Thoughts on application development and web development en-uk CC I'am so tired of Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft, they all need to sit down together and share in the profits when anything is sold over any desktop computer or mobile browser in the world. How can any of them lose when billions of people around are already using their products? As a designer /developer it is so confusing and they continue to make it very hard for us to develop one shot applications and web pages for home computers and mobile platform web sites. These companies make so much money and act like little pre-school kids when it comes down to making applications that work across all mobile and desktop computer browsers. None of these companies will ever go broke in their life time. What they should do is sign an agreement split up and all share in the profits made online from any thing that is sold online equally from any app that will work on any computer. This way we designer/developers can do what we do best. It should not be about who controls the worlds browsers ? It should be about giving users a better experience since they are all millionaires and billionaire’s already plus they would just make more money. If they did it right then anyone who would try to come in and make a better browser ? They would have to compete with all three of the big boys who are now working together and have it all locked up. Even doe if they did work together some where in the far off future someone like myself or you reading this article could blind side all of them and create a new app that would knock all of them out of the box completely. Yeah that sounds real good, don't it, I hope somebody would develop an app that works across all of the world's browsers and make all of the big boys fighting realize they should have gotten together in the first place because now their would be a new company on the market that took all of the desktop and mobile browsers and made all of them work together and that company will not take any pay offs from them to keep their new 360 degree browser off the market ! That would be real funny to see all of the big boys ? Lose the browser wars all together. Remember apple, adobe, and Microsoft, are not starving like we are and they couldn't go broke if they tried. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/75 I believe the Yoigo settings are: APN: internet No username or password is required. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/74 I face the same situation: I already have my Iphone and I want to use it with Yoigo, the problem is that they don't manage to do the right settings on my Iphone. Do you know how I can resolve it ? http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/74 Six months later and I can stand CS4 a little more, but one can only hope that the CS5 release on the horizon is more of an optimisation release rather than a cram-in-as-many-more-features-as-we-can release. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/72 CS4 is going to send me to the insane asylum. My eyes twitch with the flashing UI elements, Flash crashes, and Illustrator is not compatible with CS3 files. Based on the 6 designers here using it, CS3 to CS4 has to be the biggest failure since QuarkXPress 3.3 tried to go to QuarkXPress 5. Check this out: http://bit.ly/aY5X7p or http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/does_adobe_really_give_refunds_refund_for_cs4_3_1_2_months_of_lies http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/72 CS4 is buggy as shit. Clone stamp is buggy, scaling is buggy, slower refresh rates, the whole thing is a mess of a program. Back to CS3 for me. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/72 Unfortunately, though development has stalled, there are no plans for making this application open-source. Sorry! http://www.khaitu.com/projects/view/0 Will you consider going open source with this application? http://www.khaitu.com/projects/view/0 No, but it would be very easy to write a script that could do that for you. Either way, with the upcoming release of Snow Leopard, the need to run a 32-bit version of Apache would surely stop making sense? http://www.khaitu.com/projects/view/0 I use macports and have a separate apache install due to the 64-bit nature of the stock leopard apache. Do you know of a preference pane which could start and stop apache installed at a different location e.g. /opt/local/apache2? http://www.khaitu.com/projects/view/0 Have you tried iTunes DJ? It is heaps good and seems to randomise songs more like how you would expect. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/71 I can't believe how buggy CS4 is and the lack of people complaining about it. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/72 It most certainly does. Mobile operators give uncertain answers probably because the salespeople have never tried or they don't want to guarantee something which is not official. Yoigo is a great solution for pay-as-you-go users in Spain wanting to use their iPhones and coverage should be good in Barcelona too. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/74 Does the 3G really work on iPhone without contract? I'm in Barcelona trying to shop for a prepaid SIM card and having the hardest time trying to find a consensus answer. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/74 Hmm... Yeah I've been very scared to upgrade myself to the new cs4 packages, but I am very much sold on the contextual scaling http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/72 Agreed! Its uber lames, I feel kinda jibbed :( http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/71 It sounds like you're trying to use Mapache on OS X Tiger. It will not work - Leopard is the minimum system requirement. Sorry! To uninstall, simply remove the preference pane from: ~/Library/PreferencePanes/ or if you installed it for all users: /Library/PreferencePanes/ http://www.khaitu.com/projects/view/0 Fascinating. Thanks for that insight! I haven't run into this problem since though as the use of libraries such as jQuery make getElementsByClassName unnecessary and actually long-winded. In any case, if one were to snub libraries, the querySelectorAll method would be more efficient. I do wonder however whether querySelectorAll caches elements as well. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/65 There is a much better work around. getElementsByClassName is not broken, as such, but has a preformance feature for which your did not account. function switchActive( x ) { var parentEl = document.getElementById( 'animals' ); var activeList = getElementsByClassName( 'active' ); for (var i = 0, j = activeList.length; i < j; i++) { if (activeList[i]) removeAttribute( 'active' ); } parentEl.getElementsByTagName( 'li' )[x].setAttribute( 'class', 'active' ); } This issue is that Safari caches the list of elements that matched based on the exact class name (a trailing space makes a difference). The next time the same class name is sought it uses the previous "array" setting to null any array elements where the HTML element no longer has the class in question and adding any new elements the now have the class. I'm sure this increases the performance of subsequent calls to getElementByClassName; although, it would have been better to remove the "array" element. But, the "fix" is simply to check that the "array" element is not null before working with it. http://www.khaitu.com/articles/view/65 You will need to use the native Qt3 for this to work. If you are using MacPorts , you may as well use the MacPorts Amarok. http://www.khaitu.com/projects/view/5