Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About

asa writes: "Today mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.1 Beta. New to this release are full-screen mode for Linux, BiDi Hebrew improvements, Arabic shaping improvements for Linux, and significant improvements to Venkman, the best cross-platform JavaScript debugger on the planet. Binaries and release notes available at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/. You can read more about this release at mozilla.org and mozillazine.org and if you want to see how this release fits into the overall 1.1 development cycle there's a pretty picture available at the Mozilla Development Roadmap."

Comments

Netscape profile-trashing bug still present

[Animats]

The infamous profile-trashing between versions bug is still present. Comments indicate that it has to be fixed before Mozilla 1.x goes out as Netscape, or Netscape won't coexist with itself.

Hebrew Support?

[Erwos]

Actually, I've had really good luck with Hebrew support in Linux, much more so than Windows. I don't visit all too many Hebrew sites, but it seems to me everything's been rendering fine for a while now. The spacing is a little dodgy, though, and that could be what was fixed. That'd be nice.

In case any of you are paticularly interested in seeing an example (even if ya can't read it), check out:
http://www.haaretz.co.il

Conversely, a good check of Arabic support is at:
http://www.wafa.pna.net/AraText/arabic.htm

I can see that using Moz 1.0rc1, some of that Arabic is _definitely_ not rendering correctly. I'm not a speaker of the language, but it's pretty obvious some stuff is being rendered incorrectly.

I linked both an Israeli web site and a Palestinian web site to keep accusations of political bias away. It seems there's always _someone_ who would complain if I just gave an Israeli website in both Arabic and Hebrew. Everyone happy?

-Erwos

New bookmarklets for Mozilla

[jesser]

Bookmarklets are bookmarks containing javascript code. Instead of taking you to another page, bookmarklets do things with/to the current page. Here are some bookmarklets for Mozilla that I have added since Mozilla 1.0:

"Fixing" annoying web sites:

• Zap event handlers: removes event handlers, including those responsible for blind links and exit pop-up ads.
• Zap embeds: removes java, flash, background music, and iframes from a page.
• Zap colors: makes text black on a white background, and makes links blue and purple.
• Zap: combines "zap embeds", "zap colors", and "zap event handlers".
• Test styles: type in CSS rules to experiment or to create a temporary user style sheet.

Web development:

• View Style Sheets
• View Scripts
• View Script Variables

Other:

• Toggle checkboxes
• Transfer cookies: creates a bookmarklet you can use to move cookies from one browser to another.
• Number rows in each HTML table

Several of these bookmarklets also work in IE 5.5, to the extent that IE supports DOM Level 2 and doesn't make me go too far out of my way to accommodate its quirks.