Peter D'Orsi » Web Design http://www.peterdorsi.com Philly based Creative Director, Gamer and friend to all Pugs Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:03:37 +0000 en hourly 1 Apple Safari 3.0 Public Beta for XP/Vista http://www.peterdorsi.com/web-design/apple-safari-30-public-beta-for-xpvista/ http://www.peterdorsi.com/web-design/apple-safari-30-public-beta-for-xpvista/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:01:34 +0000 Peter http://www.peterdorsi.com/archives/2007/06/apple-safari-30-public-beta-for-xpvista/ Apple has released its browser, Safari, to the windows community. Safari currently has a 4% market share of the browser market, it will be interesting to see if they can take on FireFox. I personally use FireFox on both my OS X and Vista boxes.

Beta 3 is also available to test on OS X.

Safari 3 Public Beta

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  1. User-agent: Fasterfox
  2. Disallow: /

Adding these two lines somewhere in your robots.txt file and placing it in the root folder will prevent Fasterfox from pre-fetching links anywhere on your site. (ex: yourwebsite.com/robots.txt) Webmasters can modify the text so that Fasterfox will only be prevented from pre-fetching on specified directories.

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The CSS looks like this:

p.test { color:red; }
p[id$="test"] { color:green; }
p[id$="test"]:not([class="xxx"]) { color:red; }
@media all and (min-width:0px) { p[id$="test"] { color:red; } }

which applies to this sample HTML:

‹p class=”test” id=”test”›
This text will be green if the rule has been applied.
‹/p›

The first rule applies to all modern browsers. The second rule applies to any which support substring-matching attribute selectors, which is Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror, Opera 9 and IE7. The third rule applies to browsers which support both the attribute selector and the negation pseudo-class, which is Mozilla, Safari and Konqueror. This leaves IE7 and Opera 9, so the fourth rule uses a CSS3 media query to negate the style for Opera 7.

Credit goes to Brother Cake and David “liorean” Andersson for discovering this.

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All in all we’ve closed 114 bugs in the 2.0.1 release, which you’re welcome to check out if you’re curious about every fix. To summarize:

  • You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
  • Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
  • Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
  • XML-RPC uploading works.
  • Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
  • Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
  • Imports now use much less memory.
  • Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.

Release Info – Download

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We can’t escape it: the end of the year is the time for lists, charts and so on… To honour the tradition, a few days ago over at blog.html.it I posted my top 20 bookmarks of 2005. I’ll report them here in English: they’re divided by category, in no particularar order.

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