Matt, creator of the terrific WordPress blog system, says that Firefox beat out Internet Explorer in number of people accessing wordpress.org by about 80,000. As he points out, this obviously isn’t representative of the Web at large or of people visiting WordPress blogs, but of WordPress users themselves, which is his target audience. Of course, these users will design websites that adhere to standards, and thus work in Firefox.

If you saw 24 tonight and were wondering, “What would I do if Turkish terrorists overloaded the Internet in order to use the Dobson override to melt down 104 nuclear power plants?”, I have some good news: they flashed the patch on the screen just long enough to catch the cure. It turns out the answer is in an MFC class called CDaoWorkspace! Just search down to the Create function, replace CDaoWorkspace with DobsonWorkspace, and you have a fully functioning nuclear override.

We really should get this in Firefox. Sure puts that antiphishing crap to shame, eh?

(24 sucks.)

There seems to be some confusion over my developer recruitment post. The purpose of the post wasn’t a casual retrospective on the evolution of Firefox development policy. It lead off with that to provide some context, but the purpose was to acknowledge that the policy is poor and solicit feedback about how we can improve it. Comments to the effect of “I don’t think that’s a good policy” are redundant and unhelpful.