Mark Woods of wood s lot told his readers “don’t miss this one” (scroll down) the other day, “this one” being, well, this blog. I’m flattered and humbled. Thanks Mark.
The case of the missing content
M-san of Nippon Daze and Hajimemashou was kind enough to send me the above visual proof of something that Nils of alive in kyoto commented on a couple of days ago: that in Apple’s new web browser Safari, the main content on the first page of this blog is missing! In other words, if you’re using Safari right now, then you are not actually reading this entry but rather staring at some lonely looking white space. Now, as any regular readers of this blog will know, I am quite capable of making my own content go MIA for weeks if not months at a time, so I really don’t need Apple’s aid in this regard.
I’ve checked Movable Type’s Support Forum, as well as Mark Pilgrim’s Safari information for web designers but so far nothing obvious has reared its head. And not having a Mac myself, tweaking and testing my CSS is not really that feasible. Considering that this is still a beta release of Safari that we’re talking about, I’m inclined to wait till a solution finds me rather than the other way around, though if anyone has any good ideas I’m all ears.
I suppose this is what I deserve for never having felt the desire to jump on the Apple bandwagon all these years (:
Good news on moblogging front
Read today at Six Apart that Mena Trott, co-developer of Movable Type, the software that this and countless other blogs are powered by, has bought a T-Mobile Sidekick device to play around with. Some folks have been using this to moblog with. That MT’s creators are exploring moblogging bodes well for MT to soon have support for posting from mobile devices as part of its product. As Mena herself writes:
How better to get the features you want in a tool than by convincing the developers that they need them for themselves?
(Truth be told, they had already indicated as much in MT’s Support Forum way back in July of last year, but it’s still good to read additional affirmation of this.)