Apple Announces Safari 4

[Weepul]

It passes the ACID 3 test!

Not for me, it doesn't.

Webkit nightlies had been passing ACID3 on Intel Macs and failing on PPC Macs for a while - I dunno why it makes a difference, but I suspect this is also the case in Safari 4. (The animation is also not smooth.)

 

[ditzy]

I'm loving it so far, I love that I don't have to go into the file list to open a new tab.

 

[PkennethV]

Not for me, it doesn't.

Webkit nightlies had been passing ACID3 on Intel Macs and failing on PPC Macs for a while - I dunno why it makes a difference, but I suspect this is also the case in Safari 4. (The animation is also not smooth.)

Judging from the screenshot, maybe it's also because you're running the Tiger version of Safari rather the the Leopard, not 100% sure if that would make a difference either though.

 

[johngordon]

Safari > Preferences > Advanced > check "Show Develop menu in menu bar"

Ah! Thanks - that was painless enough!

What exactly is it doing? I'm currently working on a site that I know has a couple of issues in IE6, but when I try Develop > User Agent > IE6, it just displays the page as Safari does, without the glitches.

Should it display what IE6 would display?

 

[Shunnabunich]

Not for me, it doesn't.

Webkit nightlies had been passing ACID3 on Intel Macs and failing on PPC Macs for a while - I dunno why it makes a difference, but I suspect this is also the case in Safari 4. (The animation is also not smooth.)

Hmm. I'm on a PowerBook G4 running 10.5.6, and I just tried it after seeing your 94. Mine got 100. Not sure what's goin' on there.

 

[Shunnabunich]

Ah! Thanks - that was painless enough!

What exactly is it doing? I'm currently working on a site that I know has a couple of issues in IE6, but when I try Develop > User Agent > IE6, it just displays the page as Safari does, without the glitches.

Should it display what IE6 would display?

That menu only changes which user agent string is transmitted by Safari. This means you can, say, fool an artificially IE-only website into displaying because its javascripts (or whatever) think you're browsing on IE.

In order to display a page as IE would display it, Safari would need to use (and therefore include, or at least link against) IE's render engine, Trident. Same with using a Firefox user agent; it'll appear to the server to be a Firefox browser, but Safari will still be doing the actual rendering with WebKit. All that's changing is a string of text.

 

[Techguy172]

I think I've gone back from Firefox to Safari. The ability to test in IE 6,7,8 Is incredible. I also really like the Tabs at the top very chrome like. It gets many of it's new features from chrome but it just seems to be better implemented.

It's also very Fast!!

 

[clevin]

The ability to test in IE 6,7,8 Is incredible.

I really don't think faking useragent means you can test your page for IE 6/7/8. It doesn't work that way.

 

[richard.mac]

anyone know if theres a Terminal command to remove Cover Flow from the Bookmarks page?

 

[Akira1980]

I wish I could set my own "Top Sites." I want to set what will show up. I hope they add this option later.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I think I've gone back from Firefox to Safari. The ability to test in IE 6,7,8 Is incredible. I also really like the Tabs at the top very chrome like. It gets many of it's new features from chrome but it just seems to be better implemented.

It's also very Fast!!

I love Safari and was an avid user, but the other day (maybe three or four days ago) I switched to FireFox (I do this every few months). Then Safari 4 came out, so of course I switched back. It's slick as hell. I hate wasted space so I'm really digging the tabs.

 

[xDYLANx]

The stop/reload button is in the address bar. If you hit reload it will start to reload, then if you hit the spinning wheel it will stop.

As for the loading bar, totally agree, this better make a reappearance. Also I would like the bookmarks button not to be part of the address bar as it takes up room and I always Command-D it anyway.

Yeah, I know about the new stop/reload thing, but I'd rather have a button where it used to be...and I agree on taking away the bookmark button

 

[johngordon]

That menu only changes which user agent string is transmitted by Safari. This means you can, say, fool an artificially IE-only website into displaying because its javascripts (or whatever) think you're browsing on IE.

In order to display a page as IE would display it, Safari would need to use (and therefore include, or at least link against) IE's render engine, Trident. Same with using a Firefox user agent; it'll appear to the server to be a Firefox browser, but Safari will still be doing the actual rendering with WebKit. All that's changing is a string of text.

OK - thanks. I guess it did seem too good to be true!

 

[kojack1985]

Im on a PC and new to safari, how do I view coverflow and Top Sites with the black backround?

thanks

 

[.max]

anyone know if theres a Terminal command to remove Cover Flow from the Bookmarks page?

I hate to repeat myself, but look here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/7163954/

 

[MrSmith]

I usually take what they give out but I have to say the tabs at the top suck big time. In my opinion.

 

[.max]

I wish I could set my own "Top Sites." I want to set what will show up. I hope they add this option later.

You can drop there your links while in Edit mode.
That was not obvious.

 

[richard.mac]

I hate to repeat myself, but look here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/7163954/

thanks i saw that and thats what made me post. im thinking theres just a simple defaults command instead of adding the Tweaks menu.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I usually take what they give out but I have to say the tabs at the top suck big time. In my opinion.

I don't understand you people. There's nothing to back up your claim and you have no cognitive reason for hating where tabs are. Is it really that big of a deal?

Geesh

 

[bobertoq]

Why?

Edit:
Well, I got that problem fixed in the attachment, but now there is ANOTHER problem:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8828/screenshot1235529721.png

 

[WhySoSerious]

Ok, I was using Safari 3 and a long time ago, I did a google search in which I found that if I entered a simple command line, it would clear my history every time I closed out Safari.

Now, I just downloaded Safari 4 and the command line I entered a long time ago still remains and is doing its job (clearing the history as soon as I exit Safari), but I want to remove the command line so it remembers my history (for the purposes of Top Sites).

For the life of me, I can't find what the command line I entered was and where I placed it so I can remove it.

Please, any of you programmers or expert google searchers know how to assist?

Thanks

 

[kobefan234]

Is there that top features thing for windows??

 

[.max]

im thinking theres just a simple defaults command instead of adding the Tweaks menu.

That would be "DebugSafari4IncludeFlowViewInBookmarksView" option set to NO.

 

[richard.mac]

cool, cheers.

 

[Digital Skunk]

Not a bad update. Surprised it needed a restart, and it was slow as molasses at first, but now it's kinda nice.

All in all a very welcomed UI update and web browsing experience, even though I don't take web browsing as serious as others.