All the Netscape Navigator extensions to HTML take the form of additional tags and attributes added to the HTML specification and are specifically designed not to break existing WWW browsers.
The topic of whether or not to use CSS hacks is often hotly debated, and could be thought of as a holy war.
I’ll tell you a little bit more about the implementation later, but right now is pizza time.[via Sam Ruby: More Sticky Strands]
Management should begin to demand a business justification for copyright litigation.
If you’re simply looking for an easy way to backup or move your Mac OS X installation to another disk, check out this other article. The following instructions are more appropriate for the deployment of Mac OS X installations in, say, a lab environment.
You can use NetRestore to restore a master disk image to a computer’s hard disk while that disk image is hosted locally, on a network via AFP, or on the internet via HTTP. NetRestore can also be used in conjunction with NetBoot to fully automate the deployment of a lab full of machines.
Markup for markup’s sake and metadata for metadata’s sake are not good things. Truly. Think before you add markup and metadata.
Among the things enabled are a debugging menu that allows you to do such things as enabling keyboard and mouse shortcuts, changing what browser Safari identifies itself as, and changing how Safari handles Security.
My mother told me that if I was naughty I would come back in my next life as a cripple.
A friend recently applied for a job where the employer asked for a sample of your business writing or a sample of previous work that demonstrates your organization, analysis, and logical thinking skills.
‘But you’re drowning in the waters the mystics walked on,’ said a saddened theologian to Leary and Alpert, early on, when they had explained the import of Dr. Hoffman’s benison. When I first read that, I assumed that this guy was just some sour-faced killjoy. In long retrospect, now, I think he may actually have been trying to tell them something.
I often find that I don’t need a list of all the subelements with a particular name; instead, I need the first one from that list in document order. In other words, I often use an idiom like get_elements_by_tag_name(node, name)[0]. This is very efficient using generators: the generator only does as much work as I ask it to.Enhance speed with HTTP pipelining. Disable blinking text. Block certain images. Turn off auto-complete. Enable the marquee tag. Show history in the side bar. Restrict minimum font size. Modify tab focusing. Configure image animation. Act as another browser to servers.
Fink now has an RSS feed.
The attempts to make UDDI useful and worthwhile keep getting more and more desperate.
The person beside you is the best kind of stranger: the cute kind.
Perhaps a search engine is important enough to be treated as a regulated utility.
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1The general assumption of those in the pundit business is that Safari is intended as a replacement for the sluggish and standards-defiant Internet Explorer for the Macintosh.Amusingly, Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh was considered the most standards-compliant browser in the world when it was first released.
We’ve confirmed that psync as outlined below works just fine under Jaguar.
It’s not called Microsoft(R) Windows(R) .NET Server 2003 any more, since you ask, it’s called Windows Server 2003. This tidily follows up on last August’s name change to Microsoft(R) Windows(R) .NET Server 2003, prior to which its been called numerous things at various points, including Windows 2002 server.
As to drugs facilitating creativity, I think I’ve seen a lot of paintings, most often stacked along the walls of thrift shops, that argue against this.
Since I started using computers (in 1985), I’ve lost track of all the software applications I’ve purchased. Many of them proved useful but only a tiny number provided pleasure together with utility: Photoshop, Nisus, Japanese Language Kit, Dreamweaver, Movable Type.
We were talking about New Year’s resolutions, and she said she was going easy on herself. Her only resolution was to accessorize better.
I’m gonna start my own amusement park… with blackjack… and hookers… in fact, forget the park.
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