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→ Espresso

Looks to be a good competitor to Coda already. One thing I hate about Coda is that while it does have everything in one window none of its individual parts are powerful enough for my use. Its usefulness drops to almost nil the second you start adding server-side languages into the mold. Espresso seems to be going about the “one window web development” thing a different way. I sure hope to be a beta tester.

Via (Jon Hicks).

→ April Fools in September

If this was on April Fools day it’d be an awesome joke. I can’t help but laugh.

(Via Haavard)

→ Fuck Off, I’ve Got Work to Do

I believe if Jeff Croft wasn’t actually pissed at Ian Hickson’s statement in an interview that the date for Proposed Recommendation of HTML 5 is in 2022 he wouldn’t have written it as if someone broke his favorite Optimus Prime toy. I don’t much care for the date either, but CSS 3 and HTML 5 are being implemented long before it’s a proposed standard.

The title is a quote from Trailer Park Boys from a character named Cyrus. Every time he gets pissed off he runs away stating that. It sums Jeff Croft’s attitude up quite well and is strikingly similar to a phrase he repeats quite a lot in his post.

→ Retaining One’s Sanity

I despise Lightboxes and all of the clones thereof. Since I use Opera navigating history is effortless and extremely quick, so a complicated apparatus like this to just display an image is unnecessary; avoiding having to hit the back button and waiting several seconds for the browser to keep up isn’t applicable to my browser of choice as it is to other browsers. Granted, people choose to use these for other reasons. I just don’t have to like them. Thankfully my friend Jeff King has helped me with this problem.