CSS shakedown issues with Konquerer/Safari
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A possible fix for slow SSH and Safari
domain issues
A possible fix for slow SSH and Safari
domain issues
06/24/2005 09:46 PMFor the most part, this hint applies to Tiger only, but there may be
aspects of it surrounding ssh and connections in general that are good
for pre-Tiger as well.
First, lets start with the slow SSH logins. As you may be awa...
Other forms error in Safari can cause
Keychain issues
Other forms error in Safari can cause
Keychain issues
02/17/2004 11:49 AMIf you are having trouble with a popup error window in Safari due to a
Keychain error, it is due to a problem with the "Other forms"
selection in Autofill. To fix, go to /Applications -> Utilities, then
launch Keychain Acces...
News: Apple notes Java, Safari issues
with 10.3.9
News: Apple notes Java, Safari issues
with 10.3.9
04/19/2005 08:54 AMApple noted in a knowledge base article posted to its Support Web site
that some users who upgrade to the recently released Mac OS X v10.3.9
may experience issues with Java applications and Java-enabled sites
when using Safari. Problems include Safari unexpectedly quitting, or
standalone Java applications unexpectedly quitting or not being able
to launch.
Hard disk naming can cause Safari page
load issues
Hard disk naming can cause Safari page
load issues
01/26/2004 11:27 AMI was having trouble with Safari not loading my pages. When I first
ran the browser it would load about five pages normally, then it kept
saying "Contacting http://www.anything.com" (i.e. any site) and never
loaded a thing. S...
Mac OS X 10.3.5 (#2): Disk mounting;
Bluetooth devices will not pair; Sleep
issues; Safari problems; more
Mac OS X 10.3.5 (#2): Disk mounting;
Bluetooth devices will not pair; Sleep
issues; Safari problems; more
08/10/2004 03:52 PMMacFixIt Aug 10 2004 6:13PM GMT
Camera gives dust the shakedown
Camera gives dust the shakedown
04/15/2005 08:57 PMglobetechnology.com Apr 16 2005 12:43AM GMT
A Camera Gives Bothersome Dust the
Shakedown
A Camera Gives Bothersome Dust the
Shakedown
03/14/2005 06:16 PMA digital camera from Olympus shrugs at the problem of dust by shaking
it off.
WASHINGTON: Boeing Internet service will
get a shakedown cruise
WASHINGTON: Boeing Internet service will
get a shakedown cruise
06/25/2004 05:47 AMTribnet.com - Fri Jun 25, 08:21 am GMT
Safari Magic 1.0 adds numerous tools to
Safari
Safari Magic 1.0 adds numerous tools to
Safari
07/20/2004 02:43 AMStephen Becker has announced the release of Safari Magic 1.0, a
utility which adds several tools to Safari...
XUL in Safari
XUL in Safari
10/29/2003 12:12 AMSafari 1.1 is included with the new release of Mac OS X, Panther.
From Dave Hyatt's list of Safari 1.1 features:
A complete implementation of the XUL box model. Safari on
Panther supports the complete XUL box model, including horizontal and
vertical boxes, the ability to flex, and the ability to reorder
content and reverse content. If you're building canned content that
you control using WebKit, you'll find a whole new range of layout
possibilities at your disposal. Need to create dynamically sized
headers and footers and flexible center content? The XUL box model can
do that. Need to center an object within the viewport? The XUL box
model can do that too.
With Microsoft's alternative to XUL seemingly a few years away, are Apple looking to
beat them to it with an implementation that's compatible with
Mozilla?
Safari+NNW
Safari+NNW
03/11/2003 09:44 AMAn article about how NetNewsWire
and Safari complement one another can be found at O'Reilly here.
I agree, although Safari really needs to be able to reuse
windows for URLs sent from applications like NetNewsWire rather than
always opening a new window every time.
Safari 1.3
Safari 1.3
04/16/2005 01:24 AMThose of you running Panther can now update to 10.3.9. This update
includes Safari 1.3 and new versions of WebKit, WebCore, and
JavaScriptCore that contain thousands of improvements we've made to
the engine since Safari 1.2.
What you are getting is all of the new standards support, new
WebKit capabilites, site compatibility fixes and performance
optimizations that are also present in Safari 2.0 for Tiger. The
layout engines for the two are virtually identical.
Here are some of the highlights:
Page Load Performance
Safari 1.3 loads pages overall 35% faster than 1.2 as measured by
IBench. In addition to improving the overall page load, Safari 1.3
will display content sooner than 1.2 did, so that subresources don't
hold up the initial display of the page.
JavaScript Performance
We have substantially improved the performance of the JavaScript
engine in Safari. I encourage you to check out Safari 1.3 on this
benchmark for example to see the improvement relative to 1.2.
HTML Editing
Safari 1.3 supports HTML editing, both at the Objective-C WebKit API
level and using contenteditable and designMode in a Web
page. The new Mail app in Tiger uses WebKit for message composition.
You can write apps that make use of WebKit's editing technology and
deploy them on Panther and Tiger.
