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> But we did have great seats, just a few rows from the front — you didn’t want to be too close in case something really went wrong. I wonder what that means.
> But we did have great seats, just a few rows from the front — you didn’t want to be too close in case something really went wrong. I wonder what that means.
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Surprise, I would hope. :) And lack of recognition, I suppose.
Don, i am trying to understand why you (not you in person but Apple) went the open source route for safari but not for itunes etc. Can it be that, at that moment when you made the decision, web sites 'made for internet explorer', were too many. And you wanted the rendering engine on Mac to be widespread by getting from and giving to an open source project.
I'd like to hear about how WebKit went mobile for the iPhone. Eg if Apple worked with Nokia and their port of WebKit to Symbian, or started their own port from scratch.
You must be kidding.
Let's say the browser user agent leaked or some enterprising reporter figured out what Apple was up to. What would have gone differently in that alternate universe?
I'd like to hear about how WebKit went mobile for the iPhone. Eg if Apple worked with Nokia and their port of WebKit to Symbian, or started their own port from scratch.
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Surprise, I would hope. :) And lack of recognition, I suppose.
Don, i am trying to understand why you (not you in person but Apple) went the open source route for safari but not for itunes etc. Can it be that, at that moment when you made the decision, web sites 'made for internet explorer', were too many. And you wanted the rendering engine on Mac to be widespread by getting from and giving to an open source project.
Had KHTML been licensed under a BSD or MIT license, the browser world could potentially be very different from what it currently is.
Just watched the Keynote announcement of Safari and I finally understand what 'Snapback' is (was?) I have been using a Mac since 2005 and never figured out what it did, then I stopped noticing it was even there.
Too late! The feature was removed (I think quite some time ago). Ok, admittedly it’s still there in the menu, but no longer given any space in the UI. I understood what it was but I also never used it. It sounds useful, but somehow isn’t for some reason, at least that’s the case for me. I wonder whether there were ever any number of people who really used the feature. That also goes to show that just having a useful…