Chris Wilson and his team at Microsoft release a “readiness toolkit,” for IE 8, which includes (among other things), a beta of the application and a new debugging tool long the lines of Firebug. Nice.
As of today, the Web Standards movement is over. We won. Visit site »
“…Windows looks sharper at the expense of not actually being a very accurate representation of the text. The Mac with it’s design/DTP background is a much more accurate representation and scales more naturally than Windows which consequently jumps around a lot vertically.”
The piece includes a great example of just how true this is. It also includes this great quotes:
“The issue is reminiscent of the ‘I hate black bars on wide-screen films’ brigade who believe that the film should be chopped, panned, scaled and otherwise distorted from the artists original intention simply so that it fits better on their display.” Visit site »
George Ou puts an image of Vista’s sub-pixel anti-aliasing next to Mac OS X’s non-sub-pixel anti-aliasing and declares Vista the winner. No shit, Sherlock. How about a level playing field? Visit site »
There are a lot of bad things about being stuck on Windows, but the worst one I can think of is not having TextMate (by far the single application I use most on my Mac). E - TextEditor aims to solve the problem (albeit with a really silly name). Visit site »
In this testing video, PC freestyles an Apple commercial in which he delivers a “personal message from Steve Jobs.” Steve has asked all Mac developers to “just stop for a while,” and maybe even take some time to help out with Vista. Funny stuff that was probably never supposed to see the light of day. Visit site »
A very nice looking Quicksilver-slike app for Windows, which also happens to be written in Python. Looks like it would make Windows at least 100% more bearable. I couldn’t help but noticing that some of the developers were on Macs. Heh. Visit site »
Overall, it sounds like Vista is a good, solid upgrade to Windows XP, but when CNET (who hates Apple) says, “Compared with Mac OS X 10.4, Windows Vista feels clunky and not very intuitive,” you know us Mac fans won’t be getting jealous of Vista users anytime soon. Visit site »
“Four experts go head-to-head (to-head-to-head) to defend their Web browser of choice in an opinionated free-for-all.” Decent article. I’m still firmly in the Safari camp for everyday browsing, but I often switch to FF when in development mode. Visit site »
Wow. There are a lot of killer new features in Parallels. This is one seriously ambitious release. Can’t wait to give it a shot. Visit site »
The best text editor ever made comes to the most popular operating system ever made. A match made in — er, nevermind. Visit site »
I’m surprised it too this long, but there’s finally a WebKit-based browser project for Windows. Awesome. Visit site »
This is a Very Good Thing™ for web designers and developers. It means that most XP users will get IE7 automatically, unless they explicitly opt-out. This should drastically increase IE7’s adoption rate. Visit site »
Basically, it’s better from a UI perspective, a whole lot more boring, and only slightly less ugly. But it still looks like crap. Visit site »
VH1’s Best Week Ever spoofs the recent “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” series of Apple ads. Pretty funny stuff. Visit site »