Comments on: Requiem for a rendering engine http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/ A journal at al-Qâhira fî Amrîkâ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:41:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mtmildew http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6041 mtmildew Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:45:29 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6041 Hi. I just had to comment in iCab. I have been using iCab since 1999. I liked it so much that I did pay for it in 2004...well over due, I thought. It became my primary brower then. I had no trouble using it for banking either. It has out shined all the other browsers. If I had a problem I would email Alexander Clauss and he actually would take the time to respond!! You can't find that happening with the other browsers. He is brilliant!! I am now using iCab 4.0.1 Beta 30. I have found that whenever there is a problem it is quickly fixed! I belong to the Yahoo group for iCab and I will view the comments and answers, however, I have found that Alexander Clauss is right on top of any so called problems. Example: the large icons.... That seems to have been fixed. Go into your "View" "Customize Toolbar" and click in the box at the bottom to "Use small size". There, it's small. I love this browser!!! Hi. I just had to comment in iCab. I have been using iCab since 1999. I liked it so much that I did pay for it in 2004…well over due, I thought. It became my primary brower then. I had no trouble using it for banking either.
It has out shined all the other browsers. If I had a problem I would email Alexander Clauss and he actually would take the time to respond!! You can’t find that happening with the other browsers. He is brilliant!!

I am now using iCab 4.0.1 Beta 30. I have found that whenever there is a problem it is quickly fixed!

I belong to the Yahoo group for iCab and I will view the comments and answers, however, I have found that Alexander Clauss is right on top of any so called problems. Example: the large icons…. That seems to have been fixed. Go into your “View” “Customize Toolbar” and click in the box at the bottom to “Use small size”. There, it’s small.

I love this browser!!!

]]> By: Smokey http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6037 Smokey Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:57:04 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6037 As the above trackback indicates, Juan de Dios Santander has posted a Spanish translation of this article on <a href="http://www.entremaqueros.com/bitacoras/memoria/?p=870" rel="nofollow">his blog</a>. :-) As the above trackback indicates, Juan de Dios Santander has posted a Spanish translation of this article on his blog. :-)

]]> By: Memoria de Acceso Aleatorio » Requiem por un motor de visualización web http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6036 Memoria de Acceso Aleatorio » Requiem por un motor de visualización web Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:50:07 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6036 [...] artículo es una traducción de una entrada lamentando la desaparición del motor de visualización web d.... Ardisson es uno de los desarrolladores de Camino, el navegador web basado en el motor de [...] [...] artículo es una traducción de una entrada lamentando la desaparición del motor de visualización web d…. Ardisson es uno de los desarrolladores de Camino, el navegador web basado en el motor de [...]

]]> By: Memoria de Acceso Aleatorio » del.icio.us: Requiem por iCab 3, el motor web basado en estándares creado por un solo hombre; Hoefler & Frere-Jones, tipógrafos http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6020 Memoria de Acceso Aleatorio » del.icio.us: Requiem por iCab 3, el motor web basado en estándares creado por un solo hombre; Hoefler & Frere-Jones, tipógrafos Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:02:56 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6020 [...] افكار و احلام » Requiem for a rendering engineRequiem por iCab: iCab 3 dispuso, durante 3 años de un motor web creado por una única persona, que fue el segundo —tras WebKit— en pasar el test Acid2… y ahora deja paso a ICab 4, basado en WebKit.(tags: webkit icab software html rendering engine)Hoefler & Frere-JonesWeb de las tipografías de Hoefler y Frere-Jones… posiblemente una de las más bellas que he visto en mucho tiempo. Pero es que me encanta una buena tipografía…(tags: hoefler frere-jones typography website) [...] [...] افكار و احلام » Requiem for a rendering engineRequiem por iCab: iCab 3 dispuso, durante 3 años de un motor web creado por una única persona, que fue el segundo —tras WebKit— en pasar el test Acid2… y ahora deja paso a ICab 4, basado en WebKit.(tags: webkit icab software html rendering engine)Hoefler & Frere-JonesWeb de las tipografías de Hoefler y Frere-Jones… posiblemente una de las más bellas que he visto en mucho tiempo. Pero es que me encanta una buena tipografía…(tags: hoefler frere-jones typography website) [...]

]]> By: Juan de Dios Santander http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6019 Juan de Dios Santander Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:58:52 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6019 Loved to read the article… I wonder if I could get your permission to translate it into Spanish and post it in my blog! And prosperous 2008, by the way! Loved to read the article… I wonder if I could get your permission to translate it into Spanish and post it in my blog!

And prosperous 2008, by the way!

