Wordpress 2
I upgraded this evening to Wordpress 2. It was a very smooth upgrade. You can’t tell by looking at my site that I did anything. I think most of the improvements to Wordpress are behind the scenes. Previewing your post in presentation format is nice. If you’ve ever wondered why the feed on this site is wposx it is because I use wordpress. I just named the directory wposx when I started using to distinguish it from the previous blogger software I was using. Anyway, if you need blog software, I have been very happy with Wordpress. It is possible to run it locally on your mac, as long as you have MySql. Want to know more have a look at the codex.
Lately, I have been banging on the two mac browsers in my life. I like Firefox for all of it’s customization. I love the web developer extension. I wish somebody would make that for Safari. I like Safari for it’s speed. And I discovered that it has an awesome javascript debugger. I think I even like it better than Firefox’s. You just have to enable it to get to it. Open your terminal and just type this in to activate it in Safari:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
And what about Firefox about:config. Type that into your location field and see what you have access to. I was bummed to find the one thing I liked to change was gone in 1.5. I liked setting accessibilty.focus to 3 to allow for tabbing to pull down fields in forms. I guess you can create a javascript pref file to pull that feature back. Here is a link to the blog with the info Scott Brenner.com.
Those are my favorite web browsers. I admit I use Firefox more, but I have been leaning back toward Safari a little at a time. I’m hoping Apple or somebody will extend it a little more. Safari’s speed is second to none. I wish Safari would allow you to pick a folder to save downloads into when you download a file. And I wish Safari would let you right click and view properties on an image.
January 21st, 2006 at 11:51 am
>I wish Safari … pick a folder to save downloads into
But it does - though to my chagrin, I only discovered this a few months back.
Right click a link to get the pop-up which contains “Download Linked File”. Then press the [option] key and it converts to “Download Linked File As…”. Hey presto!
Similarly, “Save Image To The Desktop” changes to “Save Image As…”.
Neat!
January 22nd, 2006 at 6:50 am
That works on a hypertext link, but it doesn’t when the link is an image. On audible.com, they have a linked image in your library of downloads. Whenever I use the right click - option as you’ve described, the menu choice is not there. But I tried option clicking and it downloaded to my regular download folder I have in my prefs. It didn’t allow me to pick a folder. I think they still need to work on this. they just need to make it a preference setting, allowing you to choose.
I’ve just recently installed the Web Developer Additions. Seems to be decent in comparison to “Web Developer Tools” for Firefox. It does let me get properties on images and has a lot of nice outlining features. Now I have even more reson to go to Safari as my browser of choice.
January 23rd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Safari vs. Firefox…
I’ve been teeter-tottering back and forth between Safari and Firefox. I’m recently back to Safari since I broke down and bought Saft for the ad blocking ability. By the way, the Panther version doesn’t block ads—I already made that mistake. Ov…
January 23rd, 2006 at 3:48 pm
> but it doesn’t when the link is an image.
Yes it does.
Try this page. It may not be a great example, but it does serve to illustrate the point.
The little “–> download” links are each small GIFs. Right click on one of them and “Save Linked File to the Desktop” appears in the top half of the popup menu. Press [option] and it changes to “Save Linked File as…”.
This is an example of a simple link. I wonder if your Audible example - since it’s part of commercial service - has some fancy JavaScript behind the link, or some other jiggery pokery. That might explain why this feature failed in this example.
January 23rd, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Eek! I put the URL in angle brackets and the link disappeared in the preview. Here it is again, minus the brackets…
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/desktop_diversions/html/link_icons.html
Watch out for wrapped long lines…
January 23rd, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Must be as you say. Your examples worked for me. The Audible site must use a javascript to handle the link and download. Thanks for pointing this feature out to me.