Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Apple Seeds Safari 4 to Developers

Anyone know if Safari 4 will still be available on Tiger? Or is 3.1.1 the end of the line? The just released Quicktime 7.5 still supports Panther so there might be hope yet.
 
This is the message I get when I try to install the safari dev preview.

You can't install Safari Dev Preview on this volume. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update
Click to expand...

What's wrong? I'm installing the universal one. I do have intel..
 
commander.data said:
Anyone know if Safari 4 will still be available on Tiger? Or is 3.1.1 the end of the line? The just released Quicktime 7.5 still supports Panther so there might be hope yet.
Click to expand...

There is a specific download for Tiger so yes it will be available for Tiger.
 
marcj said:
It already is. You can run javascript tests on the webkit site. I got close to a 2x improvement over Safari 3.1
Click to expand...

Yeah, it's really great.

I run Safari on both my Mac at home and XP at work, mainly so I have the same UI in both places. But the XP version is prone to "dead times" when a JS will go into a tightloop and bring down everything -- the window in question, other Safari windows, even other apps. It comes back eventually, but I've force-quit more than once to avoid waiting.

Zero examples of this in the new WebKit builds! And it's _really_ obviously faster too. I guess enough pages use JS that this is major performance boost, because overall browsing speed is noticeably faster.

I'm very happy with it, and would recommend it to anyone. Now if only they could get Find working in text editors...

Maury
 
there should be some other major changes to justify the hype, after all, safari's javascript improved more than 2x from version 3.0.4 to 3.1....
 
I've downloaded Safari 4, but haven't installed it yet. I have a few questions before I do:
  1. Any recommendations on backing up 3.1 before installing 4.0?
  2. What if I need to roll back to 3.1?
  3. Has anyone who installed 4.0 seen issues/problems yet?
 
ggjstudios said:
I've downloaded Safari 4, but haven't installed it yet. I have a few questions before I do:
  1. Any recommendations on backing up 3.1 before installing 4.0?
  2. What if I need to roll back to 3.1?
  3. Has anyone who installed 4.0 seen issues/problems yet?
Click to expand...

There is an uninstall option in the DMG that brings is back to the previous version.
As stable as the previous so seems..
 
MotleyPete said:
File>Save as web application = Awesome
Click to expand...

How is this awesome? It's a 1 megabyte bookmark that will crowd your dock and hard disk. You have no way of seeing what site you're on, whether it's secure, or anything else about it. How long before phishing sites start sending out "web applications" that dupes will use, not being able to see where they are? There's nothing to prevent you from navigating away from the site that you open to (programmatically or otherwise) and it's a simple modification of the entry in the info.plist file to redirect you someplace else.

Feels a lot more gimmicky than useful, and an almost embarrassing implementation that's nothing more than a Webkit window that opens on a stored URL. The potential downside far outweighs any sort of benefit, at least as far as I can tell.
 
So am I the only one who hates the way Safari handles tabs? The context menu that is available when you open too many tabs and the next one just spills over is simply inconvenient.
Hopefully that's something they're going to improve!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back