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Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Test Pilot: Vision
"How many tabs does an average use at a time? How about novice users? How often is the stop button pressed? How many times do people open a new tab to perform a search?
There are hundreds of questions like these whose answers would help quantitatively inform the design process of Firefox. At the moment, as evidence in discussions we generally only have access to studies, anecdotes, first principles, early-adopter feedback, and ad-hoc experiments.
While those are all useful, that’s they are no substitute for specific data."
RTMP Spec To Be Opened
James Ward: "A little over a year ago Adobe opened the AMF spec. Now Adobe has announced it will be opening the RTMP spec! Wahoo!!! This is big news for Flex developers! For those that don’t know, RTMP is the streaming protocol used for streaming video and audio in Flash Media Server and for streaming data in LiveCycle Data Services. The spec is expected to be published first half of this year."
Ubiquity in Firefox: Round 1
It's coming. The URL bar has always been the command line of the Web, and it is about to get a hell of a lot better. Aza and team have put together some brainstorms for how Ubiquity-like features could look and feel in Firefox. Check it out.
The country's new robots.txt file
"Here's a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive branch of the US government today. Here's the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov yesterday"
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