Friday Minute

According to a number cruncher over at MacNN, Apple surpased Gateway in unit shipments and sales last quarter. Who's "beleaguered" now?

Lines and Splines breaks down the typographical changes in the revamped Wall Street Journal. Choice quote:

In the past few weeks there's been a lot written about The Wall Street Journal's redesign. Most of it has focused on the color panels, new editorial features, shifting demographics, etc. It's not surprising then that the type has been overlooked.

A shining example of weblogs covering details most mass media outlets cut.

Flash MX on Mac OS 9 is a big fat memory hog. For whatever reason, the default memory requirement is a whopping 136MB, while Flash 5 was only 39MB. For a comparison, Photoshop 7, which you would expect to eat more memory, requires 52MB. Odd. Maybe their programmer's solution for Flash 5 stability issues was to jack up the memory to ridiculous heights. For the record, Flash MX under OS X is more stable and responsive.

Quick! Run, don't walk, to CNN.com and vote in their "Quick Vote" (right side, halfway down) if you do not want to see the inevitable Robert Blake trial be televised live. So far, 70% of viewers don't want to see it. Let's hope we can push that number a little higher. Last thing we need is a return to O.J.

Four years in the making, Mozilla 1.0 is almost ready for take off (and probable inclusion in the next build of AOL). Mozilla.org has just released Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 1, and thus far it looks really good. Noticeably faster page rendering on my Mac than IE 5.1. Now if only they could fix text wrapping in textarea form fields.

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Posted by: DVG at April 19, 2002 1:41 PM