Specifically, I include the following text in my userContent.css file.

@-moz-document domain(fark.com), domain(totalfark.com) {
	#rightCol, #rightColSpacer, #topAd728x90 { display: none !important; }
	#newsContainer { background-color: #CCCCCC !important; }
}

@-moz-document domain(failblog.org) {
   #leaderboard, #panemain { display: none !important; }
   #pane2 { width: 800px !important; }
}

@-moz-document domain(facebook.com) {
   #rightCol { display: none !important; }
   .hasLeftCol .hasRightCol #contentArea  { padding-right: 20px !important; width: 759px !important; }
   .hasLeftCol .hasRightCol  .uiUfi { width: 664px !important; }
}

The first block above specifically targets fark.com and totalfark.com and disables the right column and the ad at the top, and extends out the left column. The second block targets all of the various failblog.org sites and similarly removes the right column and the ad at the top and extends the left column (making the comments MUCH easier to read). The final block again removes the right column and extends out the middle column so that it takes the place of the right. Admittedly, this looks a little odd at first, but you get used to it.

Just place the lines above into your own userConent.css file, restart Firefox and enjoy the extra room.

This post was actually written following the platform preview, but apparently was never published. I am editing it slightly and posting it now that IE9 is out.

1. Microsoft will officially make an announcement for it at Microsoft MIX 2010. – correct
2. Border-radius support! – correct
3. At least a portion of the SVG spec will be supported. – correct
4. Native support for newly introduced HTML5 elements. They may not actually function, but no longer will one need JavaScript in order to style them. – correct
5. Native Drag-and-drop – yes
6. DOM2 events. – correct
7. DOMContentLoaded support. -yes
8. Box-shadow and text-shadow- box-shadow yes, text-shadow no – WTF!!!!!
9. @font-face to support truetype fonts – yes
10. opacity – correct

So that was 6 for 10 that are a lock right now. What about the stretch predictions?

• CSS gradients – coming in IE10
• CSS transitions and transforms – coming in IE10
• W3C Ranges/Selection – correct
• Video element to support H.264 and ogg vorbis – We know it supports H.264, but won’t support ogg. Does support WebM if you have it installed.
• Audio element to support mp3 and ogg. – We know it supports mp3 (and AAC), but won’t support ogg
• DOM3 events – correct
• Web Forms 2.0 – none

So that is two fully correct and two partials.

1. Microsoft will officially make an announcement for it at Microsoft MIX 2010.
2. Border-radius support!
3. At least a portion of the SVG spec will be supported.
4. Native support for newly introduced HTML5 elements. They may not actually function, but no longer will one need JavaScript in order to style them.
5. Native Drag-and-drop
6. DOM2 events.
7. DOMContentLoaded support.
8. Box-shadow and text-shadow
9. @font-face to support truetype fonts
10. opacity

Stretch predictions:

• CSS gradients
• CSS transitions and transforms
• W3C Ranges/Selection
• Video element to support H.264 and ogg vorbis
• Audio element to support mp3 and ogg.
• DOM3 events
• Web Forms 2.0

Phase one of Local Load is to allow developers to speed up the loading of their Web sites and to save on bandwidth by loading a copy of the most popular JavaScript frameworks on the net (currently I choose all the extensions hosted on the Google AJAX Library API) from the local disk, rather than loading the file from the Web.

Phase two of Local Load will be to allow users to install their own scripts that can be replaced by Local Load. The believe is that when this is coupled with the Mozilla Build Your Own Browser (BYOB) project (or something similar) will allow developers to deliver enterprise solutions using Web technologies with the near speed of a local application.

But then he was like:

HTML 5 does not have this problem. HTML 5 is an extension of what already exists on the Web. It is because of this that browser makers have jumped on this effort and have already begun working on the features for this. All modern browsers, even IE8, support at least SOME features of HTML 5. Unfortunately there are too many people out there today that are not using browsers that support these features, and every browser maker has picked various parts of HTML 5 to implement first, but we are seeing progress on this. XHTML 2 has been in the works for a number of years longer than HTML 5. And as far as I am aware no browser supports anything that was being planned for such. The only exception possibly being XForms (which Opera has the best support), and I’m not even sure if that was a part of XHTML 2.

I don’t know a single developer that has ever attemptd to write anything using said language. Maybe I’m just not listening to the right people, but I do spend a signficant portion of my life following the works of industry leaders such Peter-Paul Koch (ppk), Eric Meyer, and Molly Holzchlag, as well as the development blogs for the Internet Explorer team, the JScript team, Google Code, and the Yahoo Developer Network. I can’t believe that between all of that those groups that I would not once have ever heard about something interesting happening with XTHML 2.0 support if there was really something going on. For years I considered it an intellectual challenge rather than something that was ever going to be taken seriously. That intellectual challenge has met its unfortunate end. XHTML 2.0 we never knew thee.

Do I think they ripped off my idea without any credit? No, I doubt that is the case. In fact looking at the Dojo Google Analytic revision page it seems that they came up with the idea in on August 17, 2008. I don’t recall when we deployed our version at work, but it was months before I posted the version on the Google Analytics forum. Regardless, the ideas were conceived independently from one another which I find fascinating. I don’t think I am a bad programmer by any means, but I didn’t know that I was so good that the techniques I have come up were considered good enough to present to the masses.

