll hopefully find interesting and/or useful.

• How to keep up to date with the Mozilla development – Henrik Gemal tells us how he stays up-to-date with the latest happenings in Mozilla development.
• Better animations in Firefox 3 – The Mozilla Labs Blog covers some of the advantages of the Animated PNG format over traditional animated GIFs. The format is already supported in Gran Paradiso, the development version of Firefox 3, in case you’re interested in checking it out.
• Dave Winer’s take on feed reading in Firefox – Myk Melez talks about some takeaways from Dave Winer’s visit to Mozilla Headquarters (of which not everyone was impressed) in terms of future support of RSS in Firefox.
• Opera has bigger market share than Firefox in Russia – Opera Watch reports that Opera has surpassed Firefox’s market share in Russia to become the 2nd most popular browser behind Internet Explorer.
• Opera and CSS3 support compared to the other browsers – Opera Watch discusses how implementation of CSS3 support in Opera compares to the implementation in other browsers.
• I don’t think that you understand! – Firefox3 Vulnerable by Design – Planet-Websecurity argues that Mozilla’s attempts to put an end to XSS attacks in Firefox 3 are fruitless and will only “open a can of worms.”

If you spot any other useful or interesting browser-related links around the web, please feel free to send me a link at browsersphere [at] gmail.com.

Tags: Development, Elsewhere, Firefox, Links, Mozilla, Opera, RSS, Security