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I picked up where i left off on the Software Update stuff, but found out that there were still a bunch of spots that were unfinished. It’s a difficult thing to test—you can’t directly initiate all of the possible states of the Update window like you can with a toolbar button. You just [...]

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More On Bug 235277 And The Flex Hack

My patch for Bug 235277 was essentially my “flex hack” that i developed while working on LCD. It uses the -moz-flex style property to force an element to fill the available space in its container, and then flips that object’s orientation in its container using -moz-orient: vertical so that it expands vertically instead of [...]

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Mozilla Bug 235277: RESOLVED, FIXED

It took two years almost to the day, but the small patch i submitted to make the Go button look like the other Firefox toolbarbuttons was checked in a few days ago.

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status 20060212-0521

It turns out that the new Options window was being held up by one line. I had the new preferences.css file in browser/preferences, but the window would be drawn transparent with only the section button/tabs at the top and the OK/Cancel dialog buttons on the bottom. It needed the prefwindow XUL element added [...]

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notes 20060204-1214

The network error pages are naked, as they derive their styles from global/netError.css, which i haven’t set up yet. This brings up a usability sticking point because if i style the page in LCD fashion, it won’t look like the standard error and may confuse people. On the other hand, i like to [...]

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