Alex Jones: Web Technologist, Barbecue Acolyte, Information Junkie, Austinite

Debugging Safari

Check out this post by rakaz, which provides a quick walk-through on enabling the debug menu in Safari for Windows, which provides the ability to access JavaScript exceptions, show the JS console, enable a runaway JavaScript timer and turn off “Site-Specific Hacks”. This should make life a bit easier.

Posted in JavaScript, Safari & Tagged: Safari, Web Development, Windows

Safari’s Font Rendering on Windows

I just ran across an interesting feature of the Safari 3 Beta for Windows. Apple has included a copy of Lucida Grande and Lucida Grande bold. But instead of dropping them into the main Windows font directory, where all apps could make use of it, the fonts are under the \Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\. So, sites that set Lucida Grande as the first font in their styles will look different in Safari than the other browsers in a Windows environment. Add the font smoothing capabilities built into Safari, and you can see some visible differences in text rendering on many sites across the Web when comparing IE, Firefox and Safari on Windows.

Posted in Design & UI, Technology & Tagged: Safari, Web Development, Windows

Flickring Feeds

A quick note to those of you subscribed to my feed - photos that I publish to Flickr will now show up in my feed. I doubt you will see many as I’m not even sure how heavily I will use Flickr. Please let me know if it gets annoying by leaving a comment on this post. Of course, I would also love to hear if you like the addition!

My long term goal is to use Flickr instead of setting up yet another bit of gallery software. So far I think it’ll work nicely.

Posted in General