06.25.07
Monday Camino Fun
An eagle-eyed fan of our favorite browser spotted Camino in the BBC’s on-air ads for its website. That’s right, millions of Britons (and others around the world?) seeing Camino on TV! Pinkerton must have died and gone to heaven. 
(It’s actually Camino 1.0—hey, BBC ad folks, be sure to upgrade to 1.5 for your next spots 
—but cool nonetheless. First person to guess how I knew it’s Camino 1.0 and not 1.5 wins a fabulous ardisson.org prize—bragging rights as “mind-reader of the moment.”)
Update: Chris Lawson notes that the BBC has been using Camino in screenshots on the web for a while, but this is still a whole new level of cool.
Camino doesn’t often get a lot of “high-profile” internet press like “that other browser”—we do have a few fans like tech journalist and blogger Om Malik, browser polygamist extraordinaire (and our very own “staff” designer) Jon Hicks, noted purveyor of Mac nerdery John Gruber, and a couple of others I’m forgetting (sorry!) who write about Camino releases regularly—so it’s always nice to see a new fan among the movers-and-shakers of the web world. Today we hear that noted web standards advocate (and more) Molly Holzschlag is also a Camino fan.
It’s a fun Monday.
June 25, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Well we use bbc.co.uk in our advertising/screenshots as well. Coincidence? I think not.
June 25, 2007 at 11:11 pm
It is all in the toolbar, in between the search box and location box …
(a friend who switched to a Mac recently jumped straight to Camino. Only fired up Safari for downloading it. Imagine that).
June 26, 2007 at 12:20 am
Philippe, that’s a correct answer, but it’s not the “mind-reading” one (right widget, different difference).
(The difference I spotted is one of the little things that really bothers me about that bit of toolbar UI, but I’m not sure how we can fix it practically.)
As for the latter, it’s good to see that browsers-in-the-OS serve some noble purpose.
I do remember the old days when downloading a browser without a browser, or an FTP client without an FTP client, was quite an unpleasant catch-22….
August 14, 2007 at 7:06 am
I hate to tell you this, but less than a handful of Brits will have seen that - BBC World isn’t broadcast in the UK, its sister station News 24 is, instead.