Keith Robinson offers a few, now familiar reasons to switch to Mozilla . “These are all great reasons, and should be enough to convince you to try Mozilla. However, the most important reason in my mind, is that Mozilla is a live product. What I mean by that is that it’s being worked on as we speak and will continue to improve as time goes on.”

This is an old photo of Mary’s cat Maya, who is quite ill. Any extra good karma is appreciated.

Jakob is rightfully concerned about the growing problem of information pollution. As it applies to web sites, the best advice given is this… “If users don’t need it, don’t write it.”

MozPHP “MozPHP is a Mozilla PHP integration package. With MozPHP you can execute PHP scripts in Mozilla directly without the need for a local HTTP server”

There are many things that smell bad, but few carry more awful meaning than the smell of cigarette smoke on your 14 year old daughter’s breath.

David Foster Wallace: Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity “One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math’s most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity.” I’ve got a headache already.

Anil Dash lists What Firebird Needs before becoming his default browser. “I’m usually seen by the web development community as a Microsoft apologist. I use (and like using) Windows and my main browser is Internet Explorer 6.0…Despite this confession, I will enthusiastically concede that Firebird is a fantastic browser. "

Bah! And to prove it, see Zeldman’s gallery of commercial sites designed with web standards. Oh wait…

Tog says that this is the most important column he has ever written. “Certainly their battles are not over. Most companies still don’t test, as is more than obvious, but those that don’t at least now know they are failing to do something they really should be doing. Such are not the circumstances for we user-experience flower-hoppers, or whatever touchy-feely name we might be calling ourselves this fortnight.”

Y’all may not believe it after several recent “episodes”, but Rageboy is still cool.

Tim Bray and Co. tried using Flash to create a better interface for their Visual Net application, but later decided to scrap those plans and use DHTML instead. The most interesting bit in the article is this: “The usability problem wasn’t anything wrong with Flash intrinsically, it’s just that we couldn’t get it to feel enough like being in a browser. This follows my recent feelings that many people actually want to work within and feel like they’re using a browser.

…Nearly 50% of the CNET reviews of Firebird are negative. I suspect that most of these are based upon earlier versions which, to be honest, were a bit buggy. Too bad I can’t call those folks up and explain to them that the reason some of their favorite sites look like shit in Firebird is that they were designed badly, using completely nonsensical HTML so that the popular, broken browser could display them properly.