Today is the big day - that’s right today is Firefox day! I have been waiting for weeks, have been practicing downloading, and even woke up early just to be ready. So I am all ready to download the Firefox 3 browser and be part of history - but the site is down. And when the Firefox site isn’t down, it’s pointing people to Firefox 2. To heck I say, let’s all go back to using Lynx - the world was a better place then - heck gas was 79c a gallon then.

If you are looking to download the Firefox 3 browser, here’s another location for immediate download we are told.

Don’t forget tonight’s party in NYC - I believe even if the Firefox/Mozilla sites are down, the party will still go on!

And check out:

• Corsin Camichel’s blog - he is liveblogging the entire event for the full 24 hours!
• Rafe Needleman at Webware is hosting a live chat

Update 2pm Eastern - the site is back and now there’s a groovy counter - there’s loads of numbers on the counter but nothing matches up so your guess is as good as mine!

A few weeks ago, an announcement was made the “Homebrew Channel” had been released for the Wii. What that is, is a channel for your Wii that allows you to boot homemade games, emulators, applications and demos on your Nintendo Wii. The channel is very well put together and looks very professional once it is installed.

It should be noted that this channel is not an official Nintendo release. This channel was developed by independent programmers, as is all of the software that can be run through the channel.

There is already quite a long list of programs that you can download and run through the Homebrew Channel. I have installed it on my Wii and am extremely impressed.

You can find all the pertinent information at WiiBrew.org.

One of my colleagues sent me a link the other day to Web Site Grader, and asked me to check it out. I popped on over to the site and entered a few URLs to sites that I work on. I was pleasantly surprised to see how in-depth and accurate the analysis provided appears to be.

The utility is an SEO analyzer that rates your site in comparison to all of the other sites that have been analyzed using the tool. It offers quite a few interesting options, including the ability to compare your site to specific competitors, the ability to grade your site on specific keywords, etc.

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Celldweller, an artist I have followed for close to 15 years, through multiple aliases, has come up with another innovative way to promote his music. In partnership with a group called trueAnthem, along with video game publisher ubiSoft, is giving away 16 free tracks from various sources, including his debut album from the Celldweller project, fan remix contests and his forthcoming sophomore release.

For those of you that don’t know, Celldweller is just one of many projects/alias for a man generally known as Klayton or Klay Scott. For a while, he was known as Scott Albert (possibly his birthname, although confirmed biographical details are extremely difficult to come by), Buka, Dred, Circle of Dust, and many more. He has collaborated with many different artists from all walks of life. Some notable collaborators on his various projects include Tommy Victor of Prong — Prong is now signed on Klayton’s “fixt” record label — Mark Solomon of Outer Circle, The Crucified and Stavesacre, Living Sacrifice, Klank, Criss Angel and many more. He has been credited with inspiring other great industrial artists including Stabbing Westward.

He has provided music for countless video game and motion picture soundtracks (including the Spiderman movies), the theme song for MTV Sports, the three-part (over three hours of music) soundtrack to Criss Angel’s live “Angel Dust” (a combination of Angel’s last name and the last word in Klayton’s original project Circle of Dust) stage show, much of the music from season one of Mindfreak (Criss Angel’s TV show), and so much more.

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Pingdom is out today with a new report in which they analyze a variety of the top Internet sites to see which Javascript framework they are running. The tested frameworks included: Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit. A few Web sites use multiple frameworks including DIgg and Bebo.

Prototype seems to be the most popular among the top sites with jQuery close behind. A friend of mine says jQuery is awesome - I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. Check the Pingdom blog to view the list.

I found a rather interesting and amusing story on Yahoo! News, this morning when I logged into my account.  It seems that, while a woman was on vacation in Florida recently, her digital camera went missing.  She feared that her camera, and the pictures that she had taken during the vacation, were lost forever.

Much to her surprise, though, her Eye-Fi memory card connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot somewhere along the way and uploaded not only her photographs, but the photographs that the thieves had been taking with her camera.  There is no word within the story as to whether or not the criminals were found and arrested, but at least she got her pictures back. If I was a little more skeptical, I would almost swear that this was a publicity stunt arranged by Eye-Fi. It sure seems like a great reason to drop the extra cash for the gadget.

In one of my recent posts, I brought up the subject of using XML files as opposed to databases. When we released the referenced application to the public and began using it, I encountered a strange problem that took me the better part of the morning to solve.

After the first new news release was posted, which included an amazing amount of text and HTML code (the meat of the news release was two extremely long lists - broken into four-column tables - of award recipients). Once the release was posted, the script that accessed the XML files began timing out every time I tried to access the page. Of course, because the news release was posted almost immediately after making the page live, I had no idea what was actually causing the timeouts.

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This is the final installment of my four-part tutorial on manipulating the DOM with javascript. So far, we have explored the createElement, appendChild, insertBefore, replaceChild and removeChild functions. In this final post, we will explore the createTextNode function, and will then put it all together into a real world example.

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In my last post, we explored the appendChild and insertBefore functions. As I explained, those are two of the three main functions you can use to add a new element into your HTML page. In this post, we will explore the replaceChild and removeChild functions.
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In my last post, I explored the createElement function to begin showing you how to add, remove and replace elements in your HTML pages with javascript. In this post, I will explore the appendChild and insertBefore functions. These are two of the three functions you will use to actually insert the new element you created in the last post.
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