BTW, as far as I know, Safari was the first browser to render the Acid 2 test accurately, the first one to have an official release that could render it accurately
You're wrong. Opera passed it first. On top of that, Safari didn't disable scrollbars until almost a year after they first claimed to pass it (disabling scrollbars is required by the Acid2 test).
How is this insightful? Firefox has been working on Acid2 compliance for a while now.. it required some big changes to gecko, so they told us it wouldn't happen until FF3.
They go beyond the minimum requirements with Webkit as well, interacting with the Konquerer team and providing packages in a more easily digestible and better documented fashion than they need to.
Only after the konq team raised holy hell about getting an 11 meg undocumented patch. It didn't look good for Apple, and they could no longer claim to "play well with open source".
You can just see the average clueless consumer saying 'Why get HD DVD when Blockies only stocks Blu Ray'
I see the average consumer going to Walmart, seeing HD-DVD players for $299, and Blu-Ray for $599 and going with HD-DVD.. then sticking with just renting DVDs.
In fact, I saw that the other day, some lady was at blockbuster asking the front desk if they "rented HDs", they asked "Do you mean blu-ray?" and she said "no, HD".. then they said they don't rent either one.
Well, Safari on my Mac renders the Acid 2 test correctly, whereas Firefox 2 does not. So, Firefox might support a lot of standards, but apparently it has some CSS issues.
The Acid2 test tests a tiny tiny subset of CSS. That's it. Firefox supports more CSS3 than Safari. Firefox supports more CSS selectors than Safari.
I can't really think of the last page I went to that didn't work in Safari.
How about Google Docs? Safari's designmode support is crap... that's why it's not supported by Google Docs.
Safari's CSS support is as bad as IE's. Things like text-transform and text-variant don't work. The:checked pseudo-selector doesn't work.
Labels are useless in Safari. Attach a label to a checkbox and in IE/FF/Opera clicking on the label is the same as clicking on the checkbox. Not so with Safari.
I'd like to point out that TFA mentions that this whale was killed with an mechanically-launched explosive projectile. That's about as traditional as a Lakota shooting a buffalo with an AK-47.
That tradition is at least 100 years old, since the 1800's weapon was a mechanically-launched explosive projectile as well.
Microsoft (or more likely the BSA) goes to places suspected of counterfeiting. They go to an assortment of vendors and buy Vista. Then they discover which vendor is selling thousands of copies of counterfeit Vista and call the police.
I play UT, RtCW, and Flight Sim X on my MacBook Pro just fine.
Flight Sim X requires a 1 ghz machine with 256 megs of ram and a 32 meg dx9 card. A 5 year old PC could run it. RtCW came out in 2001. UT came out in 1999.
RtCW was available on the PS2, and UT was available on the dreamcast and ps2. Saying your macbook pro is good enough to play ps2 games isn't exactly impressive.
Sweet Code me up a NLE video editor in Ajax. And yes, having a NLE on the iPhone could be a killer app. Imagine, cheezy bluetooth qvga camcorder, edit in phone, post to youtube.
That's actually not out of reach. I wrote an ajax app that gives you an NLE-like interface to pick a frame out of a flv to use as a thumbnail. Used mplayer to pull out 10 frames at a time.
It'd be easier with flash though.. since you can seek directly to a specific frame in flash.
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If that were true, we wouldn't need an SDK to make iPhone apps... we could just make an app in xcode and copy it over and it would work.
I'm going to agree with you. They had to have found something wrong with the very core of the game.
Their fiscal year ends in April 09. So something big had to go wrong so that 9 months isn't enough time to fix it.
You're wrong. Opera passed it first. On top of that, Safari didn't disable scrollbars until almost a year after they first claimed to pass it (disabling scrollbars is required by the Acid2 test).
How is this insightful? Firefox has been working on Acid2 compliance for a while now.. it required some big changes to gecko, so they told us it wouldn't happen until FF3.
g htly/latest-trunk/
Go here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ni
Download the Firefox 3.0 Alpha (which is far more stable than Safari 3 beta), and check for yourself.. passes Acid2 with flying colors.
That wouldn't be the first time that a beta was available for version of OSX that the final version didn't support.
For example, X11 beta ran on Jaguar, but the official version of X11 required you to upgrade to Panther.
Only after the konq team raised holy hell about getting an 11 meg undocumented patch. It didn't look good for Apple, and they could no longer claim to "play well with open source".
"Roughly". The 30 gig iPod is 69.3 cubic centimeters. The iPhone is 81.4
The iPhone is 20% larger than the iPod.
Actually, it's physically larger than your pocket. It's huge.
I see the average consumer going to Walmart, seeing HD-DVD players for $299, and Blu-Ray for $599 and going with HD-DVD.. then sticking with just renting DVDs.
In fact, I saw that the other day, some lady was at blockbuster asking the front desk if they "rented HDs", they asked "Do you mean blu-ray?" and she said "no, HD".. then they said they don't rent either one.
Also, if Safari for Windows was for iPhone development, it wouldn't have the debug menu turned off by default.
How could it be used for development when there isn't even a javascript console available by default?
You do know that Safari for Windows requires SSE, right?
The Acid2 test tests a tiny tiny subset of CSS. That's it. Firefox supports more CSS3 than Safari. Firefox supports more CSS selectors than Safari.
How about Google Docs?
Safari's designmode support is crap... that's why it's not supported by Google Docs.
Safari's CSS support is as bad as IE's. Things like text-transform and text-variant don't work. The
Labels are useless in Safari. Attach a label to a checkbox and in IE/FF/Opera clicking on the label is the same as clicking on the checkbox. Not so with Safari.
Probably because HD-DVD/Bluray rentals are more expensive than DVD rentals. That and blockbuster and friends don't even carry HD-DVD/Bluray rentals.
Well, two of those "imminent" games are going to be on the 360 as well. The PS3 has to do BETTER than the 360... it can't just be "as good".
It's actually every 5 years, not every year. I don't know of any whale attacks, but over the past 5 years, 2500 people have been killed by elephants.
That tradition is at least 100 years old, since the 1800's weapon was a mechanically-launched explosive projectile as well.
That'd be weird, considering how many apostles were fishermen.
So you're actually advocating that they use a method that most likely will leave the whale with a harpoon sticking out of it for 100 years?
I'd think given a choice you'd want them to hunt with whatever would cause the least amount of pain to the animal.
No, it's more like this:
Microsoft (or more likely the BSA) goes to places suspected of counterfeiting. They go to an assortment of vendors and buy Vista. Then they discover which vendor is selling thousands of copies of counterfeit Vista and call the police.
Customers don't enter into it.
Oooh look, a statistic pulled out of thin air! It's magic!
The one reporter I've seen who experienced WGA first hand actually found out that the shrinkwrapped copy he had purchased was counterfeit.
Interestingly, Marathon is coming to xbox live arcade.
Flight Sim X requires a 1 ghz machine with 256 megs of ram and a 32 meg dx9 card. A 5 year old PC could run it. RtCW came out in 2001. UT came out in 1999.
RtCW was available on the PS2, and UT was available on the dreamcast and ps2. Saying your macbook pro is good enough to play ps2 games isn't exactly impressive.
Except that it happened back before firefox, and before gecko got a complete rewrite.
That's actually not out of reach. I wrote an ajax app that gives you an NLE-like interface to pick a frame out of a flv to use as a thumbnail. Used mplayer to pull out 10 frames at a time.
It'd be easier with flash though.. since you can seek directly to a specific frame in flash.