Category: OS

Last month the W3C released a working draft of the File API, which defines the basic representations for files, lists of files, errors raised by access to files, and programmatic ways to read files. The Firefox team have already implemented much of it, and have released a series of impressive demos on hacks.mozilla.org, which you can see if you have a recent beta of Firefox 3.6 (or a nightly trunk build).

Why hasn’t Safari 3 come out of Beta yet? Leopard was released weeks ago, and Safari 3.04 was included in that; presumably that was a full release version and not a Beta, so why hasn’t a full release happened for other OS’s yet? I understand the Windows version might be delayed a little, but the […]

Although they didn’t create the concept, Mozilla popularised tabbed browsing with the release of Firefox. Tabbed browsing is, of course, a very good thing; the old IE model of having a separate window for every instance of a site you open became unmanageable when computers got more powerful and websites no longer slowed down the […]

As an Ubuntu user at home, I don’t have the option of installing imaging software such as Photoshop. Luckily, the best free and open-source alternative, GIMP, has just released a new version  —  and it’s fantastic.
While it doesn’t perhaps have quite the myriad of features that Adobe’s product does, it does have every tool I’ve ever needed […]

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 […]

I’m back from my holiday, with a quick look at some of the links I would have discussed in more detail had I been here…