While F# is a first-class .NET 4 citizen it’s not really a first-class Visual Studio citizen, even in 2010. A lot of the application setup tools we have for C# aren’t present in F#.
I was recently making a quick and dirty tool in F# that needed some basic user settings, so I went with the ApplicationSettings infrastructure in .NET, as it’s the easiest way to implement this. In C# this is easy, the GUI designer writes the code for you.
We all love to hate Comic Sans, so I whipped up a little Safari extension to remove it from any page and replace it with a much more pleasing font.
I was concerned that changing the font would mess up designs, but then I remembered that they were using comic sans, so it wasn’t a real concern.
However, it ** will slow down all web pages ** , as it iterates all stylesheet rules.
Over on the TaoEffect blog there’s an article on iPhone and third party frameworks where it’s claimed that cross-platform frameworks can work because it works for Firefox on MacOS X.
Even the blog acknowledges that there are problems, noting that it doesn’t integrate with the system keychain, but that these are “minor issues”.
I disagree.
Since Firefox doesn’t use the keychain passwords in Firefox are not subject to my keychain policy.
