Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category
Wal-Mart DRM-free downloads: Not for me.
Wal-Mart is offering DRM-free music downloads in MP3 format for $.94. They claim that you can “download to any player” and that may be true but I tried to buy a track from Wal-Mart and guess what? It doesn’t work on a Mac.
When I go to the Wal-Mart catalog and click “Check out MP3 music” in their flash thingy I get the following:
Everyone claims that Wal-Mart’s new Windows-only DRM-free MP3 download service is a competitor to iTunes but I don’t see how.
Update:
Wal-Mart also seems to not play well with any browser but Internet Explorer.
Firefox users can still use the “original” store which, apparently, isn’t as feature-rich as their new store. I don’t know what their new store looks like or what sort of features it has because when I tried to open it in Internet Explorer 7, it just showed a blank page with the error icon in the lower-left of the window with “Done” next to it.
Twicetab 1.3
Twicetab is a SIMBL plugin for Safari that allows you to create a new tab by double-clicking on the tab bar. The new version allows you to close tabs by option-clicking them or clicking them with your middle mouse button.
Twicetab will open either a blank tab when you double-click or it will duplicate the current tab.
I’ve not had any problems with it at all and I’ve used previous versions for a while now. The only complaint that I have is that it places a menu item in the Safari menu. It puts its preferences item there instead of putting it into Safari’s preference window like other plugins.
Twicetab is donationware.
Quick rant about Safari 3
Just a quickie:
I hate how in Safari 3 the Open Page With sub-menu is at the top of the Debug menu instead of at the bottom like it was in previous versions. Every time I go to open a page in Camino I automatically jump down to the bottom of the menu and then get lost and have a freak-out for about 30 seconds while I hunt for the right item.
Internet Explorer is a piece
Why is IE (6 and 7) such a piece of shit that it doesn’t even know that ' is supposed to be an apostrophe and not just some bit of text to be rendered?
Browser homepages and validation
Interesting yet possibly completely trivial discovery: Both Opera.com and Mozilla.com validate to XHTML 1.0 Strict. The Camino homepage tries for XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but fails because someone failed to close a line break, using <br> instead of <br />.
Safari’s page does pretty good, but comes out with 3 errors when trying for HTML 4.01 Transitional. It also has a lot of warnings because of their use if ’ in place of ' or apostrophes and — instead of —
The IE 7 homepage doesn’t even try to come anywhere near valid and succeeds wonderfully at that with 208 errors including not even including a DOCTYPE declaration.
