Saturday, February 8, 2003
Slept in. Errands with Patrick. Lunch at Tennessee Grill (415-664-7834, 1128 Taraval St), an old diner that's been around since the 1960's. We both had a chicken burger with fries, Patrick had a root beer and I had plain water. The food was good enough to surprise us, especially for the price: US$11.82 after a $1.25 tip. Napped. I've been using Opera 7.0 and 7.01 for almost 2 weeks now. Previous versions of Opera wouldn't last 10 minutes on my computer because it would crash and I would subsequently uninstall it. This time around, however, I was teased by the promise of better standards support—they claimed better than Mozilla 1, even. To my surprise, it didn't crash within the first 10 minutes. Or the first day. Or the first 5 days. It eventually crashed—once—after 5 days had passed, but by then I was hooked and had already set it as my default browser, setting aside the reliable Internet Explorer 6. It took me a long time to figure out the keyboard shortcut for reaching accesskey items: Shift+Esc. Things don't always work exactly like the did in IE6, so for many things I have to relearn how to do things. But I'm enjoying a better set of features, I think, in the tradeoff. What's cool? Better keyboard shortcuts, better accessibility (e.g., zooming the view also increases the images), better control over stylesheets, plugins, cookies. Very customizable. For web developers, there are features to show you the current window size, debugging features to easily show table outlines, tag structures, and much more. It has support for special LINK tags to add standardized navigation for your site. It lets you easily spoof as a different browser (helpful for cross-browser testing). There's a feature that lets you automatically refresh a particular Web page at a set interval. I'm very pleased so far. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers (salmon, sesame chicken, steamed rice, asparagus) and macaroni and cheese. Played Jeopardy online.