My name is Mihai and all I do is web development,
be it server-side (PHP, mySQL and others) or client-side. I am
mainly interested of Web standards and related technologies. I have
good experience with Flash as well, but I no longer like it much.
I have contributed to various web standards-related mailing lists,
with reviews and comments to web specifications like HTML5.
Additionally, I also worked on several projects of my own.
Mozilla has made the
final release of Firefox 10. The developer tools team has
worked for over 18 months for what you get to play with - this new
release brings a lot of the hard work each team member has put into
these tools. I am happy to be one of the people who contributed to
this really big release. We always strive for quality and
performance. While these tools are now undergoing a lot of work in
terms of features and polish, they are already at a point where we
can be proud of them.
The Eclipse Orion code
editor has gone through great improvements since Firefox 8 and it
is now enabled by default. Collaboration with the Orion team has
been very successful and we are making great progress. I really
enjoy working with them!
Firefox 11 beta features a new Style Editor developer tool that
also uses the Orion editor for syntax highlighting. We are also
working on a JavaScript debugger for a later Firefox release which
is going to use the same editor, with additional features.
Keep your Firefox updated and have fun using our developer tools!
Just a quick note: today we have landed the Orion editor in Firefox. If all
things go well, users will play with Orion in the new Scratchpad
developer tool in Firefox 8.
Implementation and integration notes: only the Orion TextView is
used and for now this feature is disabled by default due to some
bugs with bidirectional text support and accessibility issues. We
are looking into improving the code so we can later enable Orion by
default. This will happen after Firefox 8.
To enable Orion you need to go to about:config and change
devtools.editor.component to "orion".
An obligatory screen shot and screen cast:
I did the screen cast one month ago. The only changes since then
are code quality improvements, bug fixes and minor UI improvements.
Big thanks go to the awesome Orion team for their great project and
fruitful collaboration, and to the Mozilla colleagues who had the
patience to review all the code I wrote: Robert Campbell, Gavin Sharp and Ehsan Akhgari.
Have fun! Play with tomorrow's Firefox nightly builds or... wait
for the Firefox 8 alpha/beta/stable release (whichever you prefer).
If you want gory technical details, just check out the bug
reports where all the work was done: bug
636727 and bug
660784.
I've been tagged by my colleague of awesomeness at Mozilla,
Robert Campbell!
The rules:
Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your
post. (see above)
Share seven facts about yourself in the post. (see below)
Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names
and the links to their blogs. (see below)
Let them know they’ve been tagged.
Seven things about me:
Learned English on my own, without any formal training. Now I
am doing the same with learning French.
I like languages quite much, not just English or French.
My first computer was an Atari 520ST, which was
upgraded to 8 MB of RAM, and it had newer versions of TOS and GEM.
Online since 2000.
Worked with Flash ActionScript in my early web days. Gave up on
Flash before the advent of AJAX, CSS3, HTML5 and all of the "Web
2.0" hype.
Learned Python without needing it for any project, just because
I like it. I have yet to do a project with Python. Might do
one
project when time allows.
It is a long time since I last wrote anything in this blog, but
today I have a great occasion to write about! Today I am really
glad to be part of a great open source project release: the new Firefox 4 from Mozilla is out!
Go ahead, download the browser, play with it and use it!
Since July 2010 I have started to work with the new developer tools team. This
is the awesome team that brings you the new Web
Console tool into Firefox 4. :)
There's a special feeling to making contributions to such big
projects that reach hundreds of millions of people. These months I
learned a lot of cool technical stuff from the fellow software
enthusiasts at Mozilla. I also learned that open source at Mozilla
goes beyond putting the Firefox source code on a Mercurial
repository, out in the open for everyone. Open source is the way to
drive development, manage a project and a company.
Congratulations to the whole Mozilla community for this awesome
release!
Update: Yesterday, on the Firefox 4 release day, I found a blog post from a fellow Mozillian titled Proud. I really liked the video he linked. Here it is:
The globalCompositeOperation property is not yet
supported by MSIE 9. The Color mixer visualization looks a bit
weird because of this.
If you change the canvasElem.style.width/height
properties the Canvas element is cleared. This is wrong and breaks
the implementation of image load and zoom. Check a minimal test case.
The PaintWeb
integration into TinyMCE demo page fails to work. It seems that
TinyMCE 3.2.5 fails to work properly in MSIE 9. I shall upgrade it
to the latest version, and thus update the PaintWeb plugin as well.
