Even though this site was originally created on my (now deceased) G4 Powerbook.. I noticed today that it looks like garbage in Safari. Mostly font related issues, but, as I don’t have a Mac anymore and so many of my homies do, I have no real way of fixing this problem but it does need to be fixed. Someone let me know if anything looks totally busted in Safari and I will do my best to fix it..
What is kind of funny is how this site was developed originally on a PowerPC-based Mac using Safari, then I was forced to use a Dell notebook after my Powerbook ate it, and now I am typing this post from my new AMD64 ‘Buntu Box. I’ve spanned three operating systems and coincidentally three hardware architectures since I started this non-stop forum for bitching and complaining.
Of course, no one thinks that cool but me. Off to the Nerdery with me!!
I wonder how close Safari is to Konqueror? That’s the web browser in the K Desktop envornment, which is what Apple based Safari on (then gave source code changes, complete with changelogs, back to Konqueror development team - go open source!). That doesn’t have anything to do with your problem - It’s mostly fonts, which IMHO still look best on the Mac.
I think it’s cool… I think back to when I first started playing with Wordpress and decided to create a blog online with it (with the domain I had had for years that I only used for email). I was using an IBM Thinkpad running Gentoo Linux. Fast forward two and a half years and I bounce between the Intel-based 20″ iMac at work, a G4 Powerbook, a Dell laptop running Ubuntu Linux, or my junked together P4 desktop running Ubuntu that I’m typing this comment on. Combined with the Sun machine that does a lot of the functions in my home network (running Linux of course) that’s a few different architectures every day!
It’s all just ones and zeros though - usually arranged in 8-bit chunks.
It seems like more of the media and education software is geared toward KDE. I wonder why KDE has that distinction. I think Edubuntu and Medibuntu are really awesome ideas, I’d love to see more done to bring Linux to the music industry. Hearing all of these musicians bitching about how people are ripping off their music on Peer to Peer networks and then dropping 10 grand on a MacBook portable studio is kind of bonkers.
I think some of the reason fonts like “Futura” were even used on this site was because I was using my Mac that had them preloaded when I got it. I didn’t really care if it looked great on other platforms because most everyone I knew had a Mac at the time and I just wanted it to look good for them and be functional for everyone else. I guess now I just want it to be functional. Someday I’ll have the time for low-quality v.2.0