mandazi

So I couldn’t get ColoZilla working on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit.  After checking out the Ubuntu forums and doing some Google search it seems that it doesn’t work for 64-bit versions of Ubuntu.  The solution is to use gcolor2.  You can get it via the Ubuntu Software Center or via the command line with:

sudo aptitude install gcolor2

It’s a separate application that functions the same as ColorZilla, so you will have to switch from window to window to get the color picker.  Not really ideal but its a solution for me.

If anyone knows of any working color pickers for Firefox, please share.  Thanks.

Web developers have waited for what seems like ages for this month to come along. Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, but since month after month it continues to lose ground to all other browsers, Firefox has now finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft’s browser. Firefox’s steady gain continues, Safari remains in a nonthreatening third place, Chrome is happily carving out a small niche for itself, and poor Opera can’t seem to budge from fifth place. In October, all browsers except for IE and Opera showed positive growth.

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As a web developer, I hate it when we have to make our sites compatible with IE6.  I develop with FF and then test in Safari/Chrome/Opera.  When it comes to IE, I have to test in both IE6 and IE7, becuase 20% of the users on the internet feel that IE6 is the best browser or they fail to upgrade or they are on a company PC which and too lazy to upgrade.

I really can’t take this anymore.  There needs to be a universal appeal from all web developers worldwide to stop developing for IE6.  In fact we should make all our sites not accesible in IE6 and force everyone to upgrade to IE7 or switch to FF.