Mozilla Webdev

We’ve seen a huge spike in traffic to getpersonas.com due to our prompted update for Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 users to upgrade to 3.6. Some users may have seen a degradation in site speed and reliability during the past 12 hours.

We’ve released another Python library: Bleach, for sanitizing HTML and automatically linking URLs in text, that we’re using on addons.mozilla.org and support.mozilla.com. It’s based on html5lib, which we chose because of its foundation in web standards and its active development community. Bleach is available on Github and PyPI.

Yesterday, the Mozilla webdev team released a few reusable libraries that are helping us scale out the new Django-based version of addons.mozilla.org.

If you’ve happened across the GetFirebug.com web site recently, you’ll notice everything has a rather pleasant freshly painted smell. After a much-too-long delay, we’ve finally updated the design and layout for the official Firebug web site, and introduced a lovely new icon by our resident Iconmaster General Sean Martell.

So you’ve built your web application, and people are putting data in it, but how do they get that data back out? Often, they find data by searching. MySQL provides a searchable full-text index, but it has several limitations: