Archive for November, 2005

Mozilla 1.5 has better accessibility

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Taken Straight from the Release Notes:
FireFox 1.5 has better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
This is a good worthwhile development.

concern fast 2005

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

In case you haven’t noticed the posters at most bus stops, there is a fast tomorrow in aid of raising funds for Concern which I am participating in.
If you want to sponsor me, you can either do so online (search by my ken /at/ guest.ie email address) or just get in contact with me.

Filter cookies with the ‘View Cookies’ plugin for Firefox

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Back in 2002, I filed a feature request for Mozilla/Firefox to see which cookies are used for the current URL that you are viewing in the browser.

I got an update about this request this morning:
The feature hasn’t been implemented as a core part of Firefox but there is a plugin called ‘View cookies’ that does this by adding a tab in the Page Info window.

This is very good news – I now don’t have to spend so much time scrolling though cookies for every site under the sun when debugging websites.
Many thanks to Ian Macfarlane for adding this info to the bugzilla entry.

WWF Passport – Environmental activism online

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

A while back I signed up on the passport.panda.org which is a website of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF International) organisation.

If you sign up you can “travel” around the world and participate in nature preserving campaigns – you then have a chance to add your voice to campaigns for the environment, no matter where you are in the world, all over the world.