]]> By: Jen http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6016 Jen Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:48:09 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6016 Hi, Oh honourable Arabic smoker - long time no hear! We all miss you :). Moving on. . . Andy makes a good suggestion (Apple should hire Alexander . . .), but what a cruel thing to do to a free thinker! Alexander & Jobs would probably last about point oh five ms together. No. Keep buying your friends the occasional iCab licence so he has a cash flow, and sit back and watch the innovations flow. Sorry to all our WinBox only users - you can never have experienced using an app that followed Woz et al's excellent (original Mac) user interface guidelines. Old Mac users know just how productive such an interface is, and Alexander is one of the few remaining developers who understand the basic concept. With all it's (now very few) hiccups, iCab is just sooo usable as a result. Again my primary browser. Web access flows, sooo easily and well that now it (v4) is allowed into my bank & broker's sites, I find I have a lot of spare time each day which had disappeared when the browser sniffing became hyper, and iCab was so often broke, and I had to bear the cludge of 'other' browsers. I personally think it is gorgeous that AC has turned the sniffing tables in v4, and now, with 'View | Browser Identity . . | Indentity for best compatibility' selected I can get into any site, with a grin on my face at AC's gall and again, originality. Sniffing browser sniffers! Huge grin. Cheers, Jen Hi, Oh honourable Arabic smoker – long time no hear! We all miss you :) .

Moving on. . .

Andy makes a good suggestion (Apple should hire Alexander . . .), but what a cruel thing to do to a free thinker! Alexander & Jobs would probably last about point oh five ms together.

No. Keep buying your friends the occasional iCab licence so he has a cash flow, and sit back and watch the innovations flow.

Sorry to all our WinBox only users – you can never have experienced using an app that followed Woz et al’s excellent (original Mac) user interface guidelines. Old Mac users know just how productive such an interface is, and Alexander is one of the few remaining developers who understand the basic concept. With all it’s (now very few) hiccups, iCab is just sooo usable as a result. Again my primary browser.

Web access flows, sooo easily and well that now it (v4) is allowed into my bank & broker’s sites, I find I have a lot of spare time each day which had disappeared when the browser sniffing became hyper, and iCab was so often broke, and I had to bear the cludge of ‘other’ browsers.

I personally think it is gorgeous that AC has turned the sniffing tables in v4, and now, with ‘View | Browser Identity . . | Indentity for best compatibility’ selected I can get into any site, with a grin on my face at AC’s gall and again, originality. Sniffing browser sniffers! Huge grin.

Cheers, Jen

]]> By: Andy http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6007 Andy Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:15:36 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6007 Apple should hire Alexander to work on the WebKit and/or Safari teams. At the very least he should be a contributor to the WebKit development svn Apple should hire Alexander to work on the WebKit and/or Safari teams. At the very least he should be a contributor to the WebKit development svn

]]> By: LKM http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6006 LKM Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:00:45 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6006 Here's another feature iCab has had first: Hold down a modifier to open a link in a new window. For a long time, iCab was my main browser. I used to code all of my HTML using iCab as the reference browser. First, I made iCab happy. That would usually result in sites that worked everywhere (with some graceful degradation for features only supported in iCab) except IE. Then, I'd break the site for IE :-) Something else that just occured to me: Woz used to be an iCab user. He often commented on things on the iCab list, I think. Here’s another feature iCab has had first: Hold down a modifier to open a link in a new window.

For a long time, iCab was my main browser. I used to code all of my HTML using iCab as the reference browser. First, I made iCab happy. That would usually result in sites that worked everywhere (with some graceful degradation for features only supported in iCab) except IE. Then, I’d break the site for IE :-)

Something else that just occured to me: Woz used to be an iCab user. He often commented on things on the iCab list, I think.

]]> By: hackd » one-man deal http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-6002 hackd » one-man deal Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:33:25 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-6002 [...] I haven’t used iCab more than a trial, once, and found some things unpleasant about its UI. But I read it’s a decent browser, functionally. What’s more, it’s been written (complete with the rendering engine it was using on version 3) by one single person. [...] [...] I haven’t used iCab more than a trial, once, and found some things unpleasant about its UI. But I read it’s a decent browser, functionally. What’s more, it’s been written (complete with the rendering engine it was using on version 3) by one single person. [...]

]]> By: Smokey http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-5996 Smokey Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:29:03 +0000 http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2008/01/01/requiem-for-a-rendering-engine/#comment-5996 Wysiwyg, I agree; I think the toolbar icons are the worst thing about iCab 4 (followed closely by the tabs, which feel too big and heavy). I emailed Alexander shortly after the release and asked about supporting custom icon sets like previous iCab versions did, and his reply was something along the lines of “maybe in the future.” Wysiwyg, I agree; I think the toolbar icons are the worst thing about iCab 4 (followed closely by the tabs, which feel too big and heavy). I emailed Alexander shortly after the release and asked about supporting custom icon sets like previous iCab versions did, and his reply was something along the lines of “maybe in the future.”

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