Yeaah, currently installing it Can’t wait to test it on my Dual G5…

The Web standards project has released the Acid2
test for Web browsers. It is a pretty crafty HTML+CSS test designed to
ensure that browsers are properly implementing support for those
standards.

Every browser fails it spectacularly.

Almost every browser that is;
Mac OS X ‘Safari 2.0′ passes the test now (patched)

So while Microsoft is busy updating IE7 so they’re at least compatible
with specs drafted in 1996 (Png Alpha) Apple is once again on the
bleeding edge, having the first browser which passes the Web standards
project test suite.
Congratulations to Dave Hyatt

Another good thing is that the Safari HTML engine ‘khtml’ comes from the KDE Konqueror-project and so it won’t probably take long until the Konqueror passes this test too

Ah yeah and in case you wonder: khtml != Gecko (the engine that fires
the famous mozilla firefox browser), so these developments won’t help
Firefox pass the Acid2 test. I just tried the test with Firefox 1.0 and
I’ve to say that it looks better than in my current unpatched Safari
1.3, so I guess it won’t take long until Gecko/Firefox passes this test
too.

Just a pitty that the Safari 2.0 from tomorrow’s upcoming Tiger doesn’t already support this.

Let’s see when the IE will be able to pass this test

Paul Thurrott has some Longhorn ScreenShots too and describes it as .. well.. he hasn’t got much positive to say:

I’m reflecting a bit
on Longhorn 5048. My thoughts are not positive, not positive at all.
This is a painful build to have to deal with after a year of waiting, a
step back in some ways. I hope Microsoft has surprises up their
sleeves. This has the makings of a train wreck.

Apple seems to gain quite some momentum, I hope they’re able to deal with that.

Some new Longhorn shots have popped up. It looks a lot like WindowsXP, and I can’t but find that it’s still somehow.. messy. But then again it’s one more year to go, and they probably concentrate on the technology behind it currently.

Lets wait, I wonder if Apple manages to come out with 10.5 right before Longhorn arrives

I came down with the flu yesterday, but I still went to work today,
shouldn’t have done that because I’m really ill now Got a headdache,
can’t swallow without pain, feeling the need to throw up and other
annoying tidbits.

And I smell unpleasant.

I tried to work on some music; impossible.. I guess I’ll try to read a
book, I still have a shitload of books to read, I’m already looking
forward to a nice book about ‘Wittgenstein‘ (German philosopher) right after I finish my current one about Rosseau.

Ok, I
just read that the main reason why Adobe went to buy Macromedia was
that they were afraid that Microsoft was going to do it first. From
this perspective, it’s a great move, as it should garant future
versions of Flash and or Dreamweaver under Mac OS X. Thanks guys.

There we are, featuring another Track-A-Day. I finally realized that
it’s quite impossible for me to create a track every day as there’re
quite many days a week where I’m not even at home at all. So I changed
the rule a bit:
Track-A-Day just means that I created that track on that day only.
This track is Chill DnB (or how you’ll call it). Some simple chords and
a damn nice drumline, ah well, I’d say that this one is among the
better ones from my Track-A-Day results; I’d even reckon that I will
continue on this one;

Length: 1:58 Minutes
Software: Cubase SL 1, Renoise 1.5
Title: A glimpse of Cold
Download the File Here
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Aw; I don’t know how to rate this yet, but seems as if Adobe is going to buy Macromedia.
A buyout usually leads to the End-Of-Life of most of the bought
companies products – or the merging of both companies technologies. As
Adobe is the company who buys Macromedia it’s clear that they’ll always
favourize their products instead the Macromedia ones.

Lets see what we have here:

Photoshop vs Fireworks

Photoshop is gonna be the clear winner, being one of the stealth Adobe
products. I don’t know enough about  Fireworks to judge which functions
might be worth being implemented in Photoshop, or even if there’s a use
in continuing the Fireworks line though.

Freehand vs. Illustrator:

Tough decision. I know that Freehand is widely accepted especially in
the fashion industry. And I think that these two applications are quite
seperate in terms of use and basic concepts. However, I think that
merging these two applications could turn out to give birth to a damn
fine application as there’re things I love in Illustrator which I miss
in Freehand, and there’re things I love in Freehand which I miss in
Illustrator.

Dreamweaver vs. GoLive:

Well, tough question; I love Dreamweaver, although I don’t really use
it that much, but that’s because I’m hardly doing design stuff anymore,
I’m mostly coding pure php or python or c, which works far better with
specialiced editors. However, everytime I have to do Html/CSS on a
bigger scale I tend use Dreamweaver as it features many nice tools
which help tremendously in the creation process. Golive, on the other
hand, sounds to be quite good too, but seems to be quite different to
Dreamweaver; So doing a switch wouldn’t be that easy. Adobe probably
prefers GoLive which could mark the death of Dreamweaver; Who knows,
but if – what a pity.

Flash vs. (I Forgot The Name):

There was that Flash competitor from Adobe (LiveMotion?). 100% Looser.
Flash wins on all battlefields. Although I don’t like the Flash MX 2004
IDE that much, but Flash 8 promises to be a helluva of a good product.
If Adobe are going to stall the Flash Application in favour of
Livemotion they’re  “A bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.”

I hope that they’re not going to treat the Macromedia products just
like Macromedia treated HomeSite back when they bought it.. Lets see
what the future brings. And I’m not even getting into monopoly problems
like lack of innovation;

I couldn’t create a Track-A-Day yesterday as I had no time to do so.
And even today it was quite difficult to find some time to work on a
track. However, I found some 20minutes and created a small trance
track. Nothing special, not the melody, nor the patches. Just usual
2001 trance style, but well, I always enjoy working on music, and I
might continue this track someday, it could have some potential.

• Length: 0:38 Minutes
• Software: Renoise 1.5
• Title: Plastipholia
• Download File Here

Hell Yes. Another Entry in my Track-A-Day enforcement. This time it’s
something very moody, still nothing one would dare to call a track
(it’s just under 1 minute). However this time I’m quite pleased with
the track. Aw, it’s already late, gotta go:

• Length: 0:58 Minutes
• Software: Renoise 1.5
• Title: Infinite Loom
• Download File Here

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