Author Archives: mkaply

Firefox Affiliate Branding

One of the conversations I had quite a bit at the Firefox Summit was around affiliate branding and my belief that Mozilla should be doing more to allow for custom versions of Firefox for a particular brand. Brand Thunder, a … Continue reading

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Enterprise Firefox Requirements

I was going through some old documents from the office and found the result of a brainstorming session around Enterprise Firefox requirements. I wanted to capture this list somewhere and figured this was the best place. Note that some of … Continue reading

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A Self Cleaning Inbox

Maybe someone has already thought of this, but it was new to me… I was talking with Myk Melez at the Mozilla Summit and as he described for me how he manages his mail, I realized that one of the … Continue reading

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Time for Something Different (Well Not That Different)

The month of June has some particular milestones in my IBM career. June 29, 1989 was my first day as a co-op. June 7, 1993 was my first day as a full-time employee. And just about every promotion I’ve ever … Continue reading

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Activities Review on a Japanese Website

Hey look – a review of IE8 Activities for Firefox I can’t read. Oh wait. I can use Activities to translate it. Sweet.

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Semantic Web Austin

GeekAustin hosted the Semantic Web Austin launch party last night. I was a speaker and got a chance to talk about Operator, Activities and the Microformats support in Firefox 3. I also took the opportunity to hand out some Firefox … Continue reading

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Customizing Firefox with the CCK Wizard

New version with fix for search engines not working. FYI, I’m making a beta of the CCK Wizard available today for Firefox 3. If you are deploying Firefox in your enterprise, educational institution, or even your household, you’ll want to … Continue reading

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Article on the Firefox 3 Microformats API

Rob Crowther has an article on IBM developerworks about the new Microformats API in Firefox 3. Thanks to microformatique for finding it.

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The Browser With No Name

(Post updated to remove money reference. I was simply referring to the fact that Mozilla and Firefox have equity in their brand and most brands require royalty payments with the use of their branding. Also, to be clear, this post … Continue reading

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Updating OpenService for Microformats

This post details the ongoing work that Gustavo Garcia and I have been doing at http://microformats.org/wiki/OpenService_Extensions. Our stated goal is to figure out the best way to extend Microsoft’s OpenService specification to allow for microformat support (and possibly other functionality). … Continue reading

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