Dings go Dong! in FireFox...

Tuesday, 02 May 2006 01:13pm

Mozilla FireFox...or rather thunk! © Mazeguy I was poking around a few sites the other day and noticed that FireFox ignores most of the font symbols site owners used... it seems "Dings" are ignored which is a bit of a concern as it's not like they are the latest and greatest form of rocket science.

WingDings have been around since 1990 (wikipedia.org ~ Wingdings), they even have a little urban myth attached to them "Microsoft's Wingdings font includes hidden anti-Semitic and 9/11-referential messages." but WebDings didn't follow until 1997 (wikipedia.org ~ Webdings), now being a bit of a Dinger myself it does cause some concern as the popularity of FireFox grows as we have a character map presentation table of both WingDings and WebDings and as per the FireFox norm, both fail to display as intended. If you're confused as to what I'm prattling on about spring open your browser....

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FireFox continues to grow...

Thursday, 27 April 2006 03:58am

Mozilla FireFox on me a little every day but every now and then some applications / links will cause Avant to spring into action taking control... and as such, out of habit (or lazyiness) I will retain and use it along side FireFox for the remainder of my day or until my next reboot... old habits die hard it seems.. and lazyness is a killer to beat © Mazeguy

Beware, FireFox does tend to sneak up on you... I'll be happily minding my own business plodding away in Avant, Internet Explorer or Safari and go to reach for a must have feature like Window Resizer only to find that it's not there! FireFox is now integrated into so many of my day to day habits and doings that I don't think I'll ever fully be able to wean myself off it even if I wanted to... and if it fell off the face of the planet I'm sure I'll feel like my middle arm has been severed from my body! © Mazeguy

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