05.31.07
Posted in Camino at 1:52 am by Smokey
Because blogs.caminobrowser.org has a brain-dead feed aggregator that can’t handle a bunch of people’s feeds (don’t worry, it’s going to be fixed…once we’re done with the 1.5/1.0.5 release processes), you may have missed Sam’s post today.
Thanks to Google and the Mozilla Foundation for sponsoring these projects, and congratulations to Jeff and Peter. We look forward to coding with both of you this summer! Everyone please give them a big Camino community welcome. 
And get ready for Camino 1.5 (for Mac OS X 10.3.x and 10.4.x users) and Camino 1.0.5 (our last release for Mac OS X 10.2.8 users)…“real soon now.”
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05.28.07
Posted in History, Life at 9:06 pm by Smokey
As the sun sets and the flags are lowered, as burgers give way to frozen treats and thoughts of summer, pools, and fireworks, let us remember.
To those of you serving our country today, we salute you; to those of you who have served our country in the past, we honor you; to those of you who are no longer with us, we hold tight to your memory, always.
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05.14.07
Posted in Camino at 12:21 am by Smokey
It’s been quiet on the Camino front for a few weeks; if you haven’t been lurking in the right places, you might think we’ve not been doing anything. In fact, we’ve been busy with a number of low-key tasks that are nonetheless important.
At the moment, we’re waiting on final word that the version of Gecko we’re using in 1.5 is “frozen” and stable before releasing, as well as continuing to test the release candidate builds. Our fantastic team of localizers are working on putting the final touches on their translations—in spite of a nasty, nasty bug in Apple’s localization software. We’re also working on updating the website for 1.5, with all sorts of updated documentation for the new features (this is where I’ve been spending much of my Camino time) and the other tasks that come with doing a major release.
While we wait on Gecko and while the localization and website teams are working on pre-release things, we’ve also been looking forward and looking back. Shortly after we release 1.5, we will also release the last security update for 1.0, Camino 1.0.5, as we sunset our support of Mac OS X 10.2.8. We’re landing a few additional fixes to make 1.0.5 the best version of Camino possible for our remaining 10.2.8 users (and we hope to see you again on Camino 1.6 this fall when Mac OS X 10.5 arrives 
).
Earlier this week build-master and tinderbox-wrangler extraordinaire mento (aka Mark Mentovai) set up new builds on our future build machine, the colorfully-named cb-xserve01 provided by Mozilla Corp, and did the branching work to allow us to both release security updates to 1.5 and develop Camino 1.6 off the stable Gecko on the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH. Since then, we’ve landed the first patches for Camino 1.6.
Which brings me back to the title of the post, tab scrolling. Many of you will remember that last summer, Desmond Elliott won a Summer of Code spot to improve tabbed browsing in Camino. His code for scrolling tabs actually landed on the trunk last fall, but “there be dragons” on the trunk, so Desmond’s work has been unseen by all but the hardiest Camino fans. I’m pleased to announce that, thanks to Ian “froodian” Leue’s Sunday afternoon wrangling of the original code and the changes we’ve made since then, scrolling tabs are now available for everyone in the Camino 1.6pre nightly builds. There are still a number of rough edges and things we want to improve—we know the scrolling animation really isn’t animated yet, and I hear things like some tabs are a pixel too long sometimes—but the less-venturesome among Camino users can now enjoy scrolling tabs for themselves.
Stay tuned for 1.5 and other exciting developments, and as always, enjoy Camino!
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05.04.07
Posted in Life at 4:33 pm by Smokey
I noticed today that WordPress doesn’t include a comment preview function of any sort. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since it still only supports Atom 0.3 and other fun stuff. 
At any rate, I’ve gone and added a plugin that does this; please let me know if you see any problems (all two of you who read this).
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05.01.07
Posted in Life at 12:30 am by Smokey
I was at the store today picking out some birthday cards, and while the selection at this store seemed much better than what I’m used to, it was nonetheless a bit odd. I glanced at a few of the cards that had the “special friend” labels behind their slots and was taken aback by the language and sentiments expressed in these cards. They weren’t overtly risque, but they were certainly suggestive of far more than platonic friendship. Did I miss something? When did “special friend” become a synonym for “mistress”?
I have special friends, but not that kind of special.
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