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Entries published on August 20, 2006

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Trying something new

Following up on yesterday’s feed subscription housecleaning, today I noticed that, if you buy a NewsFire license before day’s end you’ll get a nice bonus: Inquisitor thrown in free of charge.

Well, hot damn!

Inquisitor is really the big win for me here; I’m trying to get into the habit of using Safari as my day-to-day browser, since I’m doing lots of JavaScript stuff and — though this is in no way a knock against Dave Hyatt and the WebKit team, or the KHTML team — I’ve always tried to have a policy of using the least capable browser for whatever I’m working on at a given moment. Safari’s JavaScript support is getting better, but there’s stilll a ways to go; more robust support for the (admittedly non-standard) execCommand is apparently coming soon, and that will be a huge, huge win for anyone who’s ever beaten their head against the wall …

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