I love Firefox. By the way, almost websites in Thailand are authored to best fit in Internet Explorer. The most common problem is Thai word wrap. Firefox expects to insert newline for each whitespace. As a result, Firefox usually renders incorrect layout for those web pages. Unfortunately, I found critical problem for this issue today. You can try it easily. Just go to http://www.settrade.com/. And then try to login using any user and password. Firefox will stop process in a blank page. In fact, it is not really blank one. There is a form tag and a script tag which simply submits that form. That’s all. There is no html tag and body tag. What does it mean? Firefox is too strict in rendering non-wellform HTML.

One week later since  was officially released, today Google has just  . By using this APIs, we are able to query, create and update events in Google Calendar programmically. I’m talking about potential shared calendar softwares being in progress to release in a few days. There might be Google Calendar for Google Sidebar, Firefox extension, Thunderbird extension, CMS extension, and many more.

Today, I involved in migration from MySQL 4.1 to 3.23. Yes, I mean to downgrade the software. Actually, I don’t want to downgrade but just to move from a hosting service to another one. Unfortunately, the new host is running MySQL 3.23 and the old one is running MySQL 4.1. Before to go further, the software running on top of MySQL is Joomla and its eCommerce package.

Google Bookmarks is not the latest service from Google. It is just a small service offering web-based bookmark for Google account. It doesn’t support sharing like social bookmark. Anyway, you can specify labels for each entry so you can search from your bookmarks. Generally, you don’t need to go to Google Bookmarks to browse or search for an entry. What you need is just to access the bookmark via browser or other program running on your desktop. On IE, the latest Google Toolbar supports this feature. Unfortunately, Firefox don’t support at all.

I have multiple accounts on some websites, e.g., admin user and a normal user. Sometimes, I would like to login the two accounts simultaneously to use admin user to configure the site and normal user to test the configuration immediately. Unfortunately, most websites rely on cookie authentication so I can login only once. The previous login session are purged autmatically. My favorite web browser is Firefox. So I need to run 2 browsers. Below are the list of browsers I tried.

Have you ever watched screencasts of Ruby on Rails to create a weblog site in 15 minutes and TurboGears to create a wiki site in 20 minutes? If you haven’t, give them a try. This is not a language war. I just want to explain my principle of how to develop a web site effectively. First of all, I will summarize the result of comparison of those two movies.