Archive for October 10, 2007

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The ‘Un’ in ‘Unsupported’

John Gruber:

With software, though, the constraints are invisible and arbitrary. The limitations regarding what is and is not supported are issues of won’t rather than can’t. Right now, today, Apple could choose to support, either officially or tacitly, the development and installation of third-party iPhone software. They have chosen not to.

iPhone Search Page

It takes too long to load a whole Web page just to get to a specialized search box. Fraser Speirs made a quick-loading Wikipedia search page. I've made my own with a few more sites. The searches open in new windows so that you don’t have to reload the search page later.