Saturday, October 21st, 2006 at 9:51 pm under Work, Tech
Update: Development on Swift has resumed! You can download the new 0.2 version from the Swift site.
It all started a couple of weeks ago when a client kept sending revisions for their website. We were confused as his revisions concerned portions of the site that didn’t seem broken, at least to us.
Later, it was discovered that the client exclusively uses a Mac and Safari was rendering our work differently. Borrowing a Mac from the company’s execs wasn’t really an option, so I went around looking for a way to view sites the way Safari would render them. I came a cross browsercam sites BrowsrCamp and iCapture but both were slow and overall an inefficient way to tackle the problem.
Eventually, I came across a few sites making mention of a Windows browser called Swift that utilized WebKit just like Safari. I discovered that the project, while still in it’s alpha stages, seems to have been abandoned. Scouring the web for mirrors, I found that there were none. I wasn’t able to find any mention of it on WebKit’s site, as if the project was erased from history. Disappointed, I made it a point to try looking for it again sometime in the future, perhaps something will come up.
A few days ago, I came across Dave’s post. He had a copy of the files for Swift! I downloaded it immediately and attempted to run it. It gave me an error, citing something about the configuration. I contacted Dave and he provided the proper installer for Swift. I tried again but this time I got errors saying something about being unable to register WebKit.dll. After a quick search of the phrase in the error on Google, I discovered that I needed some Visual Studio runtime libraries to get it to run. So I installed the libraries, reinstalled Swift and it worked!
I tried the client’s site again and it was showing the same bugs as the ones I saw on the browser cam site. I never in my life thought that I’d be so glad to see such glaring and consistent errors.
Thanks Dave.
- Swift Browser mirror (21MB, zipped)
If you get an error that says it’s unable to register WebKit.dll, you need to install this:
- Visual Studio 2005 runtime libraries (2.5MB)
Take note that Swift never left the alpha stages, you may experience frequest crashes and be aware that forms do not work.
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 2:26 pm under Tech, Ramblings
As much as I want to summarize this entire post by saying “Internet Explorer 7 is fucking gay,” it won’t really explain why Microsoft’s latest release of IE crushed my hopes of less frustrating work.
This blog looks fine on Firefox and Opera. Even on Linux (Firefox) and Mac (Safari), the only glitch is the search field which gets a bit wider than it should be. Heck, it even looks fine on IE6.
On IE7, the footer at the bottom by some means of forbidden arcane magic moves up considerably and covers certain portions of the site. I have no idea how it got there and why it’s only happening on this supposedly improved browser. I played around with my CSS to try and fix it, but I already had this feeling that it would amount to nothing.
My temporary quick fix is this conditional comment:
<!–[if lte IE 6]>
Footer code goes here
<![endif]–>
I enclosed my footer in that so IE7 would ignore the code and seal off whatever ancient magics put in place by Microsoft’s development team. I’ll keep it in there until I figure out exactly what the problem is and fix it. Not the best course of action, but I doubt anyone will miss seeing the copyright text and page rendering speed for the time being.
Friday, October 13th, 2006 at 12:45 am under Play
After three days of working in-between work and life, I’ve can finally say that my new splash is ready. Just in time for Friday the 13th too. View it here: muymra.com.
I also made a wallpaper version of it for download.
-The Triumvirate (deviantart)
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 at 2:17 pm under Play
I’m working on a new splash page for muymra.com. It’s almost been one year since I put up the Halloween necromancer splash, I think it’s about time I changed it.
The silhouette above is a teaser of what I’m working on. I’m gonna go old school on this one, expect a medieval fantasy look.
Monday, October 2nd, 2006 at 4:59 pm under Work
We need some. Seriously, going from 7 people down to 3 is so not funny. I’ve managed to find the contact info of someone who has ties to MMA students at Benilde, perhaps he can find some for us. Mental note: must send him email later.
If you can help or are interested, leave a comment or use that meebo widget on the sidebar if I’m online.
