March, 2009


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Mar 09

Developing web apps on a Mac

I don’t understand the attraction of coding on a PC. I have never been able to fathom the logic behind Windows. Why does it constantly interrupt me while I’m working with annoying dialog boxes about background tasks? It’s as if it thinks what its doing is more important than what you’re doing.

I have recently discovered the joys of debugging CSS in Safari 4.0 beta. It rocks! The inspector makes light work of tracking down that one rule that is causing a layout to break. I develop an app in Safari and get it to work perfectly, and then ensuring its compliance with W3c Standards. Next I test in Opera and Firefox and most of the time they work perfectly too. Then I tackle all the bug fixes, patches, scripts and annoying hoops you have to jump through in order to make it work properly in Internet Explorer (any version!).

Honestly when will people learn that their default browser that came with their computer sucks!

I say bring on HTML 5, CSS 3 and then we really will see the best the web has to offer.