because firefox is too slow and heavy, i decided to use safari yesterday. i changed my default browser in my iMac and set some bookmarks. it worked great and looked very clean and neat. i may miss some functionality of firefox, like foxytunes. but it’s ok by now. it’s fast and that’s just what i’ve wanted for so long time.

and also i installed safari 3 public beta in my vista. but it’s not so good as Mac version. i found some bugs in encoding and felt some awkwardness in look-and-feel. and though it’s very fast, not so much fast as i expect compared to IE(when opening just few tabs).

I may wait till beta is over. but i don’t likely to use safari in my vista machine.. (i love my maxthon so much!)

i noticed today that new flash player 9 for linux was launched one month ago.. (it’s because i’m a mac user now)

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

now we can use full-featured flash in most of computer  environment. that means you can get full secure flash-based ajax operation.

and i noticed also that there is a fantastic 3d desktop environment for linux.

http://beryl-project.org/

so cool, more than vista or osx..

now we don’t need to adhere to one monopole os or browser..
so many people tried and the world became more democratic and liberal.
it’s a trend, we can experience more pleasant and universal pc life, thanx for all developers!

whitehart is my favorite theme.. it looks so tidy. fits for me well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/364/

and also i use these add-ons

all-in-one gesture
cutemenus - crystal svg
del.icio.us 1.2
foxytunes
right encoding

i use only minimum set for avoiding crashes. (but it couldn’t prevent all freezes)
these are too enough for my daily web life.

actually, i’m not willing to recommend it, because it’s in beta state, somewhat unstable.. but i found it very useful or maybe i can say powerful than ever, so i post this article.

you can get it from http://www.getfirebug.com/

i could hardly image the web development without firebug, it’s only few weeks ago..

P.S. i got an lesson(you know my last post), even most great tools can’t make people smarter. if you’re fool, debugging time spent will be same whatever your tool is.. so in any case, don’t blame this splendid tool..

i searched ajax enabled browser info but there’s a few useful references in the google’s results. so i decide to make some..

from wikipedia
* Apple Safari 1.2 and above
* Konqueror
* Microsoft Internet Explorer (and derived browsers) 4.0 and above
* Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox (and derived browsers) 1.0 and above
* Netscape 7.1 and above
* Opera 7.6 and above

MSIE 4.0 is developed  in oct, 1997, packaged into Windows 98. in nov, 1997.
Safari 1.2 is packaged into OS X 10.3 in feb, 2004. hardwares installed OSX10.3 by default are iBookG4, PowerBookG4, PowerMacintoshG5, iMacG5. but in almost every OSX version ajax enabled safari can be installed.
there’s a few ajax enabled browser which supports apple’s os9. but who cares?
firefox supports ajax since nov, 2004, gecko engine 1.7 version is used.
any other browsers using gecko engine 1.7 started to support ajax since early 2005.
opera supports ajax since 7.6 beta but, that version was not released publicly. opera 8.0  released in apr, 2005 is the first public version.

i’ve seen many win98 machines working on my clients’ office. they don’t feel any impulsion about updating os. because office program and browsers work well in win98. so if you want to focus realstic browser support problem, only you have to concern is IE4. there’s one more issue on ajax, and this one is very critical. native XML DOM Parser is supported only by IE 5.5+& FF1.0+. i feel very uncomfortable about it.. we don’t have good native xml parser and json converter now. ( i plan to develop and add to my library someday)

IMHO, if the customers suffer from old-browser problem, you don’t need to change your script. just recommending installation of the newest firefox is enough in almost cases ^_^; it’s free and cool browser!

XMLHttpRequest was introduced in late 1997, but till early  2005, it wasn’t a main stream technology. or maybe i can say IE was prevailed so much at that time. 7 or 8 years there was only a few movement occured in web browser market. web programming was very quite and dull. but now it becomes very exciting.. i’m a very lucky guy living this ajax age

there was a big cross-browser problem when the  javascript’s history was started. you had to write quite different codes for IE and NN. at that time, i usually gave up the NN part, and i felt no guilty :-). for my excuse, it was all NN’s fault. but FF & Mozilla doing so well in these days, i always consider cross-browser issues when i make some web apps.

but there’s only a few site who treats only cross-browser problem. do you know about select tag bug in IE? select tag element’s z-index is  highest in IE, so you have to hide when you want to see some css animation in IE. there are so many problems like this. what i aim now is, not so perfectly cross-browser(mainly FF & IE) support javascript library targeted for japanese programmer. it may not so good.. but i need it madly for my project ^_^; there are so many javascript libraries in the world, only a few library is existed for japanese environment.