Compatibility and Security
Compatibility and security are our number one priority in WebCore, and
Safari 1.3 has many important compatibility fixes. For example,
percentage heights on blocks, tables and cells now work much better in
Safari 1.3. min/max-width/height support has been added. More of the
table-related CSS properties are now supported. DOM methods like
getComputedStyle are now supported.
The DOM Exposed
The entire level 2 DOM has been exposed a public API in Objective-C.
This means various holes have been filled in Safari's DOM level 2
support. In addition to exposing the DOM to Objective-C, the JS
objects that wrap DOM objects can also be accessed from Objective-C,
allowing you to examine and edit the JS objects themselves to inject
properties onto them that can then be accessed from your Web page.
XSLT
Safari 1.3 on Panther now supports XSLT. 10.3.9 includes libxslt, and
Safari uses this excellent library to handle XSLT processing
instructions it encounters in Web pages.
Plugin Extensions
For those of you writing WebKit apps, a new Objective-C WebKit plugin
API is supported that lets you put Cocoa widgetry into the Web page
more easily. In addition enhancements to the Netscape Plugin API
(made in conjunction with Mozilla Foundation) have been implemented
for plugins that require cross-browser compatibility.
Did I mention it's really really fast? :)
In case you're curious about differences between the Tiger and
Panther versions of the engine, they mostly have to deal with
frameworks that changed underneath WebKit. For example we have new
faster image decoders on Tiger (that also handle PNGs correctly), so
you'll find that Tiger fixes some of the PNG gamma issues that will
still exist on Panther. In addition the new decoders are incredibly
fast and are now run on a separate thread on multi-processor machines
on Tiger.
The network layer has also been improved on Tiger, so this may be
another source of differences in behavior between the two operating
systems. Overall, however, it's likely that content and applications
you develop with WebKit will behave identically on the two operating
systems.
Let us know what you think.
going on a safari...
going on a safari...
03/11/2003 02:00 PMso far i'm digging the new mac os x browser safari. i haven't tested
all css stuff and java, but...
Safari 1.1
Safari 1.1
10/28/2003 11:08 PMSafari 1.1 is here. Those of you who picked up Panther can take it
for a spin. This release is big step forward from 1.0, chock full of
bugs fixes, improvements and UI refinements.
As far as new WebCore features, here's a few highlights:
(1) Better standards support. You'll find fixes for positioning bugs,
overflow bugs, floats, tables, gzip support, generated content using
::before and ::after, DHTML. You name it, we've improved it.
(2) Speed. We're still fast, and we're only going to get faster.
(3) CSS2 support. In addition to all of the bug fixes to be more
standards-compliant, we also added support for CSS2 properties like
text-shadow and new display values like inline-block. Try using
text-shadow in conjunction with ::selection. It's cool. :)
(3) Safari on Panther supports rgba values in CSS for specifying
border, background, foreground and shadow colors.
(4) Support for the CSS3 opacity (using -khtml-opacity) property.
Make entire blocks and inlines transparent without resorting to
transparent PNGs.
(5) A complete implementation of the XUL box model. Safari on Panther
supports the complete XUL box model, including horizontal and vertical
boxes, the ability to flex, and the ability to reorder content and
reverse content. If you're building canned content that you control
using WebKit, you'll find a whole new range of layout possibilities at
your disposal. Need to create dynamically sized headers and footers
and flexible center content? The XUL box model can do that. Need to
center an object within the viewport? The XUL box model can do that
too.
And in case you're curious, here's what we've already got working
post 1.1 in WebCore that you can look forward to:
(1) Support for the title attribute using tooltips
(2) The ability to tab to all controls in a Web page and to manipulate
them from the keyboard.
(3) Support for table border collapsing.
(4) Support for the CSS cursor property.
... and a whole lot more ...
Enjoy the upgrade and as always send us your feedback (trackbacks
preferred). We're listening.
Safari RSS
Safari RSS
07/01/2004 01:46 PMI haven't had a chance to talk about this, but I thought I'd again
start by briefly clearing up a point of confusion. Safari RSS is not
the name of the entire Safari browser on Tiger. It is the name of the
RSS/Atom feature in Safari itself. If you pull down the About
information in Safari on Tiger, you'll see that the version is
2.0.
Safari 1.0
Safari 1.0
11/03/2003 09:08 PMThe fastest and easiest-to-use web browser ever for the Mac.
Safari 1.2 bug seen here
Safari 1.2 bug seen here
02/12/2004 11:24 AMWe seem to have inadvertently revealed a bug in Safari 1.2 -- and we
think we know specifically what Safari is doing wrong. The bug
currently makes oatmeal of some of our layout elements. If not fixed,
it could discombobulate sites that are much more important than ours.
Safari 1.2
Safari 1.2
02/05/2004 10:24 PMSafari 1.2 includes several great new features, the most important of
which (to me) is its ability to correctly render... (28 words)
On Safari
On Safari
01/09/2003 11:40 PMSafari's the neat-o new quick browser for OSX that runs off the
Konqueror guts and impresses the heck outta your neighbors.
Safari 1.2 Changelog
Safari 1.2 Changelog
02/10/2004 12:12 PMDave Hyatt has posted a lengthy
Safari 1.2
Changelog at his website which lists all of the major changes to
this lovely browser since 1.1.
