Ever since the advent of iWeb some days ago, I’ve been wondering about the quality of the generated html pages. Those of you who already tried the html gallery export from iPhoto might know why I’m so interested in this subject: iPhoto’s html code is ugly. In undefinable ways – and the visual aspects of the generated pages aren’t good either, it’s actually kinda sad that a company which cares as much for outer appearance as Apple, manages to create such ugly galleries as iPhoto, but then again it’s probably menat as an encouragement to buy .Mac…
Anyways, I stumbled upon this iWeb generated Blog today and I’ve got mixed feelings about the code quality (please don’t mind the stylemac code, I had my fair share of Wordpress problems which resulted in some sort of ugly code which will be adressed soon though). There’re many uses of inline style attributes, examples:


style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; overflow: hidden; position: relative; background: #f4f4f4; height: 680px; width: 700px; " id="bodyContent"
or

style="height: 480px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 50px; width: 700px; " id="body_layer"

I’m sure that this could be implemented in a cleaner way too, regardless of browser or software constraints..

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iWeb Example
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Well, it’s happened. Apple officially has Intel chipsets working on comsumer level computers.

The first two Apple computers to use Intel Core Duo, a dual core chip, are the MacBook Pro and the iMac. The iMac starts at $1299 and the MacBook starts at $1999. Apple claims these new dual core processors are 2-4 times faster than the PowerPC chips that formerly powered Apple products.

Apple has also unveiled a program called “Rosetta.” Like the fabled Rosetta Stone for which it’s named, it translates PowerPC developed programs so that they will run on the new Intel based machines. Though, there are some programs that do not translate for one reason or another. Apple says that their PowerPC based Pro line of multimedia accessories will not work under Rosetta. Current owners of that set of programs will have to rebuy the components from Apple for a “minimal cost.”

Should you upgrade? If your iMac or MacBook isn’t very old, you should not worry about it unless you must have the newest technology.

I’ve been quite busy lately (workwise) and thus couldn’t invest enough time into Safarilicous to include everything which popped up latelty, but, judging by my current schedule, I think that I’ll make major progress this weekend so that I hope to release 0.79 within the next week. Still no Panther compatibility as I’ve yet to find time (and a machine) to install Panther onto. But I think a friend has an older iMac 233 (yes, Blueberry) which runs Panther, so I might find a solution here too.

The next version won’t be a Universal Binary either, although it shouldn’t be more than the switch of a button, but I might have access to an Mac OS X86 system soon, so I’ll just wait that bit so that I can actually test on X86. (Not that anybody would need an X86 version as Rosetta runs just fine ;) )

Free fonts are a difficult topic. Most of them are either totally specific (like a Coca Cola font, or “extreme distored arial”) which means they’re only usable for headlines or catchy phrases, and the rest is in the one or other way ugly. There’re few brilliant ones, and finding them can be worse than the obligatory needle in the haystack; so it’s really really nice that Vitaly Friedman collected his top twenty list of free fonts. (Which I, of course, immediately downloaded).

I’m sure you already heard or read about this, but it’s interesting news nevertheless.

The new iLive ‘06 Suite contains a nifty Web Application now: The so-called ‘iWeb’ it offers Apple-designed Templates, Flexible Website creation, an iLife Media Browser, Blogging, Podcasting and .Mac Publishing.

It has no built-in FTP support, but it allows to export a project to a folder, and you could transfer those files onto an ftp share yourself

The whole application looks a tad like the already previously available RapidWeaver, just that RapidWeaver contains more features.

Apple – iLife – iWeb