Christopher Mackay’s Blog

TechBlog: Mozilla hits its Firefox 3 download goal, and then some: 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours, including 300,000 from Canada.

(Via spreadfirefox.com and chron.com.)

Mac OS X first to fall: “In the first attempted attack in the PWN2OWN contest, a security analyst breached the defenses of Apple’s Mac OS X using a bug in the Safari browser and won $10,000 as well as the computer that he compromised.”

(Via SecurityFocus.com.)

Twittering From My Newton on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Grant Hutchinson out-geeks us all…

I really should fire up the old eMate again…

(Via John Moltz.)

AOL today announced the end of the Netscape web browser. They’re handing the reigns over to Firefox, almost as if it hadn’t already effectively happened.

Remember those wonderful web badges that obnoxious webmasters used to put on their home pages? You know, “Optimized for Netscape 3.0″? As if people would go to the trouble of downloading and installing a web browser just to see some idiot’s latest enhancement to their web site (usually something involving the “blink” tag).

Well, I had a flashback to those days today. I visited Bell.ca, and I had the audacity to do it with a Mac and ?

Apple’s beta release of Safari 3.0 has certainly got lots of people talking. While I didn’t have any issues with installation or launch, as some have reported, I did have it crash on me once, which is quite uncharacteristic.

Today I noticed a really odd behaviour: I was doing some data-entry, copying-and-pasting data from BBEdit 8.6.2 into a web form in Safari 3. Copy, switch, paste, switch, copy, switch, paste… The weird thing is that it was sometimes (maybe 10%?) remembering previous clipboard data. E.g.: first “a” is copied-and-pasted, then “b” is copied, but “ab” gets pasted. Impossible; each new “copy” clears the previous one.?Ǭ

There seems to be a theme today…

What is it with Adobe.com? I tell it to remember me as a registered user, and it never does. It’s not as if cookies aren’t set — it shows “welcome, ” and then my account ID. It knows me. But if I click on “Your Account”, it asks me to sign in. How stupid is that? It wastes my time, every time. They’re important, and I’m not. Not a great way to treat customers.

Normally, the way these things work, is that once you log-in to a site, you can close the window and come back later without having to log in again — as long as you don’t quit the browser. Not with Adobe.com. It forgets every time.

And what’s up with those horrid drop-down menus? Are they trying to trigger an epileptic seizure?

Of course, this is how it works in Safari on Mac OS X. No doubt it works just fine in Firefox, or IE7, or IE6, or some other browser I don’t use (when not testing web sites). But Adobe ships their products for Mac OS X, and their web site should work in the default web browser for Mac OS X. Period. It’s not as if their site navigation is some minor feature on their site…

That’s enough ranting for today. Stay tuned for a look at my experience with Dreamweaver CS3 (aka DW9).

This is very good news. Now if only there was a way to run IE6 & IE7 side-by-side on one box…

IEBlog: Details on our CSS changes for IE7

And deservedly so, if half of what he’s written at A List Apart is true…

• To Hell with WCAG-2

Scott Berkin, former interface designer for Microsoft, who left the Internet Explorer team in 1999, comments on what he likes and dislikes in his new browser of choice; Firefox.

Oh, in case you haven’t yet — get Firefox.