Tag: safari

How do you hide a browser like Safari?

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More tales from the very super secret design and pre-release days of Safari from Don Melton. So, secrecy. We weren’t under physical lockdown like Jony Ive’s design group was then, or like the iPhone team would be years later. But unless you knew who to look for, you were never going to find us on campus…. Twitter and Facebook didn’t exist then. Nobody at Apple was stupid enough to blog about work, so what was I worried about? Server logs. They scared the hell out of me. When a Web browser fetches a page from a Web server, the browser

When Browsers Are Named…

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A delightful tale from Don Melton. “What… is it?” I asked with my teeth nearly clenched. “Safari,” Kurt whispered. I didn’t say anything. But Kurt must have noticed that I was more relaxed. “Dazed” as he described it to me later. Probably a little stupider looking than usual, too. “What do you think?” he asked. I honestly didn’t know what to think. My mind was a blank because I just didn’t expect it. The name seemed to come out of nowhere. It sounded more foreign at that moment than its actual origin. “It doesn’t suck,” I finally offered.

Writing About Considering Everything

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I’ve started to do some writing over on the Blogger Advocacy section of Creative Choices, a website set up to “[help] individuals takie control of their own career decisions [by making sure] they are well informed and supported in their desire to succeed. My first post is about browser and computing compatibility online: In extreme circumstances, where a website doesn’t load correctly, you might have people skipping over your site purely because it doesn’t work 100% perfectly in their web browser, even if the information they’re looking for is in front of them.. Woe betide you if you pop up