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Mozilla 1.4a

3 April 2003

I use Mozilla for browsing, but mostly for mail. I started using Netscape Mail years back, I think with Communicator 3 Gold. I’ve simply followed the upgrade path and today I installed Mozilla 1.4 alpha.

Up until today I’d been running 1.3a, and before that 1.2a. I could never get the beta or release builds to work – they’d crash when I tried to send mail. I worked out the problem today. I’d not upgraded the spell checker, and it wasn’t compatible with the builds that crashed. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that sooner. (smacks forehead)

Anyway, 1.4a is super quick. I read in the Mozilla roadmap that they’re concentrating on stability and performance at the moment, and it seems to be paying off. I have Mozilla running 100% of the time, so performance is key for me.

On a side note, I notice that MailWasher has gone Pro. Cool.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Mo: You’re not the only one to get caught out by the spell checker issue. Caused much shouting and gnashing of teeth here.

    Interesting report on 1.4a though. Keep us posted, mate.
  2. § Manolis Votsis: Great site you ’ve got. I wish I could find a step by step tutorial on how to create a blog site like the tutorial you have on Dreamweaverfever.com

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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