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2010 Goals: Data Discussion - Today!

As part of the ongoing discussion about Mozilla’s proposed 2010 goals, Mitchell Baker will be hosting a public discussion about the privacy and data goals today, Tuesday October 28, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time. This discussion will be broadcast on Air Mozilla, and we’ll use the #2010goals IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org for asking questions. For more information, please see Mitchell’s blog post.

Camino 2.0 alpha 1 now available

Samuel Sidler writes, “After months of hard work following the release of Camino 1.6, the Camino Project is proud to announce the first preview release of Camino 2. Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 contains several notable improvements, including tab overview, full content zoom, better support for Full Keyboard Access in the browser window, and a ‘Recently Closed Pages’ menu. Camino 2.0 Alpha 1 also has all of the improvements in version 1.9.0 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, leading to better performance with popular plug-ins and enhanced support for web standards. For more information and to download, please visit our preview site.”

Thoughts on Mozilla’s 2010 mobile goals

Jay Sullivan has written an extensive blog post exploring his thinking about the possible 2010 goals Mozilla should have for its mobile work. “[T]he Web enables innovation and choice like no other platform, and for us to continue to act on our mission, we need to bring the capability for Web developers to build great software to mobile devices. To do this in a way that’s relevant, we need to address the needs of application developers and make the Web the best mobile platform that we can. A comparison with native capabilities is a good way to measure how we’re doing along that path. I hope that envisioning the Web as a mobile platform with this level of richness coming out of 2010 helps to drive a set of goals that we can rally around, and that we can make measureable in some way.” To read the full post and join in the discussion, head over to Jay’s weblog.

Firefox Themes: Alex Faaborg on Firefox toolbar UI

Alex writes, “When we were receiving feedback during the development of the Windows themes for Firefox 3, one question tended to come up a lot: Why are there three distinct visual styles of controls in the main toolbar?” Alex’s blog post explores the reasoning behind the Firefox 3 toolbar’s visual hierarchy, discussing why controls that are differently weighted are more useful and effective than equally weighted controls. It’s a fascinating post that delves into the depths behind some of the UI team’s decisions about Firefox 3 and the thoughts and theories that underlie the designs that were chosen. Read Alex’s full post at his weblog.

Six new localizations in Firefox 3.0.4

Seth Bindernagel writes that six new languages have been added to Firefox with the release of Firefox 3.0.4. The new languages are: Bulgarian, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, and Welsh. “Congratulations to Ogi (bg), Eduardo (eo), Sander (et), Raivis (lv), Yannig (oc), and Dewi and David (cy) for all your hard work! Special thanks to Pike for driving the technical aspects of this release, Stas who managed the web services of this release, and Pascal on webparts. Finally, Gandalf stepped in sometime around 5 AM the day before the release to write a few patches and check in the code. It was a real team process.” For more information, see Seth’s blog post.

Ubiquity Update

Aza Raskin has announced the release of Ubiquity 0.1.2. “We’ve got an amazing amount of feedback about Ubiquity since its launch. One of the main points has been wanting features and bug fixes for the commands included in Ubiquity, as well as more commands. The largest update in [this release] is the ability for all of the built-in commands to be streamed in from the HTTPS-secured ubiquity.mozilla.com. Also, for those of you who are writing commands, we’ve greatly improved the Ubiquity command editor.” For a full list of the add-on’s changes, see the release notes on the wiki.

Window Snyder on Mozilla security metrics

Gen Kenai posts, “Robert Vamosi of CNet interviews Window Snyder, Mozilla’s chief security something-or-other, on security metrics at Mozilla and how we are trying to better understand security in an open-source project platform: At Mozilla, blowing the lid off security practices.” It’s an interesting interview in which Window discusses the difficulty of measuring security, the metrics we use at Mozilla, and the questions around why and how to measure security over time. You can read the original article and watch the accompanying video at the CNet news website.

Developer calendar

For an up-to-date list of the coming week’s Mozilla project meetings and events, please see the Mozilla Community Calendar wiki page.

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