The only thing missing from this list is a note stating that the new
'roll-over image flashes' bug is noted and will be fixed as soon as
possible.
Safari Extender 1.3.5
Safari Extender 1.3.5
04/26/2004 10:58 PMAdd features to Safari, Tab Sets, Cut & Paste Tabs, print with
date and more!
Sophisticated Safari
Sophisticated Safari
01/16/2004 11:02 AM“Like everything Apple makes, Safari combines a clean, simple
interface with sophisticated functionality,” writes Walt Mossberg in
his Personal Technology column for the Wall Street Journal. “It has a
built-in popup blocker, and a built-in Google search box that spares
you the need to navigate to the Google Web site.” [Jan 12]
Goodbye Safari
Goodbye Safari
12/31/2004 01:24 AMThat Mac users are also switching to Firefox says something very
good about the experience it offers. By Johnathon Williams
Surfin' Safari
Surfin' Safari
01/02/2004 08:41 PM"I love the tactics some people use when filing bugs. In particular
the tactic of saying something inflammatory in order to goad the
receiver of the bug into fixing it. You see this a lot in Bugzilla,
and also in reported Safari bugs."
Mac Tip: Safari Gets Tabbed
Mac Tip: Safari Gets Tabbed
09/25/2004 09:55 AMG4 Tech TV Sep 25 2004 2:17PM GMT
Safari 1.1, Part 2
Safari 1.1, Part 2
10/28/2003 11:08 PMResponding to some of the trackbacks from the previous blog
entry...
The first mentions a bug in 1.1, and the test page is found here. In Safari
post-Panther, the rendering is actually different (but still broken).
I'm not sure what the problem is at first glance, but I'll take a
look.
The second trackback asks for complete navigation of bookmarks from
the keyboard. Since that isn't part of WebCore, I can't comment.
Several trackbacks also ask about Safari 1.1 on Jaguar. As I've
mentioned in previous blog entries, I can't comment on future Safari
releases.
I can whet your appetite with more WebCore stuff that we've
implemented since Safari 1.1: small-caps support, fixes for
first-letter and text-transform (the ugly doubling text effect is
gone), fixes to first-line, and speed improvements to DHTML.
Use AIM Express with Safari
Use AIM Express with Safari
07/30/2004 10:29 AMIf you want to access your AOL Instant Messenger account at a computer
without iChat, AIM, or one of the various third party clients
installed, you can always use AIM Express. However, according to its
website, Safari isn't s...
Fonts in Safari
Fonts in Safari
03/20/2003 05:32 PMAn update on the issues raised
by John Gruber in his blog.
(1) Safari *is* using the wrong fonts for rendering to the screen.
Because of our use of lower-level APIs, we missed out on a font
substitution step that happens when rendering to the screen where the
bitmap font ends up getting chosen for rendering. This is a bug in
Safari, and we're looking into fixing it.
(2) The global OS AA setting is not being obeyed.
(3) Above and beyond the OS AA setting, AppKit also has hardcoded
rules at a higher level, e.g., don't AA Courier or Monaco. Again we
are missing these hardcoded rules.
I'll keep you updated as we work on solutions to these problems.
Thanks again, John, for the excellent analysis of Safari's font
handling.
Beyond the Safari Hype
Beyond the Safari Hype
03/20/2003 01:05 PMApple's new Safari Web browser has taken off faster than a brushfire
on the Serengeti Plain. Within 24 hours of its January 7th
introduction, Apple counted more than 300,000 downloads. But how many
people are actually using Safari for everyday Web browsing, and what
do Mac community gurus think of it?
Safari CSS Effects
Safari CSS Effects
04/24/2004 05:17 PM After spending weeks on end coding around the quirky demands of
today's browser space, occasionally it's nice to design for a
completely controlled environment. Mac OS X is proving more and more
useful the further I dig in, and...
Safari 1.3 Seeded
Safari 1.3 Seeded
06/29/2004 05:20 PM
With Safari 2.0 coming with Tiger in 2005, Apple is still working on
improvements in the current version of Safari. Safari 1.3 (v146) was
seeded to d...
New: Safari Magic 1.0
New: Safari Magic 1.0
07/20/2004 11:26 AMSafari Magic enhances the web browser with tools to selectively
collect, organize, and edit text, graphics, and pictures from multiple
web pages and non-contiguous sources.
XSLT in Safari
XSLT in Safari
08/15/2004 10:51 PMSome time ago we switched over to libxml in Safari for the
processing of XML (and XHTML) files. I'm happy to report that we now
have basic XSLT support working in Safari using libxslt. You can
style your XML using xml-stylesheet processing instructions.
I don't yet have a programmatic JS API working for transforming
documents, but that shouldn't be too difficult to add. What I really
need are XSLT test cases that use xml-stylesheet. Track back
or comment if you know of some good test cases online that I can use,
or just generally have suggestions to make regarding XSLT support.
Safari, 10.3.9, and third-party
add-ons...
Safari, 10.3.9, and third-party
add-ons...
04/18/2005 11:17 AMA number of people have written in either asking for help with a
10.3.9 Safari crash, or with hints to solve such crashes. So I thought
I'd just write one hint with the explanation of the cause and the easy
fix.
