Blog > 101 Ways to Skin a Fox
We've long been fans of the Mozilla Firefox browser and vocal advocates for its adoption by every web surfer on the planet. Some of you have even felt the holy wrath of our preaching in person, endlessly berated to dump InternetExplorer in favour of the shiny red fox. We'll spare you a repeat episode, but if you haven't caught the routine yet - stick around! - we're here all week. And try the cheesecake. At any rate, it is with the greatest of pride that we hereby announce and proclaim that Radiant Core has been retained by Mozilla to design and implement the official theme for the Firefox 2 release! We've actually been hard at work on it for a few weeks, polishing pixels and zooming through XUL, but very much in stealth mode. If you'd like a sneak peek, Mike Beltzner has posted an overview of our work to date on the Mozilla wiki, or you can wait for the Firefox 2 Beta 2 release (see the schedule). Stay tuned to this here blog as we'll be posting a series of mini-articles walking through the process we followed, from rough drafts and ideas right through to the final XUL implementation.
It's been a very exciting privilege to work with the team responsible for the original Winstripe and Pinstripe teams and with the folks who regularly inspire and impress us with their dedication to the Mozilla community. We're really looking forward to making our own contribution. We've also been lucky enough to bring back an old Radiant Core favourite (and original co-founder!), Mr. Sean Martell, who has been doing the bulk of the actual pixel pushing and icon shining.
And while you're here, why not take a look at our Portfolio to see some of the other work we've done, or check out Foundation, our award-winning Website Management Platform. You can also subscribe to a variety of feeds for the blog if you'd like to stay up to date.
It's been a very exciting privilege to work with the team responsible for the original Winstripe and Pinstripe teams and with the folks who regularly inspire and impress us with their dedication to the Mozilla community. We're really looking forward to making our own contribution. We've also been lucky enough to bring back an old Radiant Core favourite (and original co-founder!), Mr. Sean Martell, who has been doing the bulk of the actual pixel pushing and icon shining.
And while you're here, why not take a look at our Portfolio to see some of the other work we've done, or check out Foundation, our award-winning Website Management Platform. You can also subscribe to a variety of feeds for the blog if you'd like to stay up to date.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 08:10 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags firefox, mozilla, radiantcore, theme, design, foundation • Permalink • 17 comments
Comments
Patrick Dinnen
says:
That's great news guys. Congrats.
Posted by Patrick Dinnen on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 9:44 AM
Madhava
says:
Looks great! Can't wait to use it!
Posted by Madhava on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 12:52 PM
Jason
says:
I love the mockups at the wiki. Good luck, and keep up the great work!
Posted by Jason on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 2:44 PM
Leila Boujnane
says:
Jay that's awesome news! Brilliant!
Posted by Leila Boujnane on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 3:51 PM
Taylan Pince
says:
That's amazing news! Congrats guys!
Posted by Taylan Pince on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 3:52 PM
/pd
says:
Con'grats on the endorsments by Mozilla :)_
All the best Jay and Team
Posted by /pd on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 3:57 PM
Martin Cleaver
says:
Way to go!
That's awesome. Congrats!
That's awesome. Congrats!
Posted by Martin Cleaver on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 4:42 PM
Mark Kuznicki
says:
Congratuations! That is as good a stamp of approval as you get.
Posted by Mark Kuznicki on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 7:22 PM
Craig Saila
says:
Just adding my congratulations to the list -- Mozilla made a great choice.
Posted by Craig Saila on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 8:16 PM
Cameron Booth
says:
Very cool Jay. Looking forward to seeing the results!
Posted by Cameron Booth on Wednesday July 12, 2006 at 11:55 PM
Rohan Jayasekera
says:
Every time you guys look at a Firefox window in future you'll be able to say "we did that".
Congratulations.
Posted by Rohan Jayasekera on Thursday July 13, 2006 at 5:26 AM
Bryce Johnson
says:
more Spazsquatch... oh and cheescake...
...oh and way to go on that skin job :-O
Posted by Bryce Johnson on Thursday July 13, 2006 at 8:54 AM
james
says:
so when do we get to install a test version of this awesome theme?
Posted by james on Thursday July 13, 2006 at 5:06 PM
James -
The new theme is expected to land in Firefox Beta 2. Keep an eye on the official release schedule for more information.
Thanks!
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday July 13, 2006 at 5:20 PM
SimonG
says:
Guys - you're treatment of inactive tabs is damn ugly on OSX. You've changed it from inactive tabs having no visible rounded tab corners (which sets the tabs very nicely back into the tab bar), to now having them (giving them too much visual strength). This might be fine on windows, but it is inconsistent with safari, camino, and firefox as it currently exists on OS X. Please reconsider.
Posted by SimonG on Thursday August 31, 2006 at 8:28 PM

