I have been testing Firefox 3 for a bit now, and I have found a very pleasant improvement of the Remember Password feature.

In the current Firefox 2.X, the Remember password feature acts as a popup dialog.  The problem with that is that I often doubted to click on ‘Remember’ because I wasn’t sure this was the right User/Password combination for certain sites, so I often clicked on ‘Not Now’ when I thought I might have got that Password wrong.

Now on the Release Candidate, you actually login, and instead of a popup, it actually opens the dialog as a bar right below the tabbing area.

This allows you to wait a little bit and see if the password actually worked.  If you were able to login to the protected area, then you can click on ‘Remember’ from the new dialog.

That is great!

I just installed the new version of WordPress’ Tiger Admin 3.0.

Steve redesigned the interface, and seems to be that the performance increased after upgrading the plugin to the 3.0 version.

As usual, it only works with CSS2-compliant browsers (like Firefox and Safari):

“If the browser is incapable of displaying CSS2, it will not display the updated design.”

It’s awesome!

For the last few years, web designers and developers around the world have been challenged to build Standards Compliant websites, their task has been to create websites that are accessible, aesthetic, quick to load, cross-browser compatible, etc.

Firefox emerged as an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which after 6 years, has been overhauled to get closer to be a Standards Compliant web browser… but you already knew that.

Among all the struggle, I think that one of the biggest challenges is to make a website look the same regardless the browser you use: Firefox, Safari, Camino, Opera, IE… We strive to cater anyone on the internet with a web browser… but, again, you alreay knew that.

For the last few of years I have been learning how to tame a web page with CSS to make sure that all my layout and content look the same on every single browser out there. You probably have been doing the same.

Also, a couple of years ago I bought an Apple iBook because after I tested a site for a client in IE, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape, it was brought to my attention that such website didn’t display correctly in Safari. Then I was able to test my sites with different browsers and different platforms. I figured that if I coded the CSS for Firefox, Safari would normally accept the code the same way, as well as Opera and Netscape, then I had to tweak the CSS (or hack it) for it to work with IE… all the time… I bet you knew this too.

Not long ago, I upgraded my iBook to a more powerful and robust MacBook Pro. Having a Core Duo Intel processor really appealed to me. But I didn’t know that I was going to stumble upon such a problem… No, I am not talking about running PowerPC apps on the Core Duo…

I realized that Firefox, Safari, Camino, and Opera behave differently on a PowerPC Mac and on a Intel Mac. [sigh]

Now, not only we have to deal with IE, but also with crossplatform Macs… I don’t know who’s the one to blame, I know that not always happens, but I know that it sometimes happens and makes me sad to think that Firefox for Windows behaves almost exactly the same way as Firefox on a PowerPC Mac… But here the ones behaving badly are the Core Duo Macs.

If anyone knows about this, it would be great if they let us know what the heck to do with this issue. I have left a post in the Mozilla Support Forums, and another one in the Safari Support Forum, with no answers or replies whatsoever.

So, drop me a line, or post a comment, I am sure people will definitely appreciate it.

As of today, my two sites (webmediamx and blulit) are on hiatus.

My blog (the one you are now visiting) is still up and running.

PS: webmediaMX is now being redirected to Blulit, I am deciding which site will do what. =)

Some time ago I learned that OFFF was happening in Mexico. Being born and raised in Mexico City, it is always interesting and intriguing to hear that web-related events happen there.

I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to attend, I wish I could have, in the end… I am glad I didn’t plan on it.

It upsets me to hear that TV Azteca (the second TV Broadcaster in Mx, after Televisa), doesn’t even have the decency to give reasons about why this got cancelled, or even the creativity to make something up.

It is not Azteca’s little neighborhood event, it is an international event that had drawn the attention of some of the most talented new media designers and developers around the world. Granted, they have enough moolah to make it work, and hadn’t this event been cancelled, maybe I could have respected them for backing such important event… but they didn’t.

Maybe this is the reason why they have always been, second. And they will never be first.