Basically, i...
"Safari 1.2 Released"
"Safari 1.2 Released"
02/11/2004 03:46 AMReport: Safari
Report: Safari
02/10/2004 11:51 AMReaders offer a tip about fixing Java install problems, much
discussion of browser performance, plus compatibility issues and
choosing between GIF and PNG files.
Safari 1.2 Details
Safari 1.2 Details
02/10/2004 10:33 AM
David Hyatt posts a detailed log of improvements that can be found in
Safari 1.2.
Changes cover LiveConnect, Downloads, Priting, Accessibility, CSS...
Report: Safari 1.2
Report: Safari 1.2
02/10/2004 02:41 AMWe have tips and discussion about performance, plus much more on the
new release.
Safari 1.2 Released
Safari 1.2 Released
02/10/2004 02:41 AMSafari 1.2 has been released for Panther (OS 10.3). Here are some
of the technical highlights:
LiveConnect - LiveConnect is now supported for Java applets,
allowing for bi-directional communication between Javascript and Java.
Many Java sites that didn't work in earlier versions of Safari will
now work properly in 1.2.
Personal Certificate Support - Personal certificates are now
supported, so sites that were previously inaccessible are now
available in the latest Safari.
keygen Implementation - The keygen element is now supported,
so you can now generate key pairs from e.g., VeriSign.
Full Keyboard Access - You can now tab to all controls (and
optionally links) on a page. There has been much confusion over this
feature, since the ability to tab to all controls honors the OS
setting.
In order to tab to popup menus, you need to go to your system
preferences, select the Keyboard and Mouse panel, and then select the
Keyboard tab. At the bottom of the tab is a checkbox next to the
words "Turn on full keyboard access." Check that box to enable full
keyboard access, and you'll find that you'll now be able to tab to
popups all over the operating system (including Safari).
Another complaint I've seen on forums was that you couldn't type
letters to have the popup jump directly to a selected item (e.g.,
typing "U" to jump to "United States"). Again, we obey the OS
behavior, which does allow this, but only after you hit the spacebar
when the control has the keyboard focus. Multi-letter typing is
supported to complete to a specific item. Try it. You'll like it.
:)
Improved Downloads - A download halted by the user or
stalled due to network troubles can now be resumed in the Download
Manager. You'll also find a number of other improvements to
downloads, including the ability to select individual downloads to
e.g., delete them, the ability to save images to specific locations
via the context menu, and the removal of the 4-connection limitation
when downloading while browsing.
Printing Improvements - The "huge margin" problem for
printing has been fixed, and Safari is also smarter now about scaling
the page when it contains long unwrappable lines. In addition, the
CSS2 page break properties are now supported (for values of "always")
as per the CSS2.1 Paged Media specification. The speed of printing
has been improved dramatically, and you can also now disable
backgrounds when printing.
International Domain Name Support - Safari 1.2 supports the
IDN standard, which allows for non-ASCII characters in host names.
RTL Improvements - Handling of RTL text has been improved
for better Hebrew, Arabic and Hindi support.
Accessibility Improvements - The title attribute is now
supported as a tooltip, and 1.2 also supports the accesskey attribute
for accessing specific objects in the Web page via the keyboard. In
addition, minimum font size is now supported and exposed in Safari's
preferences.
Mini Form Controls - Safari 1.2 now analyzes the font size
specified by a Web page for form controls and swaps in the mini and
small versions as needed. Sites like Travelocity will now render
properly with mini form controls in place.
XMLHTTPRequestObject - The XMLHttpRequestObject is now
supported, which means that those of you subscribed to Orkut can now rate your friends.
;)
CSS2 Table Support - Table support has been improved, with
border-spacing now fully supported, empty-cells supported, and border
collapsing supported.
DHTML Performance Improvements - Safari 1.2 is light years
ahead of 1.1 in terms of DHTML performance. When objects change size
or position, Safari 1.2 will only repaint the affected areas (whereas
older versions would repaint the entire visible area every time).
hover/active improvements - Safari 1.2 has a faster (and
more correct) implementation of :hover and :active, so it will no
longer get into "stuck hover" states or mistakenly put multiple
overlapping objects into :hover simultaneously.
Generated Content Support - 1.2 supports the positioning and
floating of generated content as per the CSS2.1 spec, and many bugs
have been fixed in generated content, particularly with first-letter
and first-line. First-letter is now fully dynamic, and first-line
styles will now be inherited properly into the descendants of the
line. Both styles will even work across nested block-level children
(something I believe that no other browser can yet do).
Marquee Support - All forms of marquees are supported, and
the behavior is designed to match Internet Explorer for windows. The
start() and stop() methods are also supported, so that marquee
animations can be paused and resumed. Safari supports marquees using
a special overflow value in conjunction with the CSS3 draft
properties, and so it's easy to disable the animation while still
allowing access to the content (all via a user stylesheet).
Small-caps Support - Safari 1.2 supports small-caps variants
for fonts. It does not support true variants but instead synthesizes
the font using the 70% heuristic employed by other browsers (like
Mozilla).
Stability - Many crashes and hangs have been addressed.
