RasterWeb!

I know, I’ve talked about tabs enough, right? Wrong… See, my computing experience is all about the tabs.

For browsing, it’s Mozilla, and I suppose if I only used Mac OS X I might be in the Chimera fan club. When it comes to text it’s jEdit which also does the tab thing, and does it quite well. And ever since iTerm came out I’ve come one step closer to tab nerdvana which is the highest state of tabbed interface computing that cam be reached. Sure the Finder isn’t tabbed, well, not yet anyway, but you get my drift.

Luckily jEdit is quite customizable, so picking the keys to switch between tabs was easy. I like the left and right arrow keys, which in Mozilla don’t move you between tabs, but work as the back and forward buttons do. In iTerm, it’s easy to customize the keys used by editing the nib file in Interface Builder and tweaking it. Those nib files and Interface Builder bring back the old ResEdit days for many apps…

So Mozilla, jEdit, and iTerm are my main applications. They’re the first three icons on the dock, and they’re almost always running. You can see why the tabbed thing is kind of important to me.

If I’m elected, I promise tabbed applications for everyone!

There’s a jEdit Headlines Plugin. It allows you to view the content of any RSS, RDF, or XML data feed on the net within jEdit.

jEdit is one of those everything applications, where if there isn’t a plugin that does what you want, you just haven’t waited long enough…

Of course you could always try to invoke the LazyWeb if you get impatient…

After reading various people’s various opinions on what Safari is lacking, I present to you the top ten Safari feature requests:

1. Tabbed browsing
2. Tabbed browsing
3. Tabbed browsing
4. Tabbed browsing
5. Tabbed browsing
6. Tabbed browsing
7. Tabbed browsing
8. Tabbed browsing
9. Tabbed browsing
10. Make it faster

I must admit, I was a bit surprised by that last one, I thought for sure some mention of Gecko, or Inline SVG, or maybe even Tabbed browsing, but hey, there’s just no pleasing some people…

Apple has died more times than that kid from South Park. Oh, wait, they haven’t died yet, it’s just been reported that they will die real soon now for the past 2 and a half decades…

According to this NewsFactor/OSOpinion’s article:

…the company’s market share has declined in each of the last five years…
If the decline … continues, it is very likely that Linux will take the number two spot in the desktop OS market from Mac by the middle of 2003

Of course! That’s why we see Windows, Linux, and *BSD users so interested in switching to Mac OS X. People freakin’ love Apple. they love Apple more than their relatives and pets. They really love Apple more than Microsoft. These people will continue to support Apple. Steve Jobs knows this, he’s no dummy. If he can’t keep Apple afloat based on that, then he’s not even trying.

Apple wants to boost revenue from software, but right now, every Mac system is very likely to be providing revenue for a Microsoft Office product and Internet browser…

Huh? How much revenue is Microsoft making off of their Internet browser? I mean, they’re sharing all the profits with Spyglass right? As I’ve said before, I’ve own many Macs, and never personally purchased any Microsoft software.

Apple’s new web browser Safari, is mentioned on a zillion sites, here’s what I’ve got to say.

One issue people bring up is that Apple choose to use KHTML rather than Gecko. Personally I’d rather have seen Gecko used, but I’m assuming Apple went with KHTML because it was much smaller. Smaller in the size of the code, and smaller in the number of developers. In this case anyway, smaller equals faster. (That’s my thought. Read into it what you will about how Apple handles it’s open source relations.)

Apple wanted a fast browser, especially after that hoo-ha last year with the reports that web browsing on new iMacs was slow, slow, slow…

Look, Mac OS X is slow in certain ways. I think we all know that. It’s a price I’m willing to pay. That’s coming from someone who daily uses a 400mhz G4 though, you 1ghz Mac owners with 1 gig of RAM might not agree. Well, you probably do agree, but won’t admit it.

Mozilla on Mac OS X? Well, on the Mac I use at work, it’s slow. As I said, that’s ok. I can live with it. I’m hooked on Mozilla’s features. Tabbed browsing is a must. I just can’t use a browser for anything more than testing unless it’s got tabbed browsing. I know Chimera does, and Mac people seem to like it, but I need Mail and News, since I don’t ever want to launch Classic, especially just to use Outlook. Add that to the fact that on occasion I use Windows or Linux, and I really prefer to use the same browser, with the same features everywhere… Mozilla is a geek’s web browser, a web developer’s web browser, while Safari is a consumer’s web browser, just like Netscape’s browser.

Now, Safari is still beta, and it looks like Apple wants feedback, and oh boy are they getting it. The blogosphere (note, this is most likely the first time I’ve used the term ‘blogosphere’ I apologize for that) is in full effect. I’m guessing there’s a team at Apple reading a zillion weblogs today. Well, I’m hoping there is. I’ve got (some) faith in Apple to try to do the right thing, and be a good web browsing verdor-citizen, and get Safari up to snuff with respect to standards and the like. If you’ve been following Apple for the past few years, you know this is how they work. Release something, get feedback, respond to some of the feedback with some changes, and release again. It’s an infinite loop.

Side note: This site looks OK in Safari, which isn’t a huge surprise, as it looked OK in Konqueror, and I’m not pushing the XHTML or CSS to the extreme as some people are…