By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: October 1, 2008
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
- The Lake Wobegon Distribution ★
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This is why math nerds love baseball.
- WebKit Web Inspector Redesign ★
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More great work from Apple’s WebKit team, including a new built-in JavaScript debugger.
- Helvetica Revival Monopoly ★
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Speaking of Helvetica, this is gorgeous. (Via Chris Glass.)
- New iPhone-Optimized Mobile Flickr Web Site ★
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The new version only appears if you’re using MobileSafari. If you’re not, take my word for it, it’s splendid. Maybe the best iPhone-optimized web site I’ve seen anywhere.
Typographical Interpolation: I have one niggle. They’re using Arial instead of Helvetica. There are reasonable arguments to be made for specifying Arial before Helvetica in CSS for a general-purpose web site, due to the way Helvetica renders on Windows. But for an iPhone-specific web site, there is no reason at all. There are two types of people in the world: those who can’t tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica, and those who despise Arial.
- Craig Hockenberry on iPhone Inter-App Communication Using URL Schemes ★
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As we settle in to our glorious post-fucking-NDA world, Craig Hockenberry posts example code showing how iPhone apps can communicate with each other via custom URL schemes.
- Apple Drops iPhone NDA for Released Software ★
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Hallelujah:
We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before. While we have filed for hundreds of patents on iPhone technology, the NDA added yet another level of protection. We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software. Developers will receive a new agreement without an NDA covering released software within a week or so. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.
There’s no byline attached, but it reads like one of those once-a-year open letters from Steve Jobs. Same formatting, including the use of Verdana 12px as the body font, as “Thoughts on Music”. Tell-tale sentence: “It has happened before.”
- Google Search, Circa 2001 ★
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I love it:
In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.
Only available for one month. All sorts of things I now take for granted weren’t there yet.