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Coda Notes: a Safari Extension

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I'm sorry for the off-topic but I can't help it with that blog design: is -webkit-transform: rotate() the new <marquee> tag? The Panic team creates great products with fantastic designs, but I find this choice a bit motion-sickness-inducing.

Back on-topic: it's great that Safari is now offering an official way to have extensions. I had tried at one point to write a plug-in for Safari and soon realized that the existing ones (e.g. 1Password, Evernote) relied on "hacks" and work-arounds. Let's just hope the extensions are as easy to develop as for other browsers, like Chrome. (with which I recently dabbled with)

I also wonder how adversely the titled text affects readability. On Safari 5, the text looks a tad blurry, though it could just be me looking for problems; I imagine it probably looks worse on Windows and Linux, where the text rendering engines don't anti-alias as aggressively and jagginess could ensue.

I was wondering why the page was giving me a headache. It looks awful on Linux + Chrome.

The whole page is jagged and ugly and makes me upset at this design choice.

off-topic: I disagree completely. I am crazy about the panic blog, I think it looks great. The promise of html5 is that it allows you to be more creative in what your website looks like. That kind of a layout, with a curled page and drop shadow and, yes, the rotation, are something that you might see in print, but here it is in standards based glory. Pretty cool. Unfortunate that it doesn't look so hot in some browser/OS combinations, and that might be something they should consider, but I think it is pretty exciting for them to be experimenting in this way.

Also, if you didn't notice, every time you refresh you get a new random rotation.

Safari Extensions seems to be basically the same technology that went into their Dashboard widgets. I wonder if Apple has been reaching out to all the Dashboard widget creators to see if they want to develop for Safari too?

I wonder how closely the Safari Extension Gallery will follow the Dashboard Widgets Download page: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/

Mozilla, in addition to their normal extension architecture, has been developing another type of extension, using the same technologies that Apple is using here: Javascript, HTML, and CSS. They call their framework Jetpack: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/

It's the same way Google Chrome extensions are built, isn't it? I just assumed this is Apple blessing what's really just a part of WebKit...

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