| Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
11:48 - Irreproducible Results
|
(top)  |
Blast! I can't get it to happen again, so I can't get a screenshot to prove this. But I swear it happened!
A little background: about a month ago, I sent in feedback to the iSync team to suggest that iSync should automatically synchronize Safari's bookmarks between Macs. I mean, wouldn't that rock? Having all your bookmarks available and consistent no matter which computer you're on? I know I'd love that.
Anyway, there haven't been any updates to iSync lately; it wasn't even revised in the 10.2.5 OS update. And Safari's only major revision lately, Beta 2 or v73, only talks about miscellaneous bug fixes and tabbed browsing.
But just now, I went into my bookmarks pane to add a new folder; when I clicked on the [+] at the bottom, I got a dialog box that said: "iSync is currently synchronizing your bookmarks. Please wait until the synchronization process is complete before modifying your bookmarks." (Or words to that effect.)
The thing is, iSync wasn't syncing at the time... and it hadn't done so in the past half-hour. And after I did a manual sync, on this machine and on my laptop, the respective machines' browsers still had their local complements of bookmarks, unchanged.
I think I tripped a piece of code in a new feature they may be putting in. Namely iSynchronization of Safari bookmarks, just as I'd hoped.
If not, that's a hell of a specific dialog box to hide in the browser as a prank...!
UPDATE: James Sentman and John Weidner both report having sighted this mystery dialog box. It appears to have nothing to do, behaviorally, with iSync itself; it's just a ghost at this stage.
And a rather poorly worded ghost at that.
|
|
