I wrote some crafty Javascript to dump out the contents of arbitrary objects in the DOM in iPhone’s Safari. After the jump is a list of what the iPhone’s got for window, document, and document.body. If you need more, let me know.

Safari on iPhone has a number of things that are NOT implemented. Here’s a list of things that don’t seem to work (and I’ll be adding more as time goes on):

• window.onmousedown
• window.onclick
• window.onscroll

• overflow:hidden
• position:fixed
• position:static
• -webkit-column-*

If you find any more, please leave them in the comments and I’ll add them to the list.

When I started this site in 2003, I didn’t really know what to do with it. It started off as a faux-blog, during the blogging revolution, but all I was trying to do was carve out a little hole in the Web where I could put stuff. Since then, it’s expanded to be a full blog, along with many other nice things, like my project showcase, my photos, etc. Up until now, everything’s been great.

But it’s time to give this blog some focus. So, starting immediately, this blog will be focused on the one thing I know best – software. Developing software for OS X, developing web applications, using software, designing UI, critiquing other software, etc. Apple software, Microsoft software, open source software, all of it. It’s the one thing that I’ve spent the last ten years of my life figuring out.

So what does that mean in terms of content? Well, I’ll be working to post more about those topics and more. I’ll also be working to clean up the archives to support this focus (nothing will be disappearing, but I will be moving a lot of it around). Also, I’ll be adding some stuff to the design of the site to facilitate it (such as last 5 reviews, iusethis apps, etc.).

I’ve been kicking this decision around for awhile, as is evident by my last two posts (on iTunes and Coda). I’m confident, though, that this is the best decision. This blog has never really been anything more than just a general soapbox for me to get on when the time comes, as seen by some of my more political posts, so I’m glad to actually be able to turn this into something that becomes more of a resource rather than just a melting pot.

Today, Panic released their first new major app in a long time. Named Coda, it’s a tool for serious web developers who want an Xcode-like tool for web development. It integrates a lot of tools into one app, which is a very nice thing. Unfortunately for me, Coda’s still missing a lot of what I need to make extensive use out of it, or enough to justify the $80 price tag. I’d like to point out the big 5 that are missing from Coda’s arsenal that would really make the app significantly more useful.

If you don’t understand the title of this post, don’t bother reading any further. If you do, here’s a nice regular expression that will, given an Obj-C source file (.h or .m), give you all of the method signatures. It should work in every case that I can think of, but if you’re doing anything involving weird types or preprocessor macros it should work.

iTunes was released on January 9, 2001, at Macworld San Francisco. It was a huge deal at the time. Like, really huge. The big deal Mac MP3 players at the time, well, sucked as music jukeboxes. They were just that – MP3 players. that left the organization up to the end user. So when iTunes came out and replaced SoundJam MP, it was not only revolutionary, but extremely welcome to those of us with large music collections.

However, iTunes 1.0 was more than just a rebranded SoundJam. It had a completely reworked UI. Gone were the completely horrific looking skins that accompanied it. It was a music jukebox, just like it had been advertised. And Apple made it dead easy to rip, mix, and burn. Suffice it to say, iTunes 1.0 was a pretty amazing app. But Apple didn’t stop there.

Microsoft’s Zune. I swore to give the Zune an honest look when it actually began materializing on the Internet. I wouldn’t be a Mac zealot for the sake of being a Mac zealot – I’d actually give it a fair and honest run through. Well, as it came out a couple days ago, a couple of my friends decided to each get a Zune at launch. Naturally, I got my grubby hands on it, and gave it a ten minute run-through.

I’m not impressed, but I am a bit worried. More after the jump.

Introducing Tubular, the brand new YouTube client for OS X. Why would you want a YouTube client? Simple.

• It’s pretty. Tubular was designed to have a simple, elegant, and out-of-the-way user interface that still manages to look gorgeous. With icons designed by Cyril Seillet and Tom Stoelwinder, and a user interface designed with the collective wisdom of dozens of people, Tubular is simply beautiful.
• It’s familiar. Anyone who has used iTunes will feel right at home with Tubular’s look and feel. We’ve taken the UI ideas given to us by iTunes and ran with them, producing a user interface that is intuitive and usable.
• It’s useful. Features like one-click iPod conversion and drag-and-drop playback really give Tubular incredible utility to anyone who uses it.

We’ll be unveiling more about Tubular in the next couple weeks. You can go check out the blog at TubularApp.com, where I’ll be posting updates periodically.

I was looking for something that would display the currently playing iTunes song on my desktop. Nothing, however, seemed to really fit. No solution really looked like it belonged on a Mac’s desktop. So, I wrote one. And here it is.

Introducing DeskTunes.

DeskTunes is a very simple, very elegant way to see what’s playing in iTunes right now. It stays stuck to the bottom left corner of the Desktop, no matter what you do. It even stays put if you try and hide all of your windows with Exposé. You can also rate the currently playing song by clicking the star bar.

Simple. Elegant. Tiny. Out of the way. Beautiful.

The best part? It’s totally, completely, eternally free. Click here to download it.

Update (4/18/2008): DeskTunes keeps getting talked about all over the place, and now on TUAW and Lifehacker. I’m planning on releasing DeskTunes as open-source soon. It’ll be available on Google Code as soon as I get around to cleaning up the source code and making sure it works on Leopard. Thanks for checking it out!