The wintery mix of snow banks and grey tones was feeling a bit old so I thought I’d liven the site up a little by bringing in a little more color and cycling in some new photos.
I still want to adjust the contrast on a few of the photos, but otherwise it was a nice quick change…
Enjoy.
Hot off the AP wires via Sploid comes this tidbit of political [religiously?] correct Newspeak out in California. Religious Man Wants to Rename Mt. Diablo:
“Words have power, and when you start mentioning words that come from the dark side, evil thrives,” Mijares told the Contra Costa Times. “When I take boys camping on the mountain, I don’t even like to say its name. I have to explain what the name means. Why should we have a main feature of our community that celebrates the devil?”
What other words should we scratch from the English language?
As a follow up to my last post on Safari and Acid2, it looks like David Baron of the Mozilla project has started to break down the tests and digging into where the page breaks down (or perhaps where the test breaks down). You can track progress by watching bug 289480.
I’ve been a bit quiet in regards to the Acid2 CSS tests being hosted by the WaSP, mostly because the bulk of what I have read and would have wanted to respond to has leaned towards the political and the hand-wringing as opposed to the more technical in nature so I thought it best to just sit on my hands rather then add to the noise.
That said, tonight I caught the following item from Dave Hyatt:
I started work today on making Safari pass the test, and I thought I’d blog my progress as I fix bugs in the test. This will be a fairly slow process as whole features may have to be added simply to make one row of the test render correctly.
That’s wonderful news for both Safari as well as the web development community, and I look forward to reading about the trials and tribulations Dave goes through while making Safari a better browser.
It seems I missed a month there, but fear not, the PNH Zeitgeist – a clash of unobtrusive DHTML and otherwise boring usage reporting – has been updated with new data from February and March.
No new trends in the numbers, but did see a few new spiders coming online. Which begs the question, with dozens of “search engines” out there sending hundreds of spiders to index this site why do I only see referrals from half a dozen of them each month? Why do they all exist? Who supports them?