Xarg blog Archive

I added a stylesheet for printing. Of course my new favourite browser (Safari) ignores it completely. It seems to work well in Mozilla, although IE is printing the PNG's as black blobs. It does now print with a serif font which I find much more pleasant to read. I also really like the css href printing trick I found in CSS: Going to Print at A List Apart:

#content a:link:after, #content a:visited:after {
   content: " (" attr(href) ") ";
   font-size: 90%;
   }

#content a[href^="/"]:after {
   content: " (http://www.alistapart.com" attr(href) ") ";
   }

I looked at Textism hoping to find a good example of how to do it and was surprised that Dean Allen did not have a print stylesheet. I guess for a lot of bloggers who work at getting their CSS right (and it really seems to be people with blogs who provide most of the good CSS) don't really think their work is going to be printed so don't make a huge effort to get things to print nicely.

Now that I have a Mac I am trying out NetNewsWire from Ranchero Software. I like it a lot. The planned features for the Pro version sound good (especially the Metaweblog/blogger integration so you could post to your weblog from NetNewsWire). I do wish it had a way to display the unread entries from all subscriptions in one headline browsing window (currently it does not do anything sensible when you select multiple subscriptions other than let you mark them as read).

I have also been using Safari. It is really, really fast and with the exception of a couple sites like dive into mark seems to work great (and on dive into mark it fails to display the right links which I never really use anyway). It has spell checking built in which in my mind is an absolutely great feature and something it amazes me took so long to show up. One great thing to see is that they are contributing the code back to khtml. Another is that they are really listening to what the community says (every software vendor should have someone like Dave Hyatt out there). If they keep listening and keep working I have no doubt that Safari will end up being insanely great.