PUBLIC MARKS from solrac with tags firefox & programming

With all the hundreds of XML processing tools out there, Web browsers are still where the action is—luckily for XML developers, the action never seems to slow down. Firefox 3 introduces a huge improvement to basic XML parsing as well as a big win for those looking to use XSLT in Firefox. This makes a big difference for practical use of XML on the Web.

Ideally, every Web application should be tested to ensure that it will work perfectly on every browser that might access it. But with the fragmentation of the browser market and the increasing importance of the very fluid world of mobile platforms, that's a practical impossibility. Still, you can come closer than you might think. This article shows you a wide array of tools for cross-platform Web testing.

The Mozilla project team very early decided to develope a means of designing user interfaces for components in a platform-neutral language called XUL. It's a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform browser extensions. This article puts together the basic pieces you'll need to create most extensions with user-interface features—XUL, CSS, JavaScript, and DOM.

Firefox 2.0 brought several important changes in its XML support. It's currently reaching its peak in user deployment. Learn about updated XML features in Firefox 2.0, including a controversial change to the handling of RSS Web feeds and the well-known workaround.

Sudoku quietly appeared on the scene in the United States in the last couple of years, and then became a phenomenon, just as it had in Japan. Someone you know most likely has played it, if not yourself. Because Sudoku is based on very specific data patterns, you can use XPath expressions to evaluate the progress the user has made in a specific game. You can also use these patterns to easily use Mozilla Firefox XForms extensions to generate a game board that enables the user to play.