Keeping with the Javascript theme of my last entry, I’d like to share one of the ways I’ve used Safari’s AppleScript accessible javascript model to improve the quality of my web browsing experience. It occurred to me one day while reading some long article on Salon.com that something had been bothering me for a long […]

URL Escaping is what causes those yucky percent-signs and numeric digits to show up sometimes in the middle of your otherwise perfectly legible URLs. These percent-escaped values are necessary because the list of allowed characters for a URL doesn’t cover many of the common punctuation marks we like to use, and also fails to cover […]

I guess the last bug report got me in the mood, and since it’s 11:55 here in Somerville, I have time to write up a quickie that I just noticed again, while investigating the other bug I reported tonight! This is an obscure bug, but part of my reason for sharing it in a post […]

When I first read Dan Wood’s plan for Report-An-Apple-Bug Friday, I was amused but a little disgruntled by the idea. Turns out this once long-term Apple employee has a bit more loyalty than he thought he did. Or is it just empathy? The part that turned me off was the idea that everybody should cooperate […]