Usually I feature a song here both because it has that somewhat ethereal quality that I like the sound of it but also because some line, or some even just some words, of the lyrics particularly resonate with me. I’ve taken to naming the post in question with that line rather than with the song title. Glorious by Andreas Johnson has no such line for me to pick, but the joy I feel simply from the sound of this track is enough. I think this might feature as one of my top all-time tracks.
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
In a world wide web landscape where the choice of OS, browser, and engine are becoming more and more open and free the importance of standards in the way websites are written and displayed cannot be stressed enough. If a developer has to make hacks and workarounds to ensure his site displays correctly and uniformly on a browser then in my opinion that browser has failed in its single most important job: to correctly parse, render and display the site as it is coded1.
As if I hadn’t made it clear enough already, I like WebKit. A lot! I’ve commented on its speed and reliability, but one reason that I haven’t mentioned so far is standards compliance. The single most important test available today for standards compliance on the web is the Acid3 test, and today the WebKit team have announced that the final hurdle in fully passing the Acid3 test has been overcome.
Continue reading ‘WebKit first browser engine to fully pass Acid3 test’
- Of course, if the code is faulty then irregularities are to be expected. [↩]
“Please let’s put an end to over-marketed, expensive, heartless, tacky rubbish, autotune, airbrush…
I demand justice for good music and firebrands who refuse to compromise to be popular.”
- Patrick Wolf
You may recognise this gem from the recent New Zealand ads running on UK TV; that’s certainly where I first heard Forever Young by Youth Group. It’s ace!
Continue reading ‘Don’t have the power but we never say never’
2008-09-21 12:55:26 +0100: Disk Utility started.
2008-09-21 12:57:06 +0100: Repairing permissions for “Leopard”
2008-09-21 12:57:06 +0100: Reading permissions database.
2008-09-21 12:57:06 +0100: Reading the permissions database can take several minutes.
2008-09-21 12:59:40 +0100: Permissions differ on “private/var/log/secure.log”, should be -rw———- , they are -rw-r——- .
2008-09-21 12:59:46 +0100: User differs on “Library/Image Capture/TWAIN Data Sources”, should be 0, user is 502.
2008-09-21 12:59:46 +0100: Permissions differ on “Library/Image Capture/TWAIN Data Sources”, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 12:59:59 +0100: Warning: SUID file “Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/Resources/installAssistant” has been modified and will not be repaired.
2008-09-21 13:00:00 +0100: Permissions differ on “private/var/spool/cups/cache/rss”, should be drwxr-xr-x , they are drwxrwxr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:12 +0100: Permissions differ on “usr/bin/svn”, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:12 +0100: Permissions differ on “usr/bin/svnadmin”, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:12 +0100: Permissions differ on “usr/bin/svndumpfilter”, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:12 +0100: Permissions differ on “usr/bin/svnlook”, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:12 +0100: Permissions differ on “usr/bin/svnserve”, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:12 +0100: Permissions differ on “usr/bin/svnsync”, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:12 +0100: Permissions differ on “usr/bin/svnversion”, should be -rwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:20 +0100: Warning: SUID file “Applications/Utilities/ODBC Administrator.app/Contents/Resources/iodbcadmintool” has been modified and will not be repaired.
2008-09-21 13:00:44 +0100: Warning: SUID file “Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/Resources/pmTool” has been modified and will not be repaired.
2008-09-21 13:00:54 +0100: Permissions differ on “Developer/Examples/JavaWebObjects/DataBaseSetUp/dbdump.sh”, should be -rw-rw-r— , they are -rwxrwxr-x .
2008-09-21 13:00:54 +0100: Permissions differ on “Developer/Examples/JavaWebObjects/DatabaseSetup/dbdump.sh”, should be -rwxrwxr-x , they are -rw-rw-r— .
2008-09-21 13:01:02 +0100: User differs on “Applications”, should be 0, user is 502.
2008-09-21 13:01:02 +0100: Permissions differ on “Applications”, should be drwxrwxr-x , they are drwxr-xr-x .
2008-09-21 13:01:02 +0100: Permissions differ on “Library”, should be drwxrwxr-t , they are drwxrwxr-x .
2008-09-21 13:01:04 +0100: Permissions differ on “.”, should be drwxrwxr-t , they are drwxrwxr-x .
2008-09-21 13:01:06 +0100: Group differs on “private/etc/cups”, should be 0, group is 26.
2008-09-21 13:01:08 +0100:
2008-09-21 13:01:08 +0100: Permissions repair complete
A little while back I noted that the new V8 JavaScript engine written and employed by Google for their new browser Chrome was to be included in the official WebKit source repository. What I didn’t note there is that I simply see no need for it, since the WebKit project’s own JavaScript engine SquirrelFish is already the fastest engine there is. Well, recently SquirelFish has again had its speed improved. The new SquirrelFish Extreme engine runs more than twice as fast as the previous version. Wow!
This chart shows WebKit’s JavaScript performance in different versions - bigger bars are better.
Continue reading ‘WebKit still in the lead’
“We’ve also done some things for pure aesthetic reasons — like rounding some corners (which you won’t see on Internet Explorer but will in Firefox or Safari — or Chrome).”
That’s a lot of tweets!
We’ve won the war but was it really worth it?
I don’t know
Help me days
The broken shadow something that I love.
