The Mozilla Group has released Chimera 0.6. The major new feature is keychain support, which lets you store passwords in OS X's central username/password database. (I've been using the the nightlies for awhile.)

Full Release Notes

For the last month, my Mac has refused to let me set Chimera or Mozilla as my default browser, no matter what I tried. I even deleted all of my internet preference files. I think it's actually a problem in the browsers, though, because as soon as I installed 0.6 I was able to set Chimera as the default. (Still can't set Mozilla as the default.)

Oh! I see that they knew about this problem, and there's a fix listed there.

# Sometimes, on Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar), Navigator won't stick as your default browser. If you have this problem, try removing the following files:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore (where ~ is your Home directory)
/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.LocalCache.csstore
and reboot your machine.

I didn't know there was a cache of the OS's user prefs. I wonder if this also explains some of the problems that IC-Switch had after upgrading to Jaguar. Flip, think this is possible?

Sometimes evil is funny (requires Flash).

André Radke has released an early version of an XSLT engine for Radio and Frontier.

What is XSLT?

XSLT is a technology for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. Sound silly? It's not.

An XML document might be written by a person (or assembled by a program) to contain a particular type of information, to be used by a particular type of application (the internal storage formats of some CMS's are XML). However, that XML is almost never designed to be presented to the user as-is, it must be converted to another format. HTML can be written as valid XML, so one popular use of XSLT is the transformation of XML documents written with one vocabulary into HTML documents for presentation on the web.

This is a very good thing. It allows the original XML documents to retain real meaning, while the transformed document can be optimized for presentation. I ran into this when working on the documentation for Conversant. Writing in DocBook allows (er, forces) me to provide a lot of meta-information about everything in the documentation ("this is sample code" and "this is the abstract for a subsection of a chapter"), without consideration for how it will actually be presented. XSLT is one way to transform that XML into HTML, automatically.