There was a rumor a while ago about Apple possibly developing a movie equivalent of their iTunes Music Store. These are my thoughts on implementation of such a thing.
1. The boogey man of digital media: Digital Rights Management.
A. What kind of burning and copying restrictions would Apple place on [...]
The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions is great as music and as a way of seeing the direction that so many of the musicians involved in the recordings would go on their own. The early sounds of Weather Report (Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul), the Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin), Chick Corea’s Return To [...]
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Music Just when you think you have a problem solved (pop-up window navigation), IE6 comes along and screws it up.
<a href=javascript: history.back()”>Back</a>
Does not seem to want to work. At all. Regardless of syntax.
As for why, it would appear to relate to this securityfocus.com listing. Rather than FIXING it, they disabled the code. [...]
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Browsers According to Apple’s documentation, Safari 1.0 supports the letter-spacing property. Unfortunately, this is one of the tables which Dave Hyatt rightly pointed out as giving a view of breadth, but not of depth. Something about the CSS we are using causes the property to be ignored.
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Browsers The installation of Safari (version 1.0) on my iMac does not render the text beneath my weblog title in the system cursive font, as specified by my CSS. This is somewhat ironic as my iMac is the machine my weblog is actually on. D’oh.
Other installations of Safari on our home network render it [...]
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Browsers It appears that Safari does not support the text-decoration property within a span that is set to display: none until hovered (on which it is set to display: block, a la Eric Meyer’s css/edge).
I’ll post the files which revealed this issue in a day or two.
I also have seen some problems with the word-spacing property, [...]
I’m considering purchasing an iSight from Apple using some of the proceeds from both a web coding project and temping. It would be helpful for remote collaboration on web work (my brother lives in the boonies). The reviews I’ve read thus far have been very positive. The only downside most people mention [...]
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Misc. I am currently digging Herbie Hancock’s “Mwandishi” and “Crossings” albums. Very interesting.
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I am Daniel J. Wilson; a musician (drums), interaction designer, and proud member of the reality-based community.
