noel alanguilan

flash stores its own version of cookies in your computer. they are formally called local shared objects — linux planet just calls them flash cookies. unlike ordinary cookies, these things are binary files not readable by plain-text editors and, as you guessed, not readily accessed or removed also. you have to go to the adobe site and use their online flash settings manager to edit or delete these cookies.

my bookmarks are a mess. at some point years ago i tried organizing them neatly into folders and subfolders and subfolders but given some time and a couple of hundred web pages later my bookmarks have transformed into an even bigger organized mess. its like leaving cheese in the fridge for five and a half months — it evolves and takes on a life of its own. time to reorganize again.

sort of.

version 3.0.x of firefox added tags to their bookmarks which i started playing with for a couple of hours now. its really not new — del.icio.us has been at it for some time now but in this version the tags and the bookmarks are in your computer not on the internet. what i like about tags is that you are able to use your own words to associate with the bookmarks that you save. in a sense, its not really sorting things in an ordered — ascending/decending/numbered/alphabetical — manner but organizing things so that my brain (what’s left of it) can easily access it via word association.

now the problem that i face is to add tags to the hundreds of bookmarks that i already have. that will take some time, i’m sure, but there is a way to add a tag or two to several bookmarks at once. tagging for multiple bookmarks is an add-on to firefox which performs exactly this. a word of warning though, as of this writing, the add-on is still marked as experimental so it may be buggy. so far it hasn’t given me any problems.

links:
Mozilla’s bookmark tags
tagging for multiple bookmarks

at least with the linux version, it is. as of this writing the version for windows is not yet available but i would assume it will be soon… mozilla.com is even asking for help in setting the guiness book of records for the most software downloads in 24 hours.

as for the software itself, the good news is that it really uses lesser memory than version 2 and it even feels faster.

there are some small features that seems insignificant but turns out to be a time saver. one of them would be the smart bookmarks. i especially liked the fact that i can type the first few letters of the title of a page, instead of the web page address,  in the address bar and the browser will search the history for it and give you suggestions. nice.

its only been a few days but i’m liking my fox even more. its definitely worth the download.

web standards project press release:

The Acid3 Test is designed to test specifications for Web 2.0, and exposes potential flaws in implementations of the public ECMAScript 262 and W3C Document Object Model 2 standards. Collectively known as DOM Scripting, it is these technologies that enable advanced page interactivity and power many advanced web applications such as web-based email and online office applications.

in other words, its a test to check if the browser you’re using follows web standards — how it presents the web page to you. ideally, a standards-compliant web page would look the same when rendered on different standards-compliant browsers. but we all know that is not always the case.

if you want to test your browser for yourself, the links are below along with the reference rendering (how the page should look like). acid 3 is for the newer standards and most current browsers would fail. acid 2 is for the most used standards today.

acid 3 test | acid 3 reference
acid 2 test | acid 2 reference

so why is this important? for me, its an indicator on how much i should trust the browser i’m using.

my apologies to microsoft but i just found it funny.

internet explorer 8 — the next iteration of ms’ browser — has three rendering modes which means it can show you a page in three different ways.

wow. a schizoid browser. finally.

as far as i am concerned there’s only a single standard for html/css and there should be one way of rendering or showing an html page on your screen. isn’t that the point of web standards?

listen guys. you don’t own the web. you may own an intranet or two but you don’t own the web. please stop acting like you do.