Performance - Safari has added smarts when transitioning
between pages (e.g., preserving the vertical scrollbar to avoid an
extra layout), so that pages load more quickly on fast networks.
This is just one example of several performance enhancements we made
to speed up browsing since 1.1.
Caching Improvements - Safari's WebCore cache was not
honoring expiration time, and this led to stale content remaining in
the cache. This issue has been addressed.
HTTPS Speed Improvements - HTTPS pages load more quickly in
Safari 1.2, thanks to bug fixes and improvements.
CSS Load Improvements - Safari no longer aggressively
fetches images specified in CSS files but instead waits until the
image is used in the Web page before loading it. This reduces the
load time on sites that use generic cross-site CSS files with lots of
rules that might never apply on many pages. (Translation: SprintPCS is fast now.)
Grok Description matches for CSS shakedown issues with Konquerer/Safari
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Bush versus Reagan (Iraqi versus
American)
Bush versus Reagan (Iraqi versus
American)
07/17/2004 11:22 AMA friend was complaining about Ronald Reagan yesterday, not
completely mollified by his death. What had Reagan done to
bother her, I asked? She was upset by Reagan's appointments to
the Supreme Court, by his inaction on AIDS, and a variety of
other domestic issues. How could she hate Reagan more than Bush?
"Bush is out there messing up foreign countries instead of our
own."
Despite not having voted for either man, I discovered a strong
personal preference for Reagan over Bush II. Reagan was an
American working on American problems. Maybe he didn't do as
good a job as we would have liked, but at least he was trying.
Bush, on the other hand, projects an image of spending all of his time
and energy thinking about Iraq and Iraqis. The only explanation
that makes sense is that Bush is actually an Iraqi. Who other
than an Iraqi would be so interested in Iraq? When W. is not
talking about Iraq he is often talking about Jesus so probably he is
an Assyrian Christian, one of the groups that lived in Iraq before the
Arab invasion (background<
/A>).
Perhaps Kerry and Edwards have a chance after all because they are
running against a foreigner.
[Note: there is some chance that Bush is Kuwaiti or Saudi
rather than Iraqi. The owners of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were
badly inconvenienced by Saddam. There was a New York Times
article right after the 1991 Gulf War where they talked about how the
Emir of Kuwait would marry a 13- or 14-year-old girl every Friday
night and then divorce her on Saturday and that this was the kind of
lifestyle that American troops were supporting by giving Kuwait back
to the Emir--you could understand why the Emir, even with $billions
in foreign bank accounts, was so anxious to have his country
back. Still, there were never too many Christians in Kuwait or
Saudi Arabia so evidence points back to W. being an Iraqi]
eMac Versus iMac Versus PowerBook
eMac Versus iMac Versus PowerBook
04/21/2004 06:37 PMBy Rob-ART Morgan, Bare Feats (via MyAppleMenu)
Google versus Yahoo versus MSN
Google versus Yahoo versus MSN
03/31/2005 09:13 AMHindustantimes.com - Thu Mar 31, 12:56 pm GMT
P versus NP
P versus NP
04/11/2005 12:05 AMOn Friday night, we were watching Numb3rs, and the math geek character
made a big deal out of the "P versus NP" question. Sean wanted to know
more about what he was talking about, so here's a couple of links...
Spy Versus Spy
Spy Versus Spy
06/15/2004 01:39 PMBruce Schneier: Breaking
Iranian Codes. If the Iranians knew that the U.S. knew, why
didn't they pretend not to know and feed the U.S. false information?
Or maybe they've been doing that for years, and the U.S. finally
figured out that the Iranians knew. Maybe the U.S. knew that the
Iranians knew, and are using the fact to discredit
Chalabi.
PC versus PC
PC versus PC
09/17/2004 04:34 AM
Once upon a time, the PC was pitted against the mainframe in the
tussle between freedom and control. Now it's PC versus PC. In
this sound clip (1 min 15 secs, mp3) from
yesterday's
conversatio
n with Ray Ozzie, we hear about an employee with two side-by-side
laptops. He does all his work on the home PC, because it has the
productivity tools he needs. Then he transfers the results to his
locked-down work PC by way of a USB thumbdrive.
...Intel 865/875 Versus 915/925
Intel 865/875 Versus 915/925
07/12/2004 09:04 AMGays versus God?
Gays versus God?
04/12/2004 08:39 AM
MillionForChrist.com?
Gays versus God? Looks like there's a race between
people who support Christ
and people who
support
same-sex marriages. They're both looking for a million
signatures. Conincidence? Any bets on who's gonna win?
AOL versus some guy on the Internet
AOL versus some guy on the Internet
03/17/2005 02:53 AMIs AOL watching you through AIM, and can they steal your soul? The
blogosphere says yes and AOL says no.
CBC versus Ann Coulter
CBC versus Ann Coulter
02/01/2005 09:59 PM
Ann Coulter and the facts on Vietnam Its
nice seeing Ann Coulter squirm. While being interviewed by
the CBC's Bob McKeown, Coulter displayed her lack of historical
knowledge on Canada's involvement (or lack of) in Vietnam. What's
even more telling is her inability or refusal to back down even when
she is dead wrong.
Here is the
video.
