Up Then last night Dave Winer<\/a>, It will take me a while to get used to the new interface endnote: As predicted, my premature <\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" border=”0″> We Mac users rarely get to feel jealous of our Wintel colleagues, but are big enough to admit it when we do. Up until about ten minutes ago my giddy exuberance over blogging was naggingly tempered by … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/happybs.gif\")
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\nMac users rarely get to feel jealous of our Wintel colleagues, but are
\nbig enough to admit it when we do. Up until about ten minutes ago my
\ngiddy exuberance over
\nblogging was naggingly tempered by the inability of my browser of
\nchoice (Safari) to utilze or even display the extremely
\ncool formatting pallette
\nwhich appears above the text entry window in the
\n“Create News Item” page of Manila<\/a>. Manila, of course, is the blogging software of choice at the Berkman Center<\/a>, our host, and the tool with which Dowbrigade is created.<\/p>\n
\nuntil now, in order to create tables or links, insert graphics,
\narrange the elements of a posting and change text attributes like
\n size and color,<\/font> I needed to create my posts in Dreamweaver
\nMX and then copy and past the html into the more limited version
\nof the page displayed by Safari, IE or Navigator on the Mac.<\/p>\n
\nthe ultimate Manila resource person, informed me that the tags that
\nallow the pallette to appear ARE supported by Mozilla, so I fired up a
\nrecent implementation of the open-source browser called Firebird<\/a>, and Voila! Instant formatting! \n <\/p>\n
\nand see how far I can take it. I can still use Safari, which I love for
\nits speed, stability and tabbed browsing. Not often one can have one’s
\ncake and eat it too. Now, for being smug, it won’t
\nwork.<\/p>\n
\nself-congratulations proved, well,
\npremature. I will keep experimenting to find the optimal blend of
\ntools and styles.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n