O’Reilly Network: What Is Firefox

A lot of people ask me this question, because I’m always going on and on about Firefox. This article provides good answers.

O’Reilly Network: What Is Firefox

Firefox is a free web browser. It is one of the products of the Mozilla open source software project, supported by the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is an application platform. You can write applications and extensions that install and run on top of Firefox. Firefox is a feed reader. It supports auto-discovery of RSS and Atom, with features to integrate feeds into bookmarks. Firefox is a way of life. There have been over 90 million d

ownloads since Firefox 1.0 was released in November, 2004.

XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 1: Overview of XML features

This is a highly technical advertisement for Firefox 1.5 [DeerPark] for developers, but it is an interesting read, IMO for almost anyone interested in what Firefox is looking to do next.

XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 1: Overview of XML features

Discover new XML features for the fastest-growing Web browser

developerWorks

Level: Intermediate

Uche Ogbuji (uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com), Principal Consultant, Fourthought Inc.

20 Sep 2005

The open source Firefox Web browser continues to grow in popularity. Users like the security and convenience features it offers. Developers like the Firefox attention to standards compliance, inherited from its Mozilla roots. The most recent version, Firefox 1.5 (currently in beta), comes with many features for XML developers, including XML parsing, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, SVG, XML Events in JavaScript™, and XForms. Additional third-party extensions provide even more XML support. In this article, Uche Ogbuji provides an overview of XML features in Firefox 1.5.

Google MyWay - How to search Google efficiently

Anyone who has taken the time to look at the search syntax page at google.com has benefitted from learning the extra words, characters, and punctuation that can refine the search term you are using to improve your search. This page is an independent searcher’s set of google syntax that goes into more depth and better explanation than even Google’s page does. Good for this guy.

Google MyWay - How to search Google efficiently
filetype:

Searches the suffixes or filename extensions. These are usually, but not necessarily, different file types. I like to make this distinction, because searching for filetype:htm and filetype:html will give you different result counts, even though they’re the same file type. You can even search for different page generators, such as ASP, PHP, CGI, and so forth—presuming the site isn’t hiding them behind redirection and proxying. Google indexes several different Microsoft formats, including: PowerPoint (PPT), Excel (XLS), and Word (DOC).

Eg: homeschooling filetype:pdf

“leading economic indicators” filetype:ppt

CII Sessions Fall 2005

Course Revision
Welcome back to Rider University for the Fall 2005 Semester!
The Center for Innovative Instruction [CII] is the dissemination and best practices arm of the Teaching and Learning Center. The CII allows you to get in depth help with instructional strategies and instructional technologies, allowing you to potentially improve teaching and learning in your courses. For more information about the CII, please visit the CII Catalog of Instructional Innovation at http://ghost.rider.edu/cii

We are offering lots of faculty development sessions this semester in both instructional strategies and instructional technologies. These are listed below. See the link below to register.

About the Instructional Technology Offerings:

Hands-on Blogs : Blogs are a way for you and your students to collect and share information and research. Hands on Blogs gives you the opportunity to learn about, set up and experiment with your very own blog. For an example of a blog, please visit John LeMasney’s Instructional Technology Blog at http://ghost.rider.edu/insttech

Hands-on Wikis : Wikis are collaborative web sites that allow groups to come together to edit documents en masse. Lots of instructors are looking for this ability, and you can have that ability with your collaborative editing group after coming to Hands on Wikis.

Intro/Advanced Blackboard : Blackboard is our Learning Management System [LMS] at Rider. In Intro to Blackboard, you’ll learn how to log in, make changes to courses, add announcements and syllabi, and get a good look at what Blackboard can do. In Advanced Blackboard, we’ll look at assessments, gradebook, discussion boards, and groups.

Hands-on Firefox : Firefox is a Browser, a free and powerful tool that you can use to help you research, organize, and extend the boundaries of what you do now with Internet Explorer or Netscape. This application uses little pieces of code called ext ensions that extend the functionality of the common browser. Want to know more? Come to Hands on Firefox!