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The Old Dinosaur Gets a Makeover

By Ian Lloyd | October 17th, 2003 | Filed in Browsers

For those who haven’t already found out, there are two great pieces of news about Mozilla. First up, there’s a new version of the excellent power user-friendly browser – now at version 1.5. Find out about the new features here. The second bit of good news is that the Mozilla site has had a re-working by Dave Shea (of CSS Zen Garden fame). …

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For those who haven’t already found out, there are two great pieces of news about Mozilla. First up, there’s a new version of the excellent power user-friendly browser – now at version 1.5. Find out about the new features here (no comment from me as I’ve yet to give it a proper try-out, but the changes to tabbed browsing look promising).

The second bit of good news is that the Mozilla site has had a re-working by Dave Shea (of CSS Zen Garden fame). Dave has teased us about the ‘forthcoming project’ for a while but today he explains the process in full, and while the makeover is still officially a beta, it is clearly linked to from the Mozilla.org home page, so it’s no longer a secret.

A note from Dave about markup and validation (before you go and test it out – because you will find errors):

Content was frequently copied & pasted from older documents, so a lot of pages will spit out errors. My templates were okay, so we’ll have to blame the content here. There are a lot of pages to retro-fit, so this isn’t going away any time soon.

As well, the whole XHTML 1.0 and MIME type issue has reared its ugly head. I debated what to do about this at the beginning, and in the end I think chose wrong. HTML 4.01 will probably be the final goal, if for no other reason than to quiet the pedants.

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