Linked List: October 4, 2004

Monday, 4 October 2004

Styling Form Controls 

Roger Johansson offers an extensive report on the ways you can use CSS to style web form controls, in all the major browsers, on both Mac OS X and Windows XP. A ton of work went into this; bravo.

(Via Dan Cederholm’s SimpleBits.)

Hack iChat to Paste as Plain Text 

iChat’s Paste command inexplicably supports text styles, which means that if you paste text from, say, a web page into iChat, the pasted text is in the color and font of the web page you copied it from. This is never what I want.

Mac Geekery has a nice tip showing how to hack iChat using Interface Builder to add a Paste as Plain Text command (or you could just change the built-in Paste command using the info in this tip). One small correction: where the tip says to use Cmd-I to open Interface Builder’s Info palette, you need to use Shift-Cmd-I.

Ava Marie Zeldman 

Wonderful news.

Security Update 2004-09-30 

Don’t let the name fool you; it was just released earlier today.

Macintouch.com 10th Anniversary 

Congratulations to Ric Ford on the tenth anniversary of the MacInTouch web site. Still no permalinks, alas.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: ‘iPod users are music thieves’ 

Andy McCue reporting for Silicon.com:

Billing Microsoft as the good guys and Apple the villains of the piece — at least as far as corporate America, rather than users, is concerned, Ballmer said: “We’ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen’.”

(Via Slashdot.)