That pales in comparison with the Adblock Plus extension for Firefox, at least from the user’s standpoint. Firefox extensions are easy to find and install, not hosted on Google code.

Where it’s hosted makes no difference to me, as a user. The point wasn’t that Safariblock was as good as AdBlock, but just something to counter the claim that Safari had no adblocking ability. Of course Safariblock isn’t as good as Adblock, I know from comparison. Also, Safariblock isn’t the only thing out there for this.

And regarding HTML5, Ogg, etc. I recommend this (admittedly Apple-biased) piece as a supplement to other stories on the topic (like this one from Ars Technica):
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/06/ogg_theora_h_264_and_the_html_5_browser_squabble.html

I don’t have much of a concern in the browser battles either way. I use what works best for me, while at the same time experimenting with competition to make sure it works best.

The problem I have with Safari’s HTML5 implementation is that it’s as bad as Flash. With Flash, the browser dynamically links to libflashplayer.so and loads it if called on a webpage. The plugin can interact badly with the browser and crash it, or stop a page from working. Apple chose to implement audio/video tag support by dynamically linking to Quicktime, which is then loaded if called by a site using the audio or video tags. Also the implementation doesn’t work on Windows.
Firefox has its own built-in player, just to play audio/video from the HTML5 tags. It will work on any platform, and it also has Ogg Vorbis/Theora support built-in. By default, Quicktime does not support Ogg files at all, and that’s what everybody’s using these tags for.
I have problems with other browser too.
Opera 10: Passes Acid2 and Acid3, passes CSS3 selectors test, supports text-shadow and hsl colours, but doesn’t support box-shadow, border-radius properties or audio/video tags.
IE8: Passes Acid2, fails all other tests, doesn’t support text-shadow, box-shadow, border-radius, hsl colours, audio/video tags, or any CSS3.
Chrome: Needs to implement latest Webkit to advance to Safari’s level, doesn’t currently support audio/video tags.
http://techblog.procurios.nl/k/618/news/view/33224/14863/Testing-Internet-Explorer-8-CSS3-for-Web-Design.html

Nope, this guy is Schaefer while the Resentment Against Achievement is Sheaffer.

Wish I could be a fly on the wall!

Are you a self-hating human?

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http://webkit.org/blog/140/html5-media-support/

Of course WebKit is just a preview of what’s coming, but there has been underlying support for things for a while, also Safariblock isn’t the only AdBlocking thing out there.

Firefox is still fine for use though, just not my first choice on my machine.