Safari 3.1 and font support- March 19, 2008 So, one of the features that&8217;s been in the WebKit tree for a while but finally showed up in Safari today is downloadable font support. You can use CSS to apply a specific font to an element and Safari will download the font from a URL provided. That&8217;s really cool, but the odds of an exploitable buffer overflow somewhere in the font rendering pipeline has to be almost 100%. I mean, almost every graphics format has had multiple exploitable bugs on every platform, and I can&8217;t see.http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2008/03/18/safari-3-1-and-font-support FiOS system requirements- March 19, 2008 The Verizon FiOS installers have been circling the neighborhood lately, tearing up sidewalks, digging holes in lawns, and (finally) pulling fiber down the telephone poles in the direction of the nearest CO. According to their call center, they&8217;ll probably be able to upgrade me from 3768 DSL to 1515 fiber sometime around the middle of next month. I&8217;ve been waiting for years for them to finally make it to my place, so I&8217;ll probably have to have a party or something :-). Just for.http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2008/03/18/fios-system-requirements iPhone Time- March 18, 2008 I really thing I should get some credit for this: I managed to wait until March 2008 to buy myself an iPhone. I didn&8217;t rush out and wait in line on the day they shipped. I didn&8217;t buy myself one when the price fell. I even bought my wife one first, in December for our anniversary. Admittedly, I was in a car on the way to the nearest Apple store when Steve first announced the iPhone last January, before he bothered to mention that it wouldn&8217;t ship for 6 months, but it&8217;d be.http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2008/03/18/iphone-time |