Some time ago I moaned that Firefox does not have a navigation toolbar that its predecessor Mozilla once did. Link support seems to be implemented within an extension/plugin/addon, whatever. Still that’s not going to aid adoption for “link” aided navigation.
AFAIK IE doesn’t implement link navigation at all and Opera does have some some support hidden away in the menu. Reason why I say some, is because link rel=‘archives’ is currently heavily used on this blog and unfortunately that particular relationship is not supported in Opera. I don’t think link rel is supported on Webkit or any mobile UA I’ve played with. So I think I’ll probably do away with the link elements on my blog to save some precious bytes.
I’ve liked the “link toolbar”, however it doesn’t seem to have taken off. I thought it could be an aid for accessibility, but I don’t think the WAI people have jumped on this. I wonder if Google (or other search engines) uses link rel to help crawl the site. Otherwise, I guess link rel as a navigation aid will be just one of those things… like accesskeys. Actually I like the Search Keys extension as links are automatically numbered. I’ve wanted something like that for my mobile UA for years.
Web authors should write less and UAs do more, so we probably can do away with link navigation and accesskeys to an extent.
I was having a look at the SVG version from the feed icons site and I was surprised how well it rendered.
Interestingly the SVG file is just 1.2kb! Gzipped, it’s 545bytes. A PNG 32×32 pixel version is 1.5kb and the 10×10 is 469 bytes. I wonder how the PNG format’s size grows with the pixel size. SVG‘s size won’t grow, though that’s a lie; surely memory whilst rendering the SVG will grow at some rate whilst zooming into it?
I was thinking SVG would be great for mobiles, but it is hard to argue the case. For example, rendering the SVG is surely harder than to decode a bitmap image. Also, what is the point of scaling up into an SVG graphic (on a mobile) anyway?
Perhaps we are still better with a JPEG2000 type approach. as bitmaps are far more common than vector graphics. Sadly, JPEG2000 is heavily patented. How frustrating. 
I exclaimed “Holy Crap” when I saw the news that Opera has been ported to the Nintendo DS platform.
As a proud Nintendo owner, that’s interesting news. Though how many open Wifi access points are there? Very very few. I have super fast Internet at home and work, so where would I use it? On the train? Has anyone known Wifi to work on a train?
Be cool if they also announced something like Vodafone’s mobile connect so that it would work on trains too. Btw what technology does that expensive Vodafone thing use? CDMA? What-what?
There was also an announcement of a TV tuner add on for the DS. That made me laugh, as there has been quite a bit about people watching TV from mobiles. This won’t be the clip-on-demand service of 3G, but it will be a “damn sight” cheaper! Anyway, I hate TV besides.
Back to Opera. This is a major sales/marketing coup for them. I am actually surprised Nintendo did this, considering the Japanese player Access and their NetFront browser. I haven’t played with NetFront’s browser, so I can’t compare it with Opera’s. Though I am sure Opera’s is probably better. 
I imagine Opera is absolutely ripe for being bought up now. Access is about 100 times the size of Opera.
Onto Free software. I wonder why minimo hasn’t been doing well. Well, maybe it’s my imagination but firefox feels quite heavy to me lately. So shrinking that product would be hell. The mobile market is blowing up and I really don’t think they are into Free software besides, sadly.
So Mozilla went from stupid popups to hidden headers in pages, which people ignore as they expect it to be a popup warning.
Sigh.
I hate having to restart Firefox after updating an extension. If it kept the state of all my open tabs like Opera does, then OK, maybe.
This update system scares me a little. Surely it undermines the Debian package system?