125 posts tagged “apple”
2006
So long Safari?
All browsers have bugs—especially relating to fancy JavaScript stuff. Any truly complex web application is likely to run in to browser bugs, and fixing them takes a whole bunch of time. Bugs in IE and Firefox are pretty well understood, as are the workarounds for them.
[... 317 words]2005
Providing Application Access to SQL Data in Apple Remote Desktop 2 (via) Interesting—Apple’s Remote Desktop 2 runs off a PostgreSQL database.
Small, Cheap, and Without a Display. John Gruber’s analysis of the MacWorld expo.
2004
Daring Fireball: Security Cannot Be Spun. Apple’s communication handling of the recent security problem was atrocious.
Daring Fireball: A Big Garage. John Gruber thinks GarageBand demonstrates the essence of Apple’s target audience