I was watching CNN while having lunch a few minutes ago and saw on the ticker that Apple’s released a version of Safari for both XP and Vista.

According to Macworld this release happened about an hour ago.

I’m not a Mac or Safari user but I do test my sites in Safari and it will be nice not to have to pay a visit to Browsercam specifically for that purpose.

Generally I’ve found that Safari’s a bit worse than FF for having problems that need to be fixed when coding XHTML/CSS, and generally better than IE7 or 6 (but with different issues). It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out in the browser kingdom.

In a previous post I related an issue going on with my XP Pro-based machine yesterday, where the system font used in most app dialogs was suddenly larger and bolder. I posted a message on a group I belong to and got a great reference that helped me fix my XP font problem.

I followed the author’s Approach 3 and it worked like a charm. Here it is in shorthand:

1. Right-click on the desktop then click on Properties.
2. Go to the Settings tab and click on Advanced.
3. On the General tab, click the dropdown menu for DPI Setting and change it to 75% in the dialog box that pops up.
4. Restart the computer when prompted.
5. After restarting, do the same sequence of tasks and reset the DPI Setting to 100%.
6. Restart again when prompted.

This worked perfectly and thank God I didn’t have to reinstall XP Pro.

I’m having a weird issue… yesterday when I turned on my machine, the smallish light Arial-like font that shows up in many application dialogs is gone and replaced by a much larger bold font.

I didn’t get any errors and definitely didn’t delete any fonts. I ran a full virus sweep and didn’t catch anything either.

Here’s what WS_FTP Pro looks like now:

http://www.parallaxwebdesign.com/text.jpg

I’m using Linotype FontExplorer to manage my fonts, and I checked through there too to see if I’d deactivated something by mistake but no. Any ideas?

It came to my attention over the weekend that the page referred to in this previous post is no longer available. So I’ll just post the script here.

< ?
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$arry_txt = preg_split("/--NEXT--/", join('',
file("featured_flower.txt")));
echo $arry_txt[rand(0, sizeof($arry_txt) -1)];
?>

Put this wherever you want the rotation to play, and link to a text file with your quotes, links to images on your server, etc. (mine is linking to a quote file ‘featured_flower.txt’ that also includes images). You can see a bit of the text file here.

I hope this makes sense. It’s a great little script and you can style it by putting it in a CSS div.