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Safari 12.0 bug in macOS Mojave: smearing in image previews

A cosmetic bug ‘smearing’ images which download slowly, by repeating the last row of the image down to its foot.

October 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Putting a browser window in your app

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Adding a WebKit browser window is straightforward so long as you ignore what Apple tells you.

May 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Java and macOS: what you should know

Java, JavaScript, whichever – do you need them, whose version should you install, and how do you look after them?

October 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Display of dense text information

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Let Consolation 3 colour your log extracts: it makes a huge difference in reading and understanding them.

July 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How fix a URL which breaks because of Unicode content

You paste a link containing Unicode characters such as accents, and it doesn’t work as you expect. Here’s how to fix it.

January 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra, wide colourspaces, and browser engines

Colour gets simpler and better in Sierra, except of course when it comes to the web. Have you had any odd colour glitches?

September 30, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Banned browser extensions

XProtect also protects your Mac from many adware and other unwanted Safari extensions. Here is the list, and details of them.

August 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Support for Celtic and other languages

What OS X and browser support is there for Scottish Gaelic and other Celtic tongues?

July 14, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Why do I look like a boiled lobster on this blog?

Q A recent photo of me on a blog looks fine when browsed using Safari, but Firefox and Google Chrome misrender it, making me look like a boiled lobster. How can I correct that?

April 19, 2015 Macs, Technology

Stick a Fork in WebKit, it’s Undone

Just as there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, we should be equally suspicious of free web browsers.

April 13, 2015 Macs, Technology
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