I’m in the process of porting Modify Headers to Flock and Seamonkey. If anyone is interested in beta testing these versions prior to release, please mail me at modifyheaders-owner _at_ mozdev.org.
The Flock version is ready to go, but the Seamonkey version is going to take some more work.
My wife made a comment this morning that I should update my website as it had been a while since anything changed. I couldn’t remember when I last posted, so I had a look… 18th February! I can’t believe it, six months has past and I haven’t written one post. I will offer no excuses, as there are none that can justify such a long period of inactivity.
However, so much has happened in that six months. The biggest event is that Susanna and I have moved to Seattle in Washington State, USA. (For those of you that don’t know us, we used to live in London, UK.) The reason: I’ve moved over with my company. I’m still doing the same job as a Consultant to the mobile content world, but now I’m doing it in America.
We are both so excited to be here. It’s been a beautiful summer (which isn’t over yet) and we have found a lovely place to live with a fantastic lake view. We are really happy to be here and would like to thank everyone who have helped us in our first couple of months.
Yesterday I went looking for recommended Thunderbird extensions and found an article, published Wednesday at Newsforge, about Must-have Firefox and Thunderbird extensions. To my surprise, on page 2 under Web developer tools, was listed Modify Headers.
It’s great to know your work is appreciated.
A new version of the XHTML Mobile Profile (0.3.5) has been released. This adds support for when the xhtml namespace is not provided in the root html node of the page source. Please download from Mozilla Update.
If you find any issues or have any suggestions, please submit them to bugzilla.
One of my spare time projects is developing and maintaining a Mozilla Firefox extension, XHTML Mobile Profile. The extension is available for download at Mozilla Update. Recently, there have been some comments that have been fairly critical of the extension and its capabilities, so I feel the need to clarify a few things:
1. application/xhtml+xml is supported by Firefox natively.
But being the standards compliant beast that Firefox is, the rendering only occurs if the correct namespace is added to the root html tag.
For a simple demonstration (requires Mozilla Firefox), compare this page (source) with this one (source). The first shows the content unformatted, but the second page is rendered by Firefox as it has been told the namespace of the document.
2. WML support is available using the WML Browser.
There is no need for the XHTML Mobile Profile extension to support WML as this is already provided by the WML Browser.
3. XHTML Mobile Profile supports only application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml
Given 1 and 2 above, this is the only content type that required support as the others for mobile content are already covered. I must admit that I need to provide more detail on the Mozilla Update site that sets peoples expectations.
I’ll work on that next.