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Apple Releases Safari 3.1

Why this update anyway ? Here is why...

Well,

A bit strange to update Safari but we will take it ! But, why now ? Apple wants to put in place the latest version of Safari in the wild so they have time to fix it with 3.1.1... Then, we should expect Apple to bring updated services (.Mac for example) that will build on the new features of Safari 3.1... S Jobs said that in the last investors meeting on march 4th....

You read that here first !

JF
 
xUKHCx said:
The way that webkit is incorporated into safari naturally means it will be an older version as they take the build and test and tweak etc. for a while before releasing it to the masses.
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Thats indeed quite opposite to firefox 3. 2 months behind the door tweak? The relationship between Apple and wbkit reminds me the one between Netscape and Mozilla. Except In this case, apple is probably the one in charge
 
clevin said:
Thats indeed quite opposite to firefox 3. 2 months behind the door tweak? The relationship between Apple and wbkit reminds me the one between Netscape and Mozilla. Except In this case, apple is probably the one in charge
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Actually, Firefox 3 is on a different code base (a branch) than the bleeding-edge developmental code (the trunk). There are behind-the-scenes changes going on for the Mozilla 2.0 code base that are not being applied to the Firefox 3 / Mozilla 1.9 branch. Once Firefox 3 hit the beta process, you were almost guaranteed not to see major behind-the-scenes changes (although front-end theme changes are not out of the question).
 
Macula said:
I do have the problem: After installing 3.1, the Google logo has indeed been replaced by a small question mark.

Clearing caches didn't help.
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It's very strange. When I try to view the image with the link:
http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif
it redirects to http://www5.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif&ei=itzfR6nONo7WgwTZrt07&redir_esc=www5

Taking out the "&ei=itzfR6nONo7WgwTZrt07&redir_esc=www5" in the address, I can load the image.

The problem seems to be coming from the www.google.com versus www5.google.com. The page and image (without the 5) works fine in Firefox.

I'm guessing this is a Safari bug but don't know why others aren't having this problem.
 
More Search Engine Choice on Windows?

I installed 3.1 in my Boot Camp installation of Windows Vista and noticed that Apple gives the option of choosing either Google or Yahoo in the search bar. What gives? Is the Windows version covered under a different search engine agreement than the Mac version? I'd still like to see Ask.com as an option without having to install an add-on that will break -- that was the main reason I stayed with Camino until Leopard.
 
interfuse said:
One thing that I hate with Safari (& Firefox) is that you need to use both hands for the keyboard shortcut of alternating between tabs. This is annoying, especially in Safari when the cursor is in a text box, the tab shortcut key doesn't even work.
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I agree - that's I switched to using Cmd+Shift+"[" (to go left) or "]" (to go right) and without the Shift i can go back and forward pages in that tab.
 
scrollbar gone!

In Safari 3.1 my scroll-bar is gone! It disappeared after a restart of Safari.
Check the attached screenshot. I'll try deleting my preferences to see what happens.

Btw sorry if this is allready mentioned in this thread, I can only read the first 2 post on every page :eek:

Picture 2.png
 
Eraserhead said:
Its probably because the site designers have coded for IE, rather than Web Standards, you should report the problem to them.



IE 7 is rubbish though at displaying websites, and it causes web designers large numbers of headaches over supporting it.
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Not to be a fan-boy but I would go as far as to say that IE 7 *is* the biggest source of headaches in the wonderful world of website design.

...When you live by your own rules...
 
Fahrwahr said:
Actually, Firefox 3 is on a different code base (a branch) than the bleeding-edge developmental code (the trunk). There are behind-the-scenes changes going on for the Mozilla 2.0 code base that are not being applied to the Firefox 3 / Mozilla 1.9 branch. Once Firefox 3 hit the beta process, you were almost guaranteed not to see major behind-the-scenes changes (although front-end theme changes are not out of the question).
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well, As I understand, gecko 2.0 is being worked on, and Acid 3 changes are being worked on, I know there are a lot of progress on that side as well.

But the overwhelming developing strength is on firefox 3. Firefox 3 hit beta several months ago. After which, there are still significant development, the javascript speed improved 200% when beta 3 was out, another 200% when beta 4 was out, after beta 4, until today, there are another 20% improvement on that.

Same improvements can be seen on memory management, cairo backend is being updated as well.

I agree the huge structural change and acid 3 compliance will be after firefox 3. But all the changes in firefox 3 nightly are huge and is taking majority, if not most of mozilla ppl's energy, compare to basically no changes in safari 3.1 after its branching by apple.
 
Dafke said:
In Safari 3.1 my scroll-bar is gone! It disappeared after a restart of Safari.
Check the attached screenshot. I'll try deleting my preferences to see what happens.

Btw sorry if this is allready mentioned in this thread, I can only read the first 2 post on every page :eek:

View attachment 108350
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It works fine for me in Leopard, that is a weird issue though...

morespce54 said:
Not to be a fan-boy but I would go as far as to say that IE 7 *is* the biggest source of headaches in the wonderful world of website design.
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Well its not quite true, IE 6 is worse :p.
 
I've got several intensive rendering tasks running in the background, all my RAM is completely chokablocked and still loads like greased lightning. ...'tis running smooth as a babys bottom! :D

I could almost say its 'snappier'!
 
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