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We’ve been performance tuning Scoodi for the last few days, making extensive use of FireBug and YSlow in Firefox. Surely there’d have to be something similar for Safari? Please don’t make me start Firefox when I need to do this sort of work…

I’d heard about Safari’s Web Inspector and Drosera a while ago, but the latest Safari 3.1 makes these easily available in a new “Develop” menu (enabled in Safari’s preferences). The Web Inspector is nothing short of spectacular, it seems to have a lot of FireBug’s features (I’ve not found anything apart from the selection widget that FireBug has over it), wrapped up in the usual Mac eye candy.

Here’s a screen shot of it in action against the Scoodi UAT site, showing HTTP headers.

You can also attach it to the browser window (FireBug style) with the icon on the bottom left. I noticed this morning also that IE 8 now bundles a developer console also.

Over the weekend I upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5, which went almost flawlessly, kudos to the WordPress developers for their efforts. I followed the standard upgrade guide, however pulled the code from SVN instead of the standard tarball, which will make upgrading in the future easier, nice as I haven’t upgraded for almost two years!

Update: Yet another reason to upgrade…

Ben has posted a nice piece of Apache config that allows you to simply proxy multiple mongrels while serving local (static) content off Apache. Nice one.

As much as I hate spending inordinate amounts of time staring at CSS files and checking browser compatibility, I am quite reasonable at it, and seem to have an innate fascination with the application of design to the web. To that end, Cameron Moll takes us through designing a Highly Extensible CSS Interface in a four part series. I’ve got to say the result is pretty striking. You’ve got to love what a good designer can produce…