It seems Apple included a Safari update in their recent 2.1 firmware upgrade and have now opened up a few new things for web developers to play with, as Matthew Congrove blogs about on myDailyPhoto. His iPhone Safari Flick Navigation demo is really impressive and opens up new ways of serving web content to iPhone/iPod Touch users.
Browse the demo directly from your iPhone by clicking here. Article originally spotted on Ajaxian.
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m too used to things working out-of-the-box when it comes to applications. Maybe it’s because I’m on a Mac (at home). Maybe I’m a bit slow (a distinct possibility).
Today I tried to get a combination of Eclipse and FDT working, after two very clever ex-colleagues of mine highly recommended it as a better alternative to Flex Builder. After going for the PHP flavour of Eclipse on recommendation, I installed FDT through the Software Updates option within Eclipse. On restart I was prompted with memory warnings; that I needed to assign more memory to Eclipse. I thought this was a bit strange, as I was used to doing this years ago on Mac OS9 but hadn’t come across it so far on OS X. Anyways, I managed to sort this issue but then compiling my Hello World test required the Flex SDK being targeted. No biggie, but needed to tackle workarounds involving playerglobal.swc on the Mac. Eventually I published my swf from ActionScript.
Decided to try and publish some MXML. Learned that FDT seemingly doesn’t support it yet but that it’s coming soon. So, right now I’m in this kinda vague no mans land where I think I know I should kinda be checking out FDT, but I don’t appreciate why it’s so good and the workflow process that might be entailed with using it (especially if you’re also having to deal with MXML).
I’ll hopefully update this again once I’ve made further inroads into the process, but after day one checking it out I’m not sold yet. Is it better than working in Flex Builder 3 and/or Flash?
P.S. Hello Adam and Joe! Not THE Adam and Joe, although they are pretty funny themselves.
Apple have updated Safari to version 3.1 to include support for a lot of cutting-edge technology (including client-side database storage), along with adding a native developer dropdown (enabled within the preferences section). With Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 coming soon and, erm, IE8, it’s looking like the browser market is about to make web developer’s lives a lot more interesting soon.
By “interesting” I of course mean more difficult!
P.S. Visit this page in Safari 3.1 to see some funky CSS animation. Coo!
It seems Flash isn’t coming to the iPhone or the iPod Touch. Boo Steve Jobs.
I love my MacBook and am very glad I’ve largely moved over from Windows, but the keyboard freeze on the keyboard when the computer has been idol for a few minutes is very annoying. It doesn’t occur when I’ve an external keyboard plugged into the machine. Hopefully after I get the change to apply this update the built-in keyboard will play nice too.
Nice!. In German however, so I’m going to have to guess what some of the options are.
Well, I relented over the past weekend and bought a new black MacBook from the Apple store. Put it through its paces at work yesterday when I had to take notes during the day; the machine lasted at least 4-5 hours taking notes and still had battery power to spare! A big departure from my experiences with my Sony Vaio.
The machine doesn’t seem to run that hot at all, although I’ve yet to properly put it through its paces. I now have to re-educate myself on the Mac scene; all the essential tips, tricks, programs, etc.