Another update from Safari developer Dave Hyatt announces that Safari passes the Acid2 test. Additionally, the changes made have been posted so that khtml developers can take advantage of the work.
DH: Well, the great thing about KHTML is that nothing in the test was that hard to implement. Safari was actually already really close (despite the rendering in 1.3). The bugs were either just missing minor features, like
Lets say you were to create a web content management tool. In this tool you created a variety of tables, one to store article content, one to store comments, another to store links, and maybe one to store some preferences. In this preference table you had things like the site’s name, install path, and other assorted goodies, but because it was just another name value pair, and you didn’t have a seemingly better place to put it you decided to toss a time stamp for the last modified date of the sites content into that preferences table.
Now lets say someone came along later and decided they wanted to run two or three sites sharing that same content, but with slightly different installs. They’d all point to the same content and take what they want from it or add to it at will, but each would have to have its own distinct preferences. But oh wait! There’s that one preference that needs to be in sync!
/walks away mumbling to himself/
Looks like Opera broke the million download mark so their CEO is now, um… well.. you can follow it all on their official swin challenge page.
Now who in the world would want to start a hockey blog at the end of a season that never happened? I have no idea, but the folks(s?) at You Wanna Go? have and not only is it a clean and readable design, but its really nice to see something other then depressing news about the state of the labor talks. Instantly added to my Hockey category in NNW right next to Hockeybird and PuckUpdate.
Run, don’t walk and go download the newly released Opera 8.0. Not just because its another solid browser out of the company that just never seems to get enough recognition for it, but also because of the just announced One Million Download Challenge:
An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother’s house in his home country, Iceland. Opera’s communications department could obviously not resist to make such a bold and inarguably over-confident statement public.
The 4th day is nearly here, so don’t wait and go download.
P.S. Hey Opera we know you’re smart, but the fancy platform sniffing when you click the download link, well, it doesn’t help give me something to link to and confidently get your Windows product.