One little button for Firefox: XUL is cool

Introduction This post summarizes some of my findings while attempting to make a descent single-button Firefox extension. I’ve tested the code shown below with Firefox 1.5 and 3.0 under Windows, and Firefox 3.0 under Linux, and there were zero portability issues. I would suggest reading a tutorial about toolbars and possibly Mozilla’s own tutorial about [...]

CSS and DIV layout: The main pitfalls

In the beginning web pages were simple and innocent. Then people started to abuse tables to achieve some layout. And then came CSS and DIV, the winning combination for making a web page oh-so-beautiful but not resizable. Web designers started telling the browser where to put what, and the browser responded with blind obedience, even [...]

The “kamakesef” formula revealed: Calculate the wedding present’s amount

Introduction An Israeli website, “Kama Kesef” (כמה כסף in Hebrew, meaning “how much money”) is a neat web calculator telling how much to give as a money present in weddings and other events. When I realized that I’m far from being the only one using it to decide what sum to write down on the [...]

The HebrewSecurImage Captcha generator

Introduction Do you recognize the letters in the example image above? If you do, I suppose you’re a Hebrew speaker. And since the letters are shown in handwriting style, just a Hebrew keyboard is not enough, since the keys are marked with type-style letters. With basic Hebrew skills, the translation is obvious. Others will have [...]