Steve Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 omniweb5@omnigroup.com cheers chuck! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessterw Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 Speed: The app took off after 6-7 bounces, not bad but then again not good. I'm finding it really hard to get used to Safari's 1.0 rendering engine which is slow as all hell in comparison to Safari 1.1 and pathetic compared to 1.2 which has been seen the recent betas of Mac OS X 10.3.3. I thought omniweb would have jumped on 1.1 form the start, they say they are working on it for a 5.1 release due in a month or so. (in a month, most users will be enjoying all that Safari 1.2 has to offer) The reason for this is that OmniWeb uses WebCore as opposed to WebKit - the former providing greater programming abilities and the latter being simpler to use but hindered. The latest version of WebCore was not available while OmniWeb 5 was being developed and so the team decided to use the older WebCore. Daring Fireball has a good writeup on all this and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 I constantly got horizontal bars just while browsing Neowin...Sorry, it looks good and all, but there's nothing worth $30 at all. That is because Neowin's image posting policies are a little slack and don't have any regard to users on a 1024x768 screen. The max image you can post is 1024x768, so if someone is posting an image the exact same size as your desktop, it is kind of impossible to fit a web page around it without causing you to scroll horizontally. But the 99 percent of topics that have no images posted in them you should be fine. Neowin is a fluid content layout being that the content resizes to fit your browser window. This has its disadvantages and advantages but the site will definitely hold true on less that 800px, giving you more than enough space for a vertical tab bar. However, other sites like Designtechnika or Twusa.ca will not, as they have absolute width/positioned divs in CSS that are not resizable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 (edited) Workspaces... I must be missing something here... From what I can make out, this is basically, like having multi desktops. You can have a collection of sites in tabs windows or whatever, and 'save it'. You can switch seamlessly between one another, like Multi desktops.. If thats the core concept, than i must be doing something wrong. I have about 8 sites i read 'daily' with News and Rumours on... I loaded them all up, as Tabs, hit the 'take snapshot'. It all seemed fine, i switched to another workspace, came back, and all was as expected. However OmniWeb seems quite crash happy @ this point in its new found life, it crashed.. When i reloaded, i hit the 'saved' workspace, and it didn't load the 8 web pages i had hoped. Would you assume this is because of the crash, or have i really missed the boat here? :p Aside the obvious differences, i wanted to set it up, to use very much like i have in Safari. A group of sites, that i could launch simultaneously... Edit: Ok, so i think i am getting it... I create a 'style' or collection of pages... Take a snapshot, and thats it. Now if i close the window... and move BACK to that workspace, no windows re-appear. I have to 'restore' snapshot' to do that. Now it makes more sense. The only query i have now is. How do i do that via the keyboard? F Keys to move between Workspaces, but how to restore the snapshot, the workspace menu depicts "^ + Apple + R", but that doesn't make sense, because, to get '^' you need shift. I tried that, and it doesn't work... Any ideas?! :p :D Edited February 3, 2004 by ~~NeYo~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 the "^" is the symbol for the ctrl key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 the "^" is the symbol for the ctrl key. HAHA! Oh i see, seems a bit stupid tho, Oh well. Thanks, now its making alot more sense. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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