Archive for June, 2007
iPhoney Testing
Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone ?
Check out iPhoney: iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs.
Confidence In Congress At 14% - Where’s The Recall Button?
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low… what a shock. Failing a constituency that wanted troops home from Iraq and led by a worthless, corrupt, pork-barrel goddess this batch of nitwits makes depression-era legislators look like champs. This from a progressive, pro-gressive…the opposite of what’s in power today. The back-biting, over-spending, partisan bulls&*t has got to stop. Now. 86% of us think so, simple math folks, although I imagine Ms. Pelosi will need to fly home and crunch those kind numbers with her consultants.
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COO’s Like Pie Charts, But Only When They Get a Slice
In Scott McNulty’s latest TUAW post he shares anti-Safari leanings with Mozilla’s COO John Lilly. Both seem to focus on two things, 1) that many browser-options make the web a far better place and 2) that Safari is as awful as IE because it’s made by the maker of an OS.
Hmmmm, I take issue with both of these point. As a developer I have nothing fundamentally against Firefox, I think they’ve worked to embrace standards and have been successful at pushing users away from IE, but I disagree that more browsers make the web a better place, I think the more browsers squabble for market share (basically IE’s leavings) the tougher it makes things for developers and users. I’m sure John’s view of the world would change if the pie chart had FF as the Pac-Man eating IE, but that’s not the case. Here’s the truth…Firefox has been good for the web, but because of what it is and how’s it has come together. That doesn’t mean we need more browsers.
As for the second point, c’mon easy on the hyperbole guys. I don’t see how John (and Scot echoed) can say that Safari and IE are the same level of evil because they are made by OS developers, hogwash. IE was beyond embedded into the OS, it was within the fabric of the OS. Webkit certainly plays a role in elements of the mac OS, but you can easily remove Safari and go about your merry way. Safari is being pushed as an alternative, to which browser is up to you as a user. Frankly the comparison is short-sighted. Apple is and should be building the best possible solutions to its users problems, part of that strategy is a web platform that they can control. Why? Performance, stability, connectivity, interop, etc. More power to them.
Here’s the key, Firefox is worried because it’s another choice, not because it might magically someday remove choice…they are concerned that set of geeks and geeks-in-laws that have chosen or ben coerced into leaving IE for Firefox may revisit that decision and go Safari. They are concerned of the pressure it puts on them to innovate and manage expectations, there’s another player that is ambitious, motivated, funded and worst off for Firefox…cross-platform and backed by fanatics. Apple has the marketing and innovation to keep Firefox on their heels, IE be damned. See here’s the thing, if your IT folks at work don’t let you have Firefox you ain’t getting Safari. So the only Windows people moving to Safari already have the choice…and ability to make a switch.
This post fell apart, I’ve got no time to edit :) Take from it what you will. Firefox is a cool product, they’ve done good things for the web. They just need to own up to the reality that they aren’t the only ones that can take on IE and if they don’t keep building good stuff (and work on marketing) they might get lost in the shuffle.
Why all the craziness…Slide #2
Skitch-ified
I’ve been drooling over skitch for quite a while now, and thanks to Colin I can finally check it out. Rock.
When Is The Right Time To Leave America?
Looks like it might be time to polish up that passport and call some friends in Canada…
More Americans accept theory of creationism than evolution according to the latest Gallup polling. WHat the hell is going on? Have Fox news and other shitty media outlets pushed people so far to the cynical end of the spectrum that doubting science is a reasonable exercise? Craziness. Absolute craziness. To me saying you believe in creationism doesn’t necessarily mean that you don’t believe in evolution, the two are not mutually exclusive, but these polls show that not only are people saying they believe in creationism but that they DON’T believe in evolution. Wow. Apparently science just isn’t good enough anymore.
The line forms here, no pushing, let’s just get the hell out of here.
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