Web-Surfing Safari
Posted by configure on 10 January 2003 - 08:26 · 7 comments & 842 views
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#1 Posted by Mith on 10 Jan 2003 - 09:51
- i already posted an article on safari in back page news 2 days ago...
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#2 Posted by h0ax on 10 Jan 2003 - 11:54
- i'm posting from safari right now...
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#3 Posted by iraklis2000 on 10 Jan 2003 - 13:00
- funny, nobody has mentioned the bug, where Safari can erase your whole hard drive.....It would have been headline news if Microsoft had such a bug. If anyone wants to try it, it is faily simple. Hold down the "Option" key and click on a link, this could end up formating your hard drive. How nice of them.
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#3.1 Posted by Cara on 10 Jan 2003 - 18:48
- That is because the bug you mentioned has something to do with the user's system configuration and effects less than One Tenth of One Percent of Apple Computers. I will sit all day and option click on links and suffer no problems... Perhaps you should do a touch more reserch before trying to troll on a subject you may not completely understand...
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#3.2 Posted by iraklis2000 on 10 Jan 2003 - 23:43
- i have no hopes of learning either. 1/10 of one percent? Can you tell me where you got that number? Hoe do you know what percent of the people that own MACs have that configuration, and then also figured out the number that have actually downloaded, and finally affected by the bug? I am curious to see how much you REALLY know. How many users is 1/10 of 1%? I want to know.
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#3.3 Posted by Cara on 11 Jan 2003 - 03:46
- That is the information passed on from Apple Support on one of their tech support forum/groups either a day or two ago. Given that Apple apparently has the bug spotted and corrected for the next release I'd say that is a hint better than the typical response time from the IEDT.
Again, more research on your part would have shown that.
(PS : I beleive it was on the Safari ADC Board, I can't remember)
eWEEK Labs tested a beta version of Safari, which runs only on Mac OS X 10.2 or later. Safari is based on the open-source rendering engine KHTML. This is the engine that powers Konqueror, the native Web browser of the K Desktop Environment.
The choice of KHTML will likely end up benefiting Apple and KDE alike: Apple has turned over to the KDE Project the bug fixes and performance improvements it made to KHTML, and KDE developers have expressed interest in moving forward with a common HTML rendering back end for both Konqueror and Safari.
According to Apple, KHTML was selected as Safari's foundation for its leanness and speed, and these were the two attributes that impressed us most in tests of the Apple browser. We've always been disappointed with the speed of Internet Explorer on the Mac, and Safari delivers performance that's at least equivalent to that of Internet Explorer on Windows.
What's more, Safari allowed us to block pop-up adds in the same way that Mozilla, Konqueror and Opera can—and Internet Explorer cannot.
Safari does not, however, support tabbed browsing. This is a feature available in Mozilla, Opera and the upcoming KDE 3.1 version of Konqueror, and it's one that we've come to view as vital.
Safari does include a number of nice usability features, including a Google search box on the toolbar and a "snapback" button that allowed us to return to an initially typed-in Web address or Google results page.
We visited a variety of Web pages with Safari--including some that have given us trouble in the past when using browsers other than Internet Explorer—and were pleased with the browser's page rendering. Safari does include a toolbar button for reporting page-rendering problems to Apple.
Another interesting Safari feature is its activity window, which allowed us to monitor the size, download progress and originating server of every element of the pages we opened. This will be especially useful for Web developers diagnosing page problems.
Safari boasts a thoughtfully designed bookmark system. In tests, choosing the "add bookmark" option from the toolbar brought up a window from which we could name a bookmark and place it either in our toolbar or in one of our bookmark folders. We could remove bookmarks from the toolbar by dragging them to the desktop, where they'd disappear with a brief puff-of-smoke animation.
We were disappointed not to find any facility for exporting bookmarks, and beyond an automatic import of existing Internet Explorer bookmarks, Safari cannot import bookmarks, either.