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So Safari 4 Beta is out, but it’s apparent that they’re still not designing the browser for me. The things that keep me with Firefox are above all its extensions and general customizability. WebKit is a better rendering engine and Safari’s UI widgets are arguably second to none, but the browser itself may as well [...]

Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

—Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., “The Mythical Man-Month”
In the old model, large companies built large pieces of software and had to support nearly every user and their myriad edge cases and behaviors. This meant fixing [...]

Today, it was brought to my attention that Maryland’s governor, in an August 24 announcement with General Motors outlined a timetable for the “sustainable” energy future from Sun Edison’s products, which began life back in 2003. The governor helped pass legislation that requires 20 percent of Maryland’s energy portfolio to come from renewable sources of [...]

It bothers me when sites provide links to “sign up” and “login”. The former is a verb phrase, but the latter is a noun; it should be “log in” to mirror the form. An argument can be made for linking to “login” the noun, as in the “login [page]” but then you would also link [...]

This is a call for all developers of websites and web applications that have a user authentication system. If I have to register for your site, please don’t make me register again for your forums or customer support app!
It’s fine to use third party software for discussion forums, but it’s important to put forth the [...]

Send email in plain text – not “formatted” or HTML. Your font is hideous and your gratuitous spacing is offensive. Don’t even get me started on background images. Convey your message with punctuation, letters, words and sentences. If something is *really important* you can use asterisks, like that.
Keep it short and to the point – [...]

This is a brief follow-up to Faulty Firing (see that post for the description of the tests) with updated results in the latest browsers.
Firefox 2.0.0.7 (Mozilla 1.8.1.7) & Firefox 3.0a9 (“Minefield”)

mousedown, focus, mouseup, click, change
focus, click, change
blur, focus, click

Internet Explorer 7

mousedown, focus, mouseup, click
click, focus
change, blur, click, focus

Safari 3.0.3 Beta

mousedown, mouseup, change, click
change, click
click

Opera 9.5 [...]

I’m going to keep this short and sweet. 9rules, the community I was admitted to based on the quality of my site content, has recently made a change in policy. This quote sums it up:
…participation in either the new member area or my.9rules is required for all members…

Tyme White
Essentially, in the interest of “fairness”, only [...]

I never got around to writing a print stylesheet for posts when I redesigned this site the last time, so I went ahead and did so tonight. It’s very minimalist and uses a serif font for printed readability (Georgia to be exact).
I’ve tested the output in Safari and Firefox on some of my more complicated [...]

Sometimes when I write an article I know that there is a low potential value for comments directly on the article. In these cases, I close comments and encourage linking to the article from other sites, hoping to encourage more thoughtful replies and a richer discourse. Well that’s great, but it’s not much of a [...]