New Apple toys, with footnotes
At Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference keynote speech yesterday, Steve Jobs revealed all sorts of exciting new stuff: new ultra-fast desktop Mac coming in August, iChat AV (lets you do videoconferencing using iChat if you have a FireWire video camera—we could do SH fiction-editor meetings with video, but I don't think Karen has a Mac), iSight (mini video camera that clips onto a laptop screen), preview of the next OS release (due in a couple months, with several cool new features), mention that iTunes music store has sold five million songs in eight weeks, etc.
But by far the most important bit of news was that Apple has released Safari 1.0, in which a minor bug regarding CSS positioning has been fixed, which means that my footnotes page now works properly in Safari! Dave Hyatt had told me six weeks ago (when I asked about it) that the bug was known and that it might get fixed for 1.0, but not to count on it, so I was very pleased that the fix made it in. Sadly, Netscape 7 (both Windows and Mac) still has this bug, so my approach to footnotes won't work in NS. But at least IE and Safari do the right thing.
Also sadly, Safari 1.0 doesn't provide the capability of using the keyboard to tab to a dropdown menu. OS X provides that ability in many apps (if you enable a preference in the Keyboard prefs in System Preferences), but it's not there in Safari yet. I'm hoping it'll show up in a future release; that's really my only serious problem with Safari at this point.