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Apple Announces Safari 4
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Where did you get that purple mesh desktop wallpaper, I want that one!
Could you please send a link?
I have just realised that when you try to bookmark google... it comes up with this message... ??
That's old. That's been a part of safari since the google bar was introduced.
I have just realised that when you try to bookmark google... it comes up with this message... ??
It just looks different in Safari 4 vs Safari 3:
http://kon.deviantart.com/art/colorFLOW-77660578Where did you get that purple mesh desktop wallpaper, I want that one!
Who cares which features came from which company or which company had them first??? Honestly, what difference does it make? If any copyright violations occurred, there would be lawsuits. That's like saying GM "stole" the air-conditioning "feature" from Ford! Or was it Chrysler who stole it from Ferrari??? Sheesh! It doesn't matter!!!! Pick the browser you like and use it!
because apple always adds there own touch. and they usually implement things better than most companies.
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Zoom is way too fast. Not useable at this point.
I do love the speed of the new safari though. Pretty amazing stuff.
It's not like that at all, and yes, I know you were mostly likely exaggerating for effect. The reason for it — and it is a good one — is hierarchical.
The tab says "everything below me is this content." On Firefox, you had the tab below the address bar and the title bar, all of which (except for the bookmarks bar) applies to the tab.
Now, it would make sense to have the bookmarks above tabs, but then you're not really saving any screen real estate by moving the tabs above the address bar but still having a title bar. I'm not convinced that saving 10px of vertical real estate is that big of a deal, though.
So, I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's not as nonsensical as you're making it out to be by any means.
Oh grow up. None of these borrowed features are either patented or patentable.
Yeah, this is pretty much it. What's even funnier is now some fanboys will claim that Google Chrome stole features from Safari 4!
On the whole I quite like it so far. The tabs at the top don't really bother me, and I suspect I will grow to appreciate the extra space more as time progresses.
One thing I've noticed though which nobody seems to have mentioned so far is - where has snapback gone? Initially I couldn't find the stop/reload button, and it didn't occur to me that it had moved to the end of the address bar as an almost identical icon (the snapback icon) has been there serving a completely different function for years.
Guess I must have been the only person in the world to have used this feature?
I'm also a little frustrated that Top Sites appears to be so arbitrary. When I first saw it I assumed it served a similar function to Opera's speed dial and started clearing out all the sites on the list, the plan being to substitute them with my own custom list. Annoyingly, it looks like this is something that can't be done.
One thing I've noticed though which nobody seems to have mentioned so far is - where has snapback gone? Initially I couldn't find the stop/reload button, and it didn't occur to me that it had moved to the end of the address bar as an almost identical icon (the snapback icon) has been there serving a completely different function for years.
Guess I must have been the only person in the world to have used this feature?
I'm also a little frustrated that Top Sites appears to be so arbitrary. When I first saw it I assumed it served a similar function to Opera's speed dial and started clearing out all the sites on the list, the plan being to substitute them with my own custom list. Annoyingly, it looks like this is something that can't be done.
And Firefox is riddled with features stolen directly from Opera - bookmark nicknames, full page zoom, the sidebar, ad nauseum. It's how software develops and evolves. What's the problem? That's about as ridiculous as saying that Google Chrome stole Safari's idea of basing itself on Webkit.
It can, which I learned from an article somewhere. Open Top Sites in one window and click Edit at the bottom left. Open a new window, go to a site you want, then drag its icon (left of the url) onto the Top Sites window and it will drop in. Then pin it to Top Sites.
Not very intuitive to figure out, but it works well for turning Top Sites into visual bookmarks of your favorite sites.
Yes, implementing a "non-removable" battery in the MacBook Pro is such a better method than having a standard removable battery.
Other than some extremely useless gloss and 3d effects, I fail to see a single thing here that Apple truly improved upon that isn't already available in Google Chrome or Firefox 3. The fact is that Apple hardly does things differently than anyone else; they just make it pretty and charge twice as much. Or, in the case of Safari, use twice the memory.
How about full colour managed browsing (not available on Opera at all and has to be enabled as an option in Firefox)? How about 100% on the Acid3 test (compared to 71% on FF3)? Having faster javascript performance than pretty much every other browser out there is hardly what I'd call "useless gloss and 3d effects".
Didn't you also write this earlier in the thread?
You just look to be contradicting yourself to me. Or maybe you're just feeling trollish today.
All GIFs Work Fine For Me
I just visited www.gif.com to test animated GIFs out, and there were about 16 of them all blinking and moving in their horrid old Angelfire-like way (from the days of internet yore).
So GIFs worked fine for me in this version of Safari 4 (public beta 5528.16), with NO haxies on a standard Leopard install (10.5.6).
I just visited www.gif.com to test animated GIFs out, and there were about 16 of them all blinking and moving in their horrid old Angelfire-like way (from the days of internet yore).
So GIFs worked fine for me in this version of Safari 4 (public beta 5528.16), with NO haxies on a standard Leopard install (10.5.6).
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I said that Safari 4 is a better browser than Safari 3. This is true. That doesn't mean it's innovative or brings new things to the table. It's just an evolutionary release.
Well I can't disagree with your last point at all, although I'm not sure that anybody is implying that the release is anything other but evolutionary.
i fail to see how he contradicted himself.
improved upon safari 3.x? yes
significant innovation that no other browsers have been doing? not so much.
most innovative browser? LMAO