The first issue of Spider-Girl has a cover date of October 1998, and despite a very vocal and loyal following (of which I am a part of said following and have every appearance of said character) the comic faced cancelation on numerous occasion only to be saved due to various campaigns across fandom or the use of publishing gimmicks to up sales on the book. It got to the point where Spider-Girl was finally officially cancelled and new stories of the character was moved to Marvel’s digital/online comic imprint where her stories are printed a few weeks later in the Amazing Spider-Man Family anthology comic. While there is some value to these 14 issues, everyone (including Quesada) agrees that this set of comics is an interesting choice of comics to preserve, presumably considering the value of other comics in there vastly exceeding these comics.

After speaking out on the negative stigma that collectability received due to the speculator boom in the mid-90′s Quesada had this to say:

For someone like Kristin’s brother who was an obvious fan of the medium, there is a whole other aspect to collectability. It sounds to me that he was like so many of us, who keep our comics or collect certain comics because we have an emotional attachment to them and or they remind us of a particular moment in time in our lives. I have a very small collection. It’s a collection that isn’t particularly worth much money. They’re mostly torn up books, not necessarily hallmark issues, but they mean something to me. I have the first three comics that my father bought me. They were three Spider-Man comics, and they’re all torn up and in terrible shape. I didn’t really keep them very well but I always kept them very close to my heart. They’re comics that I will give to my daughter, and hopefully she can give them to her kids if they last that long.

So, with respect to “Spider-Girl,” I don’t know what the market value is on those books, but it’s probably not a lot, but there are readers out there who do treasure May Day’s adventures. Perhaps Kristin’s brother may have taken extra care preserving them because perhaps those stories had a particular emotional connection with him or he saw something in those books that he wanted to preserve for a later date. Maybe he was saving them for a special moment – perhaps to hand them down to someone he thought might get a lot out of these comics.

While I have not gotten to the point where I have ever vacuum sealed any comics — in fact I do not yet have every one of my comics bagged and boarded, though every comic I have purchased for the last 6-7 years has been and I have worked my way up my collection to the “S”s bagged and boarded — I do indeed have numerous comics that I think back of fondly that do not have significant value. Interestingly enough, many of them coming from the Spider-Girl writer Tom DeFalco.  It was during his run on Fantastic Four that I began truly collecting and not just buying random issues I came across and thus why I am so lenient on that era of Fantastic Four, despite it being considered a poor run by many Fantastic Four fans. Which then explains why I was also a fan of DeFalco’s Spider-clone fiasco.  *

I must have read the story where Spider-Man’s gained the powers of Captain Universe about a dozen times when I was a child. It was such a novel concept for me as a child. Here we have Spider-Man, a down to Earth guy who is remarkably driven by guilt/responsibility (despite not being Catholic) who cracks jokes to make up for his own inadequacies and because a situation was so dire he was chosen as the random recipient of cosmic powers to battle a Tri-Sentinel. Honestly, it sounds corny as all heck, but I loved it back then. I didn’t get many comics at the time, but a comic shop did open up around me. At the time that time Marvel recent some trading cards. My Grandpa bought me a pack and it contained hologram card of cosmic powered Spider-Man! I went back and bought as many packs as I could because the holograms were so cool. I then read the stats and the background history on the characters and I was hooked. It got me back in and buying actual comics. I really wish I did not write on a few of those cards.

The Spider-Girl is a run of comics that means a great deal to me. These stories were told in a contemporary manner that harken back to many elements from the silver/bronze era. They are stories that work on numerous levels. They are stories that are appropriate for children that are intellectual enough that a young adult (or the adult collector) can consider them entertaining. I do feel that they would be great stories to read to a daughter to give her a great role model.

* This may seem like I am implying DeFalco was a bad writer, but this is not the truth. Unfortunately the speculator boom hit Marvel very hard and it was on the brink of or had to file bankruptcy during these eras and thus Marvel was forced to run wild with any concept that started to sell even relatively well. This meant that writers were being forced to keep coming up with ideas for something that may have legitimately only had a limited shelf-life. The Spider-clone storyline is considered the most infamous of such conundrums.

The believe behind the video element is that video has become so fundamental to the Web that it no longer makes sense to require users to install plug-ins such as Flash or Silverlight in order to watch files. The video element allows for sub elements such as a link to a file that the browser will play if it knows how to play it. It allows you to place other content inside of the tag as a fall back in case nothing can play it, or the browser does not support the video tag to begin with. This means that you could embed Flash (or Silverlight) to play the video if the video tag as a fallback, and barring that you can reference just the little bit more.

The OGG Theora codec is a royalty-free codec, while H.264 (as seen in mp4) is a proprietary codec that offers a higher quality video at a lower bitrate than OGG. Opera and Mozilla are hesitant about supporting H.264 due to licensing and distribution issues, while Apple does not seem to be interested in implementing OGG claiming they are worried concerned about patents. Google (who owns YouTube, which serves out files using H.264, but no OGG) actually supports both file formats in Google Chrome.  Microsoft’s recently released IE8 has no support for the video element.

To help keep things clear, here is a Venn diagram.

Obama lost to Republican presidential candidate John McCain by 11 percentage points and close to 1 million votes. Still, that margin is less than more than half of what it was when the state’s favored son George W. Bush was on the presidential ballot.

Let me emphasize that again less than more than half. Really? This is what passes for journalism today in the online world? This is what is killing print media? What is that even trying to say? Wouldn’t less than more than half just be less than half? The Hell?