Isolationism

In case you’ve been living in a dungeon (a particularly crude dungeon without internet access) and have just stepped out into the daylight, Firefox 2.0 has been officially released less than a week after MSIE 7.0 went gold.

You can download it now from Mozilla’s official server. You can also check out the Slashdot discussion on the topic, which is bound to be both extensive and entertaining.

Allow me to join the celebration in congratulating the Mozilla team on another milestone release of their fantastic product. May the best browser win.

It seems like it’s early days yet to be complaining, but I have a gripe: WordPress stinks at posting source code.

The problem is a bit long to explain but the issue is stifflingly simple: The visual TinyMCE text editor (and how it is implemented in WordPress, it seems) contrives to strip leading tabs and spaces from all lines of content—including content between <code> and <pre> tags.

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Well, that didn’t take long, did it? You just know someone had this one waiting in the wings to announce as soon as the final release made it out to piss on Microsoft’s parade.

The only flaw I see in their logic is that the Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday would have been an even better day to announce this little flaw, as MSIE 7 will be rolled out automatically to a large number of users automatically as mentioned in an earlier post.

The final release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is now available as a “free download” from Microsoft’s site as of tonight.

As a web designer who is (dramatically) impacted by this release I am of two minds. Disclosure: I am a Firefox user and have been for years, now—but as any UI designer knows, your preference has nothing to do with what you do all day long.

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Believe it or not, I don’t think there’s any hyperbole in this post’s title. How is it possible that MySpace could be worth so much—but have so little contributed to making it attractive, flexible, and well-designed—especially after its whirlwind success over the past 12 months?

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