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Safari goes gold

23 June 2003

Ladies and Gentlemen, Safari 1.0. Apple have address a whole load of issues that existed in the beta releases, many of which are CSS layout issues. The text size has been changed to match that of other browsers too – which is a big improvement. This is one hot little browser.

Oh yeah, and the world’s first 64bit desktop computer. Mean looking guy he is too. Didn’t know what to think of the new case at first, but after a few moments of consideration it has my vote. Apple certainly have taken steps to make their case reflect the seriousness of the technology inside (both hardware and software). I think they’ve got it right. Again.

Somewhat unrelated – Man arrested for not being able to play the accordion (sorry, that was a little sensationalist)

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Nathan Pitman: Mmm, yum yum. My Bank Manager would understand... wouldn’t he?
  2. § Jesse Rodgers: About time.. although that has to be one the fastest beta to 1.0 I have seen.. of course I haven’t really been paying attention.

    Nice browser.. easy to design for.. seems standards compliant so far.
  3. § Drew: It’s a great browser - let’s hope they keep the pace up.

    I bet it goes like the clappers on a G5 ;)

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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