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ParsOnline the Great

Remember Geocities old homepages? This screenshot shows ParsOnline's website, not one of the Geocities member pages, and it is one of the biggest Iranian ISPs.

Note the yellow frame on the screenshot, it shows title(s) of their homepage under Safari. Yes, Titles. But how many? It seems that ParsOnline is not just into the ISP business, but: Iranian Fun, Tehran Fun, Iranian Contact, Iranian Linux and Iranian IP.

100th Day

Sadeh Festival photos by Fatemeh, showing some traditional Persian dresses. Sadeh has been an ancient festival for Iranians - since thousand of years ago - before the invasion of Islam. Many Iranian people – Zoroastrian, Muslim or Jews – still celebrate this ancient festival. Colorful dresses with golden bands and coins; these are traditional Persian dresses with ancient designs. Don't forget to visit her Shiraz photos album, interesting shots about the ancient Persepolis and Iran.

Safari 1.2 - Persian Bug

Ali is reporting a bug regarding the Persian texts with Safari 1.2 - words are integrated to separate letters - and I have the same problem while browsing some Persian unicode pages. It seems that Apple is changing the Unicode text rendering engine, or maybe the problem is somewhere else. Any ideas?

[Posted with ecto]

Mozilla, Reloaded

Good news for Babak, Mozilla Firefox 0.8 is out. Mozilla guys say that this build is just a technology preview, but it runs very fast under Mac OS X, even if you scroll or drag windows.

Best features are: new preferences panel & new icons, faster and smooth looking TABs with icons, description for URL history, new download manager which supports pause and resume, better application icon & about panel, and finally the best full screen support without any scroll bars or extra visual elements.

FireFox's Persian support is not as good as Safari and seeks more attention, contextual menus are still like Internet Explorer and navigation toolbar is just a Safari clone. But anyways, I believe that the GUI is perfect. Grab the latest copy here.