Well, we had some fun with Perian today. First it started when macupdate decided that they were going to post a fake 1.0 of Perian. You can read the details if you like. Since this is clearly something we didn’t want, we had to figure out how it happened. My guess is that someone saw the new website design in development within the subversion repository, clicked the download link that was there, and noticed it download a version later than what we have on the website.
New Safari
Well, Apple released a beta of Safari 3.0 and so I decided to try it out. I had almost forgotten why I switched to Firefox until I was doing this post. Safari’s javascript was not up to par to work properly with wordpress, so I had to switch to a browser that was. Now, wordpress is hardwired to disable features on Safari, so I had to make it lie and claim it was Firefox in order to test them. Seems to work just fine.
Seeing the Railroad Bridge
It was nice to pull out the camera again after such a long hiatus. My parents took me to see an old railroad bridge across the Guadalupe River near Comfort, TX (GPS cords: 29°58'36’’ N 98°50'45’’ W). Anyway, here is a shot of the bridge from below:
Nearing Release
Well, Perian is finally nearing a release. I wonder how much press we will get over this one, since it is finally hitting version 1.0. Chris (project manager) seems to think that Perian will be bigger than Adium (which he also manages). Considering how well version 0.5 has been received (over a quarter million downloads), I think I now believe him. Then we get to start work on version 1.1, which will include optimizations to what we did in 1.0.