In a move which has taken me pleasantly by surprise, Apple have announced that Safari 3 will be available on Windows. You can download a Public Beta here, and media plugins for Windows are available here. I’ll play with it a little later.
Update: After ten minutes play, my initial thoughts are that, on the negative side, it doesn’t integrate well with the Windows look & feel, while on the positive side, it is very fast and the font smoothing is beautiful.
So @media 2007 is over and, after a little breather, here’s a short breakdown of what I saw, in chronological order, along with links to presentations where possible.
There were lots of great, inspiring ideas, which should spin out into a few more posts in the near future.
I’ve been at @media Europe 2007 today, watching some top-notch presentations about the current and future state of the web. I think Dan Cederholm’s Interface Design Juggling was the pick of the bunch, although it was a close-run thing.
Six hour-long sessions, interspersed with a couple of work-related emergencies, then home for dinner and more work, leaves me with little time to go into detail, but I’ll post more over the weekend. Tomorrow looks like being a good day too; I’m particularly looking forward to Håkon Wium Lie’s talk, 1 Web, Acid 2 and CSS 3.
Just time to quickly mention that the latest alpha of Firefox 3 has been released, as has Camino 1.5, which has partly answered my previous question by implementing a lot of useful features.
Meanwhile, there are a couple of lengthy but interesting posts on CSS3.info (part one, part two) explaining the situation and progress of CSS 3, written by one of the invited experts. Worth a read.
I’m off to @media Europe this week, and looking forward to hearing presentations from some of the best in the business.
Of course there are many excellent events that take place worldwide that I can’t attend, and many presentations I’d love to see. Below are five links to slideshows from events that have taken place this year, which I’ve found interesting even without being able to see them presented.
Ostensibly about JavaScript, but also of great value to anyone who writes code. How to plan well to avoid bloated code, and how to pass that on to anyone who follows you.
An overview of Microformats, the benefits they bring to the web, and how Mozilla intends to expose them in future browsers.
Where CSS is now, what we can expect from it in the future, and which CSS 3 declarations you could be using now.
A hands-on primer in grid-based design, with plenty of examples to follow.
Why typography on the web is so poor compared to print, and what you can do to make your text look nicer.
For no particular reason other than idle curiosity, I made a demo of a broken neon sign, using CSS Animations (you’ll need Firefox 5, Safari or Chrome to see it). It doesn’t degrade well at the moment, the root cause of which is down to what I think is a bug in Firefox’s implementation — I’ll need to confirm that.
One quick learning from making this: it would be really useful to have CSS Mixins when using a lot of repetitive keyframes, as I do in this animation. The W3C seem to be quite against them, however.
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