RasterWeb!

I think Textile is a good idea. By that I mean I think creating easy to use text formatting rules is a good idea.

So this weekend I worked on implementing some of the ideas into a tool I’m working on. So far I’ve got the basics of paragraphs, blockquotes, headings, bold (strong) and italic (emphasis) working. I probably would have gotten more done if I hadn’t been double processing the text for 20 minutes. Argh…

At a minimum, I still need to get numeric and bulleted lists working. The other stuff is nice but not critical. Yet.

Of course mine is ugly-hacked perl code, not any sort of elegant well-designed, well-thought out masterpiece. That’s ok for now. That might even be ok for the future. We’ll see won’t we? Hmmm?

According to Apple Safari has been downloaded more than 500,000 times.

Since Tuesday.

Now that’s what I call a niche!

Philip Schiller says Mac users have gone wild over Safari. In reality I’d say Mac users, and web developers, are curious about Safari.

And I don’t think having Google search capabilities integrated directly into the toolbar is an innovative feature. I’ve been able to do this in Mozilla for a long time.

Well, it is a press release, so I’ll cut them some slack.

I sure do like that rendezvous aware feature though…

mod_rendezvous rocks…

Up and running in less time that it took to download it. And it gets a big plus for being from the home state…

People keep saying Safari is the fastest browser on Mac OS X. I’ve heard at least one person say that Apple wants it to be the fastest browser in the world. I believe Opera thinks they have the fastest browser in the world. I’m assuming they are all refering to a ‘web browser’ and in fact, I’d go further and say I’m assuming they mean ‘graphical web browser’ because last time I checked Lynx still smokes ’em all in speed tests…

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!