Archive for March, 2007

The truth about copy-protection

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Galactic Civilizations fan "The Wicked Flea" on game copy-protection:

Call me inane or foolhardy if you wish, but the harder you squeeze, the more slips through your fingers. You can prove this scientifically by attempting to squeeze jello and keeping it all in your hands at the same time.

Spell check

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

One side-effect of including a spell checker in Firefox is that some users file bug reports when they disagree with the default dictionary:

Politics of localization

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

It seems that some people are angry that a Kurdish-language version of Firefox exists. The mozilla.feedback newsgroup has been full of posts about Kurdish, many of them similar to this message.

Who knew that making it possible for volunteers to translate a web browser into multiple languages could be controversial?