The Camino browser team has released version 2.0 of the Gecko powered web browser. Version 2.0 brings a number of new features to the table for the browser, including…
- Tab Overview: Think of it as Exposé for your open tabs.
- Tabbed browsing improvements: You can (finally) reorder tabs, and when the number of tabs exceeds the window width, view open tabs in a drop down menu. Additionally, left and right scrollbars appear to allow you to scroll through the tabs.
- Download notifications through Growl (if it is installed).
There are a number of other smaller improvements and bug fixes to the browser as well.
I have a soft spot for Camino. Back in the early days of OS X, Camino (then called Chimera), was the best browser, hands down available for the platform. As a web developer, using Mac OS X in those days was a difficult task. The included web browser, Internet Explorer 5, was a big steaming pile of shit. It was slow, buggy, and its rendering engine was nowhere near as robust as the Gecko rendering engine. When the first builds of Chimera appeared, it was like seeing the Marines appear on the beach with reinforcements. By the time Chimera 0.2 was released, it was my default browser. I stuck with Chimera/Camino until Safari hit the scene in 2003.
But I’ve always appreciated what Camino offers Mac OS X users – a small, fast, lightweight browser built on top of a rock solid rendering engine.
Congrats to the Camino team for shipping version 2.0!
Category: Software,Web Development
Safari 4.04 is available via software update. No word yet on whether the recent improvements to the webkit inspector landed in this update.
From the release notes:
This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:
Improved JavaScript performance
Improved Full History Search performance for users with a large number of history items
Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins, the search field and Yahoo! Mail
For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
Update: The Webkit Inspector improvements noted above are not included in Safari 4.04.
Update: It appears the keyboard shortcut for Top Sites, Command-Shift-1 has been removed from Safari 4.04. If you use this keyboard shortcut, you may want to hold off on upgrading.
Update: Looks like the shortcut has been changed to Alt-Command-1. That’s the sort of change you would expect to be detailed in the release notes, if your release notes had any meaningful, detailed descriptions.
Category: Software,Web Development
In previous versions of Mac OS X, Apple included PHP, but usually an older version that what was available at the time of the operating systems release. In Snow Leopard, Apple has included the just released PHP 5.3. Compared with other Mac OS X releases, Apple has made getting PHP and MySQL up and running much easier than before. (more…)
Category: Tutorial,Web Development
One of the issues I routinely encounter when updating many of my WordPress site’s is Transmit’s failure to delete .pureftpd-upload files. These are zero byte, hidden files with permissions that prevent you from deleting them via your FTP client. The consensus seems to be that these files are left when an FTP client gets interrupted during upload. Since I use Transmit exclusively, my first assumption was these files were Transmit specific. Upon further investigation, it appears many other FTP clients suffer from creating these little monsters as well.
The only solution I have found to remove them is to use CPanel’s File Manager to navigate to where these files reside, and delete them. This can become quite the pain in the ass if you have several of these buggers floating about in your site.
Category: Web Development
Apple has released Safari 3.1 for Mac & Windows. New to Safari 3.1 are additions from the HTML5 spec, including new audio & video tags and a storage (database) API, along with significant Javascript optimizations, and new CSS tag support.
Safari 3.1 is a free download for Mac & Windows.
Category: Software,Web Development
Love Coda? Love TextMate? Wish that you could get Coda’s syntax coloring for HTML in TextMate? Well, here’s my first quick stab at replicating Coda’s syntax coloring in TextMate. Download the CodaHTML.tmTheme file, unzip, double click, and enjoy.
Category: Software,Web Development
Safari 2 passed the Acid2 test when it was released. It was one of the first browsers to do so (Opera might have beat Safari by a couple of months). Word hit yesterday that the IE team had their in house IE8 build pass the Acid2 test for the first time. Things are looking up for developers who support standards!
However, look at this screenshot of the Acid2 test in Safari 3.04 (both Windows and Mac). It seems that Safari is suffering a regression.
Here’s hoping the Safari team can fix this glitch quickly. I’d hate to live in a world where IE passes the Acid test, and Safari fails.
Category: Apple,Web Development
