Safari 3
Wow, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the Safari 3 beta release yesterday, which I am typing this post on right now. Some of my observations so far:
- New find (Cmd+F) UI – the new find seems to take page from Firefox’s find UI. Safari’s is at the top though and supports highlighting on the page in a typical Apple like manor.
- Add Bookmarks for These Tabs – Book mark all your open links
- Finally support for stylized buttons!
Alpha transparency in PNGSorry that’s IE7 ;-)
- Web inspector is now built in (to the debug menu)
- Resