Does anybody know of a good qualitative research software package that runs under OS X?
When I did my dissertation research, I used QSR NUD*IST, which ran on the Mac OS. But their current software (called NVivo, a far less problematic name for requesting funds from your department) only runs on Windows.
I’ve done some poking around, and haven’t found much. So I’m tossing this out to the blogosphere. Anybody know of anything? I need something that lets me highlight and code passages in interview transcripts—similar to what’s described in the NVivo information. (In the worst case scenario I’ll run NVivo using Virtual PC, though I really hate to do that if I can find an alternative.)
I’m wondering if Tinderbox might work. (Jill, what do you think?)
I think I found an undocumented CSS bug in Safari. (Lucky me, eh?)
I’m redesiging my web site, and wanted to get down and funky with cool CSS stuff. So, among other things, I added a “before” line to my style sheet so that a paragraph with a class of “selected” would have a small arrow image prepended to it. The code looked like this:
.selected:before {
content: url(arrow.gif);
}
It worked perfectly in Mozilla, didn’t show up at all in IE, and loaded properly (or so it seemed) in Safari. The problem was that every time I clicked on a link in Safari to reload the page (it’s a PHP/mySQL driven site, so the links were reloading the page with a new query string), Safari would crash.
It took a while for me to figure out that the problem was that line of the CSS file, commenting it out (and changing nothing else) fixed it.
(And before you ask, yes, I filled out a bug report, but before I knew what the problem was. Will fill out another one now that I’ve isolated it.)
So, I’m doing it the old-fashioned way, and am writing out the img tag instead of letting CSS add the image. <sigh>
(Oh…the redesign can be seen in progress here. Feedback/bug reports welcomed, especially from PC users. Credit to my friend Elouise for design inspiration and Photoshop tutoring, but the end result is mine all mine.)
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