Firefox’s informative blogs for designers
In case if you are not aware that Cheah Chu Yeow runs most informative and influential blogs for Firefox. He is managing the blogs for long time with the help of respected members in the Mozilla community. Thought it will take little time to get around a good read however you get lot of information from the site. You must be wondering what they can tell you about the browser. But go through this blogs and you will find out the reason for your question. People thing Firefox is just container for peas but it is lot more than that.
People who have gone through the blogs suggested the title should be ‘Oh cool!’ instead of ‘The secret is out – Firefox’. This book is really eye-opening and you will realize really interesting stuff that you have missed out to see. Moreover, cleaner tones of people have made the forum brighter than others. They are constantly making changes for fine-tuning the designs for visitors of blogs. You can even choose color scheme to your forum. User can install Greasemonkey if you haven’t till now. You will find this installer on thedt.net website where you have to simply click the link.
This link will load browser as plain text file. After that you just need to go to Tools option and click on Install User script option. There are site point forums that will help you in navigation. If you prefer to alter the page rather than entire forum then there are options available like “Skinner page”. This will enable you to yellow entry panel that will float above the page. There is plenty of information about CSS for Firefox. When you visit any website just right click, you will see number of options. Select View Source and you will be able to see CSS of that particular webpage. You can restyle the page by determining which elements you can re-style according to your preferences.
The class used for styling right panel is called as .alt4 and the class used for main or right panel is alt2. You can right your own CSS class in the text area provided at the left panel. Just click test button and you will be able to view results of your CSS class in the right panel. Moreover, it will give you tinker color option. Make the changes until you are happy and just click save button to commit the changes. Next time whenever you visit any website with Firefox your CSS class will be used to display the content in the browser. It will override the existing CSS class of the webpage.
The procedure to UNDO all the changes of your styling is very simple. You need to go to the page where all the script is running. You can re-open it in Cskinner panel. Make all necessary updates and save the changes. At time point of time Firefox is probably the only good option for all technical users of browsers. It is the only browser that shows exactly render in PDA’s and smart phones. It provides reasonably great minority of the styling page. You will get to see all Mozilla mobile offering on the blogs. Though, they are still in development stage.
Firefox small screen use XPI for rendering webpage which is the best technology and latest Mobile Application API’s in today’s market of browsers. Mobile technology requires lot of efforts as such small screen device gives much different result for the technology used in desktop application. The page tackling of this device is very different. Ultimately, no other single emulator other than Firefox gives look as good as it does. Moreover, it will provide great scope for future extensions, add-ons and navigation options in the browser.
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