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Wedesday, January 8, 2003
Wow. Incredible. 
| | We won. A total underdog victory story. |
DigWhyD
| | As for my response, I'll just point to the first thing I wrote on the whole subject, and especially to what my wife said in the first paragraph: |
| | Back in 1995 or so, when my wife started using a browser, she came up with a wish list of features that nobody has come close to filling over the seven years since. One was a shopping cart that would persist from one site to the next. Another was a pull-down menu called ``purse'' that would contain credit cards and other identity items required for doing business in the world. Neither would be owned or provided by one vendor (not even the browser's). Instead they would be features of the user's own identity as an autonomous customer in the marketplace. |
| | In other words, she wanted the browser to be an instrument of demand, rather than of supply. |
| | We need a new DigID invention that mother's necessity. Something that enables the marketplace to make itself. We don't have it. And we won't get it from the usual BigCo suspects, either. |
What it isn't
| | Spent yesterday day at Macworld. Lots of good conversations and interviews; but no convergence of bandwidth and time, so I haven't blogged it yet. |
| | Missed my train back to Palo Alto, so I'm crashing in the City on a couch. It's 12:30am and I need some sleep, so I can wake up refreshed and ready to work on some stuff for Linux Journal before I head in for more meetings. |
| | Meanwhile, I'll throw in my few cents worth of reactions to some of the new products Apple introduced yesterday. |
| | Safari browser. It's fast and slick and I like the way it handles bookmarks and histories; but there are several drawbacks that back-burner it for me. Those include: |
| | - No form auto-fill (or form management of any kind, at least as far as I can find)
- No way to turn off anti-aliasing
- No image icons for graphics files drag-copied to a directory
- Link URLs don't appear anywhere during mouseover (NOT! I got a pile of emails about that one. The status bar comes turned off by default.)
- No cookie management. (Might be wrong on that one too.)
- Seems to have a problem with some blogs. (Folks are working on this, I understand.)
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| | Keynote presentation softare. It's beautiful, rich, deep and mostly about beautiful visual presentations. (Steve said it was "built for me," so how could it be otherwise?) But its outlining is barely there and it doesn't seem to have a gallery view. Again, at first glance. I'm sure I'm missing a lot there. |
| | New 17" AiBook (or WiBook): It may be light; but it's as big as a placemat, which makes it too big to use in most coach seats, and too big for most bags as well, I suspect. Lots of nice features, though; especially the keyboard, which lights up blue in the dark. |
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