The new Google Chrome web browser, uses the Apple WebKit engine for displaying its pages - which in turn is used to display pages in Safari. Webkit was built on the Konqueror browser on Linux.

Pages don’t render 100% exactly the same on these browsers compared to Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer - treat it as a completly new browser with its own quirks. Mainly pages render fine but tend to fail when positioning textual elements, as well as differences in the way padding works. Its weird, but you will see tiny errors which will bug the hell out of you in Chrome / Safari but don’t know how to fix.

Enter the Safari hack - shake this baby into line for we’ve got a hack coming and its not easy to remember, so best copy and paste this in your notebook for future reference (or bookmark this page).

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Just quickly stumbled upon this tool that allows you to use textareas within your forms, and dynamically change them into content editors ala word, etc.

Check it out – NicEdit.

Yes, IE6 was amazing, in 2001 the owners of end6.org proclaim, and yes - they are totally right.  They even provide a javascript that you can embed in your page, so that whenever a visitor with IE6 visits your page, the following warning sign appears:

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I’m always on the lookout for new fonts, they can say a lot more than just plain words alone.  Typography is an artform its-self, started by the newspaper industry carving out letters for the daily newspapers – most of today’s modern fonts owe it to these original purveyors of stylistic word-sculpting.

Taking a fresh look at things once in a while is a great thing, breaking away from the norms and “Web 2.0” as its coined is one of those evolutions in consciousness that was just waiting to happen (to this day we’re still waiting for Economy 2.0, since you can’t ignore to see the downturn kicking in).

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