the iPhone has a popup onscreen keyboard for text input. One of apple's ads ("calamari") shows it in use. If it's treated as an alternate input device, as far as javascript is concerned, it is a keyboard (ie, onkeydown, onkeyup, onkeypress) and google suggest etc will work. OTOH, they may be buffering the text and only putting it into a field after you're all done typing. The screen real estate might make an auto-suggest list impractical.
What makes you think Cocoa is involved? Stringing through the safari executable, there are a couple interesting symbols (NSWindow, NSPopupButton), but no indications of the objective C runtime or anything else cocoa like. The Core Foundation kit, while modeled on the Cocoa Foundation Kit, is written in C (and it's also been open source and available for Windows and Linux, etc for a while). Webkit (also open source) is written in C/C++.
this is the sort of thing they said their philanthropic foundation would invest in. It's really got nothing to do with managing the electric grid flow of information.
I can't be the only one that finds classic/vintage cars beautiful. And I can't be the only one who thinks recent car designs are insipid. Yes, they're more reliable, the interiors are nicer, but why does the outside look like automobile equivalent of hospital food? Aerodynamics be damned! Does anybody think a 2007 corvette looks nicer than a 1960s model? Or a 2007 mustang looks nicer than a 1960s model? (And just look at it before the last redesign).
Actually, it is. Their objective is to make a profit. That means they need to provide better service, selection, and/or lower prices than competing businesses. Go wait at the DMV for a while and then tell me how much better altruistic government service is.
Donald Knuth wrote the book on computer fonts and typography. You can disagree with him if you want, but the Apple approach is inline with his research.
I hate to admit it, but john Dvorak had an interesting theory[1]. Google pays the mozilla foundation $50 million/year or so for redirecting searches their way. I believe Google also had a deal with Opera (the latest version of Opera seems to default to yahoo, though). Is google paying Apple for Safari searches? If so, a windows port could bring in $10 million/year easily, enough to pay for the port and subsidize continued development.
Actually, he had one interesting sentence, which I'm expanding on. The rest was lunacy.
Really? Let's look at the facts. The last big first amendment issue the supreme court looked at was the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. In a 5-4 decision, the supreme court decided that it was ok to abridge the first amendment.
Who were the 5 first amendment haters? Breyer, Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, and Ginsburg, the 4 liberal, 1 wishy washy jurists.
Justice Thomas (perhaps you consider him extreme right leaning?) dissented, calling it the "most significant abridgment of the freedoms of speech and association since the Civil War."
Other predictions: such predicaments happen more often to Arabs, Muslims, minorities, and members of the ACLU
Bullshit. DHS goes out of it's way to not do profiling. Not just ethnic profiling, but common sense profiling (like an old woman in a walker probably doesn't need a strip search). Israel doesn't have problems with airplane hijackers because their TSA counterparts check based on instinct/gut feelings/profiling rather than every 20th person.
Don't forget the federal fuel tax which gets redistributed back to the states (to pay for important transportation needs like whale museums and bridges to nowhere).
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the iPhone has a popup onscreen keyboard for text input. One of apple's ads ("calamari") shows it in use. If it's treated as an alternate input device, as far as javascript is concerned, it is a keyboard (ie, onkeydown, onkeyup, onkeypress) and google suggest etc will work. OTOH, they may be buffering the text and only putting it into a field after you're all done typing. The screen real estate might make an auto-suggest list impractical.
onmouse and :hover can be nice eye candy, but if a website doesn't work without them (and doesn't degrade nicely), maybe it's broken.
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What makes you think Cocoa is involved? Stringing through the safari executable, there are a couple interesting symbols (NSWindow, NSPopupButton), but no indications of the objective C runtime or anything else cocoa like. The Core Foundation kit, while modeled on the Cocoa Foundation Kit, is written in C (and it's also been open source and available for Windows and Linux, etc for a while). Webkit (also open source) is written in C/C++.
this is the sort of thing they said their philanthropic foundation would invest in. It's really got nothing to do with managing the electric grid flow of information.
Just remember the last time slashdot had a PT Cruiser contest....
Agree? Disagree?
what good is the freedom to recompile your kernel if asking for the source code is an executable offense?
I think Jimmy Carter (the George Bush of the 70s) rescinded it when he gave the panama canal to the ChiComs.
Actually, it is. Their objective is to make a profit. That means they need to provide better service, selection, and/or lower prices than competing businesses. Go wait at the DMV for a while and then tell me how much better altruistic government service is.
Human breeding is already legal, even if you can't get in on the action.
cleartype is only intended for LCD monitors. (although, having tried it on a CRT, I think it was a slight improvement).
Donald Knuth wrote the book on computer fonts and typography. You can disagree with him if you want, but the Apple approach is inline with his research.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .google.com - 51 errors on their minimal home page. What were you saying about standards?
Actually, they do have a special deal with Mozilla.
obviously skewed statistics from a popular site I know of:
firefox: 61% .5%
IE: 20%
unknown: 7%
safari: 5%
mozilla: 3%
opera: 2%
konquorer:
netscape/galeon/camino: ~0%
And by OS:
Windows: 64%
Macintosh: 15%
Linux: 12%
Unknown: 8%
Solaris: 1%
Opera doesn't have a native look and feel on any platform. Firefox doesn't have a native look and feel on OS X.
I hate to admit it, but john Dvorak had an interesting theory[1]. Google pays the mozilla foundation $50 million/year or so for redirecting searches their way. I believe Google also had a deal with Opera (the latest version of Opera seems to default to yahoo, though). Is google paying Apple for Safari searches? If so, a windows port could bring in $10 million/year easily, enough to pay for the port and subsidize continued development.
Really? Let's look at the facts. The last big first amendment issue the supreme court looked at was the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. In a 5-4 decision, the supreme court decided that it was ok to abridge the first amendment.
Who were the 5 first amendment haters? Breyer, Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, and Ginsburg, the 4 liberal, 1 wishy washy jurists.
Justice Thomas (perhaps you consider him extreme right leaning?) dissented, calling it the "most significant abridgment of the freedoms of speech and association since the Civil War."
Who do you agree with?
Bullshit. DHS goes out of it's way to not do profiling. Not just ethnic profiling, but common sense profiling (like an old woman in a walker probably doesn't need a strip search). Israel doesn't have problems with airplane hijackers because their TSA counterparts check based on instinct/gut feelings/profiling rather than every 20th person.
I don't want to fuck that bitch while she's on the rag.
Apple needs to support x86, PPC, and ARM (iPhone, iPod).
Don't forget the federal fuel tax which gets redistributed back to the states (to pay for important transportation needs like whale museums and bridges to nowhere).
and if you drive an electric car?
Core Foundation (lite) is (and has been) Open Source.