Redesigning the Button of Doom
Slashdot has a link to an interesting article about an effort to design a smarter “temporal” Back button for browsers. This paper describes the experiment in detail, complete with pictures of a prototype “enhanced” Back button. According to the paper’s conclusion, the reimagined button is not less confusing than current implementations and it doesn’t [...]
I’m a moron
I’ve been building a new computer over the past few days. I had read Asa Dotzler’s experiences with Red Hat Linux 8.0 and I was looking forward to trying it out myself.
After a little over a year using Mac OS X, my life has been relatively free of compiling drivers and kernels and [...]
Diddling with icons
This is a preview of an icon set I’m working on for Chimera. I may expand it into a Mozilla skin at some point.
Problem with phoenix-bin
Can anyone shed some light on why Phoenix on the Mac compiles just fine but gives a segmentation fault when I try to run the phoenix-bin file? I used the mozilla-bin file from a previous build of Mozilla in place of the bad phoenix-bin and to my surprise it seems to work. This probably causes [...]