Red versus Blue
Red versus Blue
02/10/2004 02:53 AM The
Election Projection Website. A
semi-scientific
website that attempts to forecast the 2004 presidential election.
Via Newmark's
Door. XML Versus the Infoset
XML Versus the Infoset
11/20/2002 07:48 PMIn his latest Endpoints column Rich Salz opines about the differences
between XML specifications based on XML and those based on the XML
infoset.
SERP Locations #10 versus #11
SERP Locations #10 versus #11
01/06/2005 05:12 PMSome belive strongly that bot roi and click through ranks increase for
#11.
It's not about Old Media versus the
Pajamahideen
It's not about Old Media versus the
Pajamahideen
06/05/2005 11:36 PM
When conversations turn to the rivalry between Old Media and the
Pajamahideen, I
try to steer another course. Blogging, rightly understood, isn't going
to take down newspapers, magazines, and TV, it's going to energize
them. The adversarial rhetoric mostly just gets in the way.
...Napster versus Radio
Napster versus Radio
12/10/2003 03:03 PMDoc
says that Napster et al was "the market's correction for the
failure of mainstream radio not just to adapt to the Net, but even to
fulfill the missions it established for itself over the
decades....Napster is radio! It's about sharing record collections the
way the great radio stations of yesterdecade used to do, and today's
robotic commercial radio can't remember and can no longer even begin
to conceive."
I think that's a great idea, but I don't think that's what Napster was
about to a large degree. If it was, than the majority of songs
downloaded via Napster would not be the most popular songs played on
the radio. I don't know what the numbers say about that, but from what
I've heard before, they are. Napster may have been about sharing new
and interesting music that we otherwise wouldn't have heard if it were
designed differently. But the way it worked, you found stuff you knew
of (Hot Lists allowed you to discover things, but it wasn't core to
the application). And most people knew of stuff from "robotic
commercial radio." Napster was about getting that stuff in a more
conveneint (sometimes), more economical way.
Politics versus Technology
Politics versus Technology
12/31/2004 10:40 PMThis is my last post of the year.
It was painfully obvious during the
recording of today's Gillmor gang that creating a meta-identity
standard will be 2% technology and 98% politics.
It's already 2005 around most of the world by the time I post this
- so but as usual (as Steve Gillmor says) "I get the last word
in."
So I just wanna say to Dave Winer, Kim Cameron, Craig Burton, Phil
Windley, Drumkmond Reed - Papa Doc Searls and Mr. Steve "Dan's his
brother" Gillmor - that we CAN do this.
We can put Microsoft's past behind them - and use them to help us
build the mega meta momma backplane we talked about.
I really like Kim and he seems sincere and we can't blame him for
his employer's past transgressions. Just like we can't blame Scoble
either. Neither of them worked at Micreosoft during "those days" -
but they work there now - and it's incumbant
upon us to work with them - to help them change - from within.
As I
said yesterday I'd like to nominate Dick Hardt and his Sxip Networks technology to lead this
effort forward. Sxip can be a 'mini-backplane' of sorts - that can
then plug into Kim's mega meta momma backplane he's talking about. I
really think it's possible that 2005 can be the year that this all
comes together.
By meeting the requirements of the 7
Laws of Identity (can't wait to hear the final two - Kim) and by
balancing the needs of a centralized DNS with the pluralism that is
required for uptake - we can help bring the era of 'Social Computing'
to fruition (thanks Kim for that one.....)
Sxip Networks was designed for the type of KISS developers need to
support digital identity that can become pervasive. Sxip is beholden
to nobody but us. And I am not neholden to Sxip. I recieve no money
from Dick and company. I just dig the shit out of what they're
doing.
So it's a Ho Ho Ho and a three cheers mate (sorry Simon you didn't
make it) and here's to a brand new year - and a brand new round of
efforts at singing (in tune) "Kum Bah Yah" - my lord.
Samoyed versus bicycle
Samoyed versus bicycle
04/14/2005 07:49 PMLife with three Samoyeds can be unexpectedly eventful. Today
I walked Alex, Roxanne (his 1-year-old cousin, staying with me for one
week), and Samuel (the rescued 9-month-old from Norfolk) around
Harvard Square for 1.5 hours.On the way back to
the apartment I thought it would be safe to tie them up
outside a sandwich shop with Sammy near a bicycle. When I came
out with my sandwich the bike had been knocked over and he was chewing
on the plastic brake lever housing.
SCO Versus the Linux World
SCO Versus the Linux World
06/10/2004 08:01 AMWashington Post: Showdown With The Linux Gang. Working largely on
their own time, Linux devotees apply their collaborative model for
creating software, known as open source, to attack SCO and its case.
Dozens of online detectives comb corporate documents, analyze legal
filings and publish everything they can find about the company, its
finances, management and connections to Microsoft. One Web site
focused exclusively on the case, known as Groklaw, was started by a
paralegal named Pamela Jones and now has roughly 5,000 contributors.
Though it is ardently pro-Linux, the site has grown into such an
exhaustive archive of software history and law that attorneys on both
sides use it as a resource. "Our international membership means SCO
can't do anything anywhere on the planet without someone seeing it and
telling on them," Jones said in an e-mail interview.