because this library supports major browsers only, the code is somewhat clean, and easy to implement. and though i give up the perfect cross-browser functionality, i always consider cross-browser issues. the main target i don’t want to support is a NN with document.layer. all other browsers will be supported as far as i can.

i wish the library will be finished someday not so far future from now. but i can’t assure anything.. anyway i started the project few days ago, and it works fine till now ^_^; wish my luck~

p.s. you may be surprised when you know there are so many people still using win98 & IE4. it’s because the hardwares aren’t worn out yet. still need 4-5years maximum. but probably they don’t need my web-apps, i sure. so i decide to ignore’em. and i feel no guilty at all

i upgraded FF yesterday. i hadn’t knew, because i was so busy to make something. there are many improvements and bug fixes, also some cool features added, but those may be useless for me.:-) most impressive thing occured in FF2.0 is improvement of tab browsing, now i can quit to use the buggy TabMixPlus. good. update process was smooth enough contrast to 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade case. overall i’m very satisfied.

new version of mplayer is available since 11, Jun, 2006.
it takes a year for new version, so a lot of parts are changed

http://mplayerhq.com/

it compiled so well in my openSuSE 10.1, unlike previous version ^_^;
just type like this

./configure
./make
./sudo make install

that’s all!

and in order to view MS media format, you have to download essential codecs package, it can be downloaded from same page. copy all codecs to /usr/local/lib/codecs

what i want is just playing wma to my firefox 1.5, so i installed mplayer-plugin too

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

it needs gecko sdk 1.8 when you compile, you can get  it from YaST or apt or ports or anything your modern os package manager.

./configure
./make

and

cp mplayerplug-in*.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
cp mplayerplug-in*.xpt /usr/lib/firefox/components

yeah! baby, yeah! you can see windows media format file is played in your linux firefox machine!

P.S. auto-play is not supported because of security problem. you have to right-click the mplayer module and select play.

리눅스버전의 FF에서는 동영상(특히 MS 고유포맷)의 재생이 지원되지 않는다.
현재까지 쓸만한 유일한 솔루션은 FLASH로 만든 동영상이다. (요즘 동영상
호스팅 서비스 사이트 들은 동영상을 업로드하면 플래시로 자동 변환해준다)
그렇지만 플래시도 8.0버전은 리눅스에서 동작하지 않고, 언제 발표될지 모르는
8.5버전부터 지원을 하겠다고 하니, 당분간 리눅서들의 동영상 생활은 그다지
신나지 않을 듯하다.

웹에서 음악듣고 동영상을 보는 일이 하루에 몇번은 있는 나로서는, 이 편리하고
아름다운 리눅스 + 파이어 폭스 시스템에서 모든걸 해결했으면하는 바램이 있어서
혹시나 가능한지 알아본 결과 mplayer의 존재를 알게 되었다.. 두둥..

일단 스펙상으론 리눅스에서 윈도우즈 미디어 포맷을 볼수 있는게 사실이다.
단지 미디어 포맷만이 아니라 QuickTime이나 RealMedia같은 거의 모든 동영상
형식을 지원한다.

그런데 다운받아서 설치해보니 컴파일에러 -_-;; 아직 정식판이 나오질 않았다.
계속 개발중인 상황이다. 아마도 1년은 기다려야 원클릭으로 설치만하면
리눅스의 FF에서 동영상을 볼 수있는 시스템이 완성될거 같다..

최신기술로 만들어진 리눅스 배포판을 쓰다보니 윈도우즈는 이제 구려서 못쓰겠다..
내 블로그도 리눅스 파이어 폭스에서 보는게 훨씬 이쁘게 나온다. 요즘 세상이 너무
좋아진 듯하다.. 이렇게 하나둘씩 좋은 소프트웨어가 나오면 윈도우즈는 쳐다보지도
않는 세상이 곧 올 것같다.

There’s a plugin to show embedded movie in linux browser(especially firefox)
it is based on mplayer, the newbie of linux media player. mplayer surpport
almost every video, audio format include window media. so i tryed to install
but failed by compile errors.

it may take a year or so, till the usage of mplayer goes simple as just one click.
but it’s ok, linux softwares are going well, and someday i can live with only linux.

anyway do you know this word press blog is more beautiful in Linux FF than Windows IE.
surprise, isn’t it?