Jacob Christensen

Safari on Windows, originally uploaded by jacobchristensen.

Apple’s Safari/Windows beta is a strange experience: On the Dell I’m using right now, the application is unstable as h%&l – basically, I can’t perform any operations without crashing it – and there are a lot of weird faults in the display.

On the other hand, the text-rendering on Windows suddenly makes OS X look very 2002. (The same goes if you try IE7 on Windows, while Firefox doesn’t use the new capabilities)

Update: “Robert X. Cringely” has this take on why Apple chose to circulate a less-than-stable version of the Safari browser.

Let’s start with that context, which is Apple’s WWDC, an event sorely lacking in both substance and controversy if we ignore this Safari story. Mac OS X 10.5 still isn’t ready to ship. The iPhone is coming in a couple weeks but Apple is so far only hinting at opening the product to third-party developers. In other words, Steve Jobs had bupkus when it comes to creating press this week UNLESS he throws Safari for Windows into the mix.

I would just like to note that the Lars Weiss referred to in “links for 2007-06-14″ isn’t the Swedish journalist and commentator but the Danish aspiring politician.

And yes, Weiss the Dane is the son of Birte Weiss.

The latest edition of the Swedish Statistical Office’s six-monthly inquiry into party sympathies confirms the picture from almost every opinion poll since the September election: The Swedish centre-right government is in a lot of electoral trouble.

According to the poll which is part of the inquiry, the government stand to gain only 40,5% of the vote against 55,5% for the three opposition parties. This is the worst performance of any Swedish government since the mid-1970s.

The loss of support hasn’t just been massive, it also came surprisingly early, and at some point political scientists will have to address the issue.

• Slate: Conventional Wisdom? The excesses of the medical conference craze.

  Is the pace of medical discovery really so blistering that only a circuit of nonstop meetings can accommodate the headlong rush of critical new information?

  (tags: publichealth academic medicine)

• The Quick and the Ed: A Nightmare on the Potomac

  The article, which is worth reading in full, is a litany of bureaucratic incompetence. It also highlights one of the real challenges of urban school reform.

  (tags: usa teaching school policy education)

• Lars Weiss: Helle Thornings taktiske kurs er farlig

  Siden årtusindskiftet er der sket et foruroligende skred i Social­demokraternes værdipolitik til fordel for taktiske overvejelser. Uden at det har nyttet, tværtimod.

  (tags: denmark politics socialdemocracy)

• The Loose Reins on U.S. Teenagers Can Produce Trouble or Entrepreneurs – New York Times

  The fact that American schooling is less disciplined than that in other countries gives young creators the time and the energy to accomplish something outside their formal education.

  (tags: usa economics)

According to Swedish Radio, the happy inhabitants of the northern part of Dalarna woke up to 7 centimetres of snow today.

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