This may be the best roundup of the SCO case by any
mainstream newspaper. Note the tip of the hat to
Groklaw, which is clearly the single
best repository of information about the case.
Groklaw is in my
book
as a particularly fine example of grassroots journalism, where people
at the edges of the networks are feeding data back into the middle and
then back out to the edges. This is a powerful trend. I'm glad to see
it used for such excellent purposes in this situation.
Community News: PHP Versus ASP (Again?)
Community News: PHP Versus ASP (Again?)
11/03/2003 10:05 AMHarry Fuecks wrote in to tells us about a display of Microsoft's
"efforts" to come to some sort of harmony with the PHP community - a
PHP to ASP converter.
Bloggers versus journalists
Bloggers versus journalists
07/26/2004 07:47 PM
I think the DNC could turn into a key moment in the discussion
about bloggers versus journalists. I've generally been rather low-key
on this issue, taking a position that bloggers and mass media should
work together and that bloggers and professional journalists had
different strengths and weaknesses. I am getting a sense that an
increasing number of professional journalists are beginning to feel
threatened or at least seem to be trying to belittle bloggers as a
source of news.
Jeff
Jarvis addresses this question today by quoting Tom Rosenstiel on
the question, what is a journalist?
Tom Rosenstiel - Boston Globe
- A journalist tries to tell the literal truth and get the facts
right, does not pass along rumors, engages in verifying, and makes
that verification process as transparent as possible.
- A journalist's goal is to inspire public discussion, not to help one
side win or lose. One who tries to do the latter is an activist.
- Neutrality is not a core principle of journalism. But the commitment
to facts, to public consideration, and to independence from faction,
is.
- A journalist's loyalty to his or her audience, even above employer,
is paramount.
Under this definition, a lot of what we are
calling media or press is not journalism and I DARE any professional
journalist to try to defend any big media company of sticking to the
definition above without fail.
I've been interviewing a lot of professional journalists about
"What is journalism? What makes a good journalist?" They usually talk
about vetting sources, portraying things accurately, and other things
that any blogger who is used to being ripped to shreds in comments by
their readers on their blog do as second nature. My conclusion is that
much of good journalism is just common sense, and I would even assert
that compared to journalists who don't write in their name, have
fact-check desks to do their fact-checking and editors to fix their
grammar, bloggers are much more accountable and have to take it in the
face compared to their anonymous counterparts in the mass media.
Is mass media more rigorous than blogs? Remember the "Rumsfeld bans phone cameras" story that UPI and
AFP ran and all the media picked up?
Xeni at Boing Boing called the defense department and debunked the
story and I updated my entry as a lot of the mass media were still
going to press with the story. Did they print any corrections? I
didn't see any. And this isn't an isolated incident. I've seen many
cases where blogs have fact-checked and vetted stories that the media
have just passed over.
I'm not blaming the mass media for their lack of ability be as
nibble as blogs, but characterizing bloggers as a bunch of amateurs
with no news value is really silly. Particularly annoying are the
articles that seem to be picking a fight with the blogs. Maybe as
Mahatma Ghandi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win." Dan,
maybe you and "We the Media" better get over hear before the real
fighting starts.
As always, I like David Weinberger's. perspective on this.
David
Weinberger
For example, after the breakfast, the bloggers were
swarmed by the media. "You know one difference between you and us,"
said a friendly guy from NPR, "We don't applaud for the speakers."
But, heck, it was Howard Dean and I'll be damned if I'm not going to
stand and clap for him.
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Boating versus Flying?
Boating versus Flying?
07/11/2004 11:55 PMMy trip to Maryland included a cruise in the Chesapeake Bay on my
brother's sailboat. Afterwards I encountered an administrator
from Howard University medical school ("the oldest black med school in
the country") who said that he was trying to figure out whether to
take up boating or flying as a weekend activity. Boating seems
like a more sociable activity. Everyone with a boat in the
Washington, DC area heads east toward the Bay on Friday evening or
Saturday morning (those government jobs are fantastic but they result
in terrible beach traffic jams because nobody ever has to work on
a weekend). The marina is packed with boats and people, some of
whom are hanging out on their boats without even bothering to leave
the dock. Once on the water there are dozens of boats within
sight at all times and the captain must exercise constant vigilance to
avoid colliding with a fellow weekend enthusiast. If one's boat
is equipped with a VHF radio one is required to monitor Channel 16 at
all times. This channel is a non-stop chatter of hailing and
emergency messages.
The drive to a general aviation airport, by contrast, is usually
free of traffic. Airplanes are big and need to be spaced apart
from each other. Nobody wants to hang out inside his tiny Cirrus
or Piper unless the plane is about to depart on a trip. You're
likely to run into someone you know at the airport but not likely to
run into any particular friend. One in the air and above the
traffic pattern altitude you're unlikely to see more than a handful of
airplanes even on a 300-mile trip. Until September 11th there
was seldom a need to monitor a radio frequency for a trip in clear
weather and even in these times of paranoia and strife there might
only be one transmission on 121.5, the emergency frequency, every 10
minutes.
Flying seems like a better way to keep mentally young. You
are challenging yourself to think and react quickly and rationally
despite a sometimes frightening environment. I ran into a former
MIT professor at the helicopter school in Nashua, NH. He is 69
years old, has been flying airplanes for years, and is now taking
up helicopters with the intention of buying a Robinson R44 (on my wishlist of
airplanes). I was shocked when he said that he was 69
because he doesn't seem older than 50.
Thoughts from those who are both boaters and pilots?
Microsoft Versus the Europeans
Microsoft Versus the Europeans
11/12/2003 01:07 PMMicrosoft Corp. spent years trying to persuade the U.S. court system
it was not the 800-pound gorilla that the Justice Department made it
out to be. Now it's giving a command performance to European
regulators. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant begins hearings
today in Brussels to persuade the European Commission that the Windows
operating system and its, shall we say, aggressive business practices
are no threat to competition in the software industry. The company
will argue that the European antitrust complaint "focuses unfairly on
the company and disregards its intellectual property rights and
consumers' demands. In a showpiece hearing, the company will seek to
appeal beyond the staff of Mario Monti, competition commissioner, to
other parts of the European Commission and national regulatory
agencies in the hope they might rein back the Commission," The
Financial Times reported.
Wikipedia versus Britannica
Wikipedia versus Britannica
09/07/2004 10:55 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Ed Felten's doing some empirical comparisons of the online Britannica
versus Wikipedia, and Wikipedia's doing pretty good!
Virtual memory: Wikipedia has a pretty good entry; Britannica has no
entry for virtual memory, and doesn't appear to discuss the concept
elsewhere, either. Verdict: advantage Wikipedia.
Public-key cryptography: Good, accurate entries in both. Verdict:
toss-up.
Microsoft antitrust case: Britannica has only two sentences, saying
that Judge Jackson ruled against Microsoft and ordered a breakup, and
that the Court of Appeals overturned the breakup but agreed that
Microsoft had broken the law. That's correct, but it leaves out the
settlement. Wikipedia's entry is much longer but error-prone. Verdict:
big advantage to Britannica.
Overall verdict: Wikipedia's advantage is in having more, longer, and
more current entries. If it weren't for the Microsoft-case entry,
Wikipedia would have been the winner hands down. Britannica's
advantage is in having lower variance in the quality of its entries.
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Technology Versus Terrorism
Technology Versus Terrorism
03/20/2003 01:05 PMAs we arrive at the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on
America,
NewsFactor takes an in-depth look at how satellite technology may be
used to
protect our country against future terrorism. In this series, Datacomm
Research president Ira Brodsky analyzes how technology can be used to
combat terror.
Airplane versus Minivan
Airplane versus Minivan
06/22/2005 02:23 AMAs I plan and pack up for Alaska I have had a couple of offers from
guys who wanted to come with me from Boston to Anchorage (we leave
Wednesday). It turns out that the Cirrus SR20 is not that
practical for long trips unless you are either very thin or totally
friendless.Full fuel is necessary for some of the long legs in
the remote regions of Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories
where airports are widely separated and airports that sell fuel are
uncommon--mostly you only get fuel at airports that are accessible by
road or ship. With full fuel my old Diamond Star would carry 570
pounds. The Cirrus has a longer range but the penalty is that it
only holds 520 pounds fully fueled and its performance at gross weight
is marginal on warm days or at high elevations. You need a lot
of runway and to make sure that you don't need to outclimb any
terrain.
The airplane isn't any fun without Alex in the back seat.
Alex needs his Science Diet Nature's Best, which isn't widely
available, plus some other accessories. Dog+food is about 100
lbs. total. The plane needs a towbar, canopy cover, and tie-down
ropes at 20 lbs. For navigation one needs paper charts and
approach plates for a total of at least 20 lbs. Survival
equipment is required by statute (until 2000 or so the kit was
required include a gun and ammunition) and a full tent, mattress pad,
and sleeping bag is really a good idea for forced landings as well as
impromptu camping when hotels are full or not dog-friendly.
That's about 35 lbs. together. You want some electronics in the
airplane, such as headsets, EPIRB (the emergency locator transmitter
that Cirrus includes in the airframe is an ancient 121.5 MHz design,
which is not very effective for getting rescued), and maybe a little
Iridium phone. That's maybe 10 lbs. put together. If I
want to take a camera and some clothing and my 195 lb. carcass it
looks as though I will have only about 100 lbs. left over for a human
passenger. If I want to take a little folding bike that comes
down to 70 lbs. spare capacity.
How does a minivan compare? A 2005 Toyota Sienna has a "curb
weight" of 4120 lbs., 2000 lbs. more than the Cirrus. Its gross
vehicle weight is 5690 for a "payload" of 1570 (the curb
weight includes full fuel).
rc3.org | Labels versus folders
rc3.org | Labels versus folders
06/19/2004 04:32 PMthe ascendance of labels over folders .. better and more completely ..
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Europe versus America
Europe versus America
06/21/2004 09:27 AMthe EU vs. the US .. Swedish
report
timbro.se/bokhandel/pdf/9175665646.pdf
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OSX Spotlight versus Gnome BEST
OSX Spotlight versus Gnome BEST
06/29/2004 06:54 PM CSS shakedown issues with Konquerer/Safari
