Category: Apple

Dave Hyatt (in his new MovableType weblog:

If you’re trying to embed the Safari layout engine right now, stop it! 🙂 Don’t try to build code around these two components.

Mark Pilgrim has been looking into hiding CSS from Safari.  He has come up with a hack that can be used to deal with CSS for Safari only.

Brent is looking into embedding WebCore into NetNewsWire:

WebCore is the framework developers can use to add Safari’s HTML renderer to their applications. There’s a pretty good chance NetNewsWire will use this. Step one for me will be to get it working with a simple test app.

I really wish my old 8500 (hotrodded with a 400MHz G4 card) were able to (easily) run OSX.  I’m missing out on all this cool stuff.

Wi-Fi Networking News has some more dirt on Apple’s Airport Extreme (802.11g).  Glenn Fleishman has deduced that the chip manufacturer is Boradcom.  Hopefully the base station firmware will be upgradable to interop with other chipsets.  I like this part:

The new Apple Extreme Base Station supports access point and bridge mode simultaneously. Deploying several base stations is now a simple solution for smaller networks that need more client access is different places.

I also like the option for adding an external antenna.  That’s what I’d do.

Ask:

I just sent a bug report to Apple for Safari: “No tabs. I can’t open a new window in a new tab. Where are my tabs? I can’t figure out to surf the web without tabs. Please give me my tabs back. Can I have my tabs? Please don’t make such a cool browser but forget the tabs. Please put the tabs back in. In closing, I would like to add that it would be very nice if Safari could get tabs.”

There’s one way to address the issue.

How will releasing Safari for OSX effect the Apple-Microsoft relationship?

Here’s a question for the wireless tech heads in the crowd: How are the new Aluminum Powerbooks going to perform in the wireless Airport (802.11b)/Airport Extreme (802.11g) category?  I know that the ibooks do quite well with Airport but the titanium in the TiBook decreases performance significantly.

Will anyone be on the show floor tomorrow to check it out or ask the question?  That might be a deal maker or breaker for some people.

Aaron has a buncha cool Apple pointers.

Wi-Fi Networking News has the low-down on Apple’s Airport Extreme.  I like the idea that if a particular 802.11g chip is not compatabile with another particular 802.11g chip, they can just revert back to 802.11b and talk, albeit slower.

RIP HomeRF.  I have a feeling 802.11a will not be far behind…

The Big and Small commercial rules.

Paolo:

Of course, I’m posting this from the newly installed new Apple’s browser: Safari. Hmmm… where is my wysiwyg editor? Oh, well. A very interesting keynote, now I know how my next portable looks like.

I hope Steve has something up his sleeve, I’m overly impressed so far.  I do like this tidbit from Macrumors‘ notes:

85 mil people live within 15 miles of an Apple Store

I don’t really care about the iStuff.  I just want to see some hardware.  Is that wrong?

Ooh, a high speed web browser.  Safari.  Cool.

Keynote, a presentation application.  Cute.  Well, if it’s good enough for a Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote…

Ooh.  I want a 17″ Powerbook.  1″ Thick.  1440×900.  Anodized aluminum.  Good specs, though at $3299 it’s a little out of my price range.

Maybe the new smaller 12″ powerbook will be for me.  1024×768, 867MHz G4, and good all around specs for $1799.   That sounds more like it.

I’m down with Airport Extreme (802.11g).  54Mbps and backwards compatability works for me.  And a base station will cost $199.  Not too shabby considering a 802.11b access point is $99 on sale.

I like the tech on the powerbooks.  I’m worried that I’m still going to be waiting for the other shoe to drop when Steve is done.  No matter how cool the stuff that they announce is, I keep expecting more.

That’s it for the keynote.  I’m left wanting more, but I’m quite happy with the hardware announced today.  Keep up the good work, Apple.

I’m going to be in the market for a laptop in the semi-near future, and I might have to take a close look at the 12″ powerbook.

MacNN is gearing up for tomorrow’s keynote.  You’ll want to check their Macworld SF Keynote Page frequently tomorrow at 9AM PST.

You know, it has been a long time since we’ve had an earth-shattering ‘One More Thing,’ though I hear that the really earth shattering stuff is going to take some time.

MacSlash and MacMegasite cover a Rendezvous-enabled ftp client from Xnet Communications GmbH.  Keep ’em coming!

Tomorrow morning is the Washington Apple Pi Winter Garage Sale.  This is the best chance for anyone in the region to buy macs, mac junk, spare parts, random fun stuff, or anything else apple or mac related.  I’ll be there around 8:30 or so.  Find me or email/text me if you’ll be there.

MacNN:

IBM confirmed that its PowerPC 970 processor, which is scheduled to begin shipping in the second half of 2003, has AltiVec-compatible execution units, as noted by a MacNN reader: “The 970’s multiple execution units including an AltiVec compatible vector processor are fed by an up to 900-MHz processor interface bus, which can deliver data at a rate of up to 6.4 GBps…In addition to high performance general -purpose processing, application-specific acceleration (such as multimedia) can be achieved through the AltiVec vector engine. Codeveloped by IBM, this engine extends the PowerPC instruction set with 162 Single-Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions.”