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Chris — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:45:37 +0000

I’ve added typekit functionality to this blog, as a test of the service.

You’re presently* (unless you’re getting this via RSS or an unsupported platform/browser combination) basking in Future PT (sadly, not Adobe’s Futura) and Adobe Garamond.

So far, so good.

Chrome starts fast (pointer)

Chris — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:12:50 +0000

Awesome animated ad for Google Chrome:

(Via Official Google Mac Blog.)

iPhone/iPod touch make strong showing on mobile web

Chris — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:15:42 +0000

Report: Apple Dominates the Mobile Web – ReadWriteWeb

Apple now dominates the mobile web in the U.S. with a 48% market share

I’m not sure why this surprised me. I think the key is that they point out how Apple has made devices that people want to surf on. I certainly would never have bothered with my previous Motorola pos. It was barely possible to make a phone call with that thing…

Typography for Lawyers

Chris — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:22:02 +0000

A great site full of useful typographical advice. And not just for lawyers.

Firefox 3 download goal met, and then some

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:46:22 +0000

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

Chris — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:08:49 +0000

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.)

Grant Hutchinson: Twittering from his Newton

Chris — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:22:17 +0000

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.)

Netscape is dead; long live Firefox

Chris — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:43:22 +0000

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.

Bell.ca’s absurd home page

Chris — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:55:03 +0000

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 ?

odd Safari 3.0 (522.11) clipboard behaviour

Chris — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:29:16 +0000

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