Mozilla Now Even Includes The Kitchen Sink

zzxc writes "Mozillazine reports that a 'kitchen sink' easter egg has been added into Mozilla by a patch to bug 122411. It shows an ASCII art animated kitchen sink. This was prompted by people complaining about Mozilla's bloat - that 'it includes everything but the kitchen sink.' You can see this xhtml demo by going to about:kitchensink in a recent Mozilla nightly, or at mozilla.org with an older mozilla build. Please note that this is not actually included in the browser package, so it doesn't add to mozilla's bloat. Instead, about:kitchensink directs the user to the xml document on mozilla's website."

Comments

Re:everything but the..

[gmuslera]

There is not comparision. This not add bloat to Mozilla exactly, nor a lot of time to developers. In the Microsoft side, instead, you have easter eggs of the size of a flight simulator.

in related and more serious news :)

[cetan]

The Mozilla 1.3 branch has been closed in prep. for release. There's a mention of it on Mozillazine as well.

The outstanding bug list has been mirrored here:
http://www.phule.net/mirrors/bugs-2003-02-22.html because it's not very nice to bugzilla.mozilla to link directly to it. At least not from /. :)

Re:kitchen sink?

[56ker]

And a comment like that would go amiss without a link to the ASCII pr0n archive - and for the people still reading this interested in Star Trek ASCII art - try here.

Re:Easter Eggs

[damiam]

about:config will show all of your current preferences and (in recent builds) allow you to edit them. Other than that and about:plugins, I don't think there are any more interesting about: eggs.

Re:Easter Eggs

[bheerssen]

There used to be more of these about: pages in the old netscape (4.x and lower). Most of them went to the home pages of various developers on the netscape project. The about:netscape page used to display a different quote from the Book of Mozilla. If you put something in that the browser didn't understand, such as 'about:whatever', the resulting page would read "Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis?"

Have a look here, they list most of the about: URIs, as well as some other forgotten easter eggs.

Re:In IE6

[ptaff]

IE has trouble with XHTML. They spend so much time making sure people don't use standards...

Have a google search with:
site:w3.org xhtml "cannot be displayed"

This is an old bug, Microsoft seems to be too absorbed with DRM to care about it.

Mozilla Doesn't Include the Kitchen Sink... Yet

[Anonymous Coward]

You can see this xhtml demo by going to about:kitchensink in a recent Mozilla nightly, or at mozilla.org with an older mozilla build. Please note that this is not actually included in the browser package, so it doesn't add to mozilla's bloat. Instead, about:kitchensink directs the user to the xml document on mozilla's website.

No, it doesn't. If you read the later comments in the bug, you'll see that drivers@mozilla.org (the project managers) have vetoed about:kitchensink. It's not likely to get into Mozilla unless the patch can be modified so it only affects Mozilla (right now it affects most Mozilla-based browsers, including Phoenix, Galeon and K-Meleon). Even then, I still have doubts that it will get in.

Re:Easter Eggs

[tom.allender]

about:cache

It's not actually in folks!

[bluephone]

Look, this got way too much coverage. I'm the originator of the bug and the sink. The r= and sr= were removed until someone fixes the patches so this builds only in Mozilla. about:kitchensink will not work in ANY Mozilla distribution yet. Nor will it unles it's fixed.

As for IE sucking a log on this, well, it's 100% valid XHTML and CSS with decent DOM use, so I'm not surprised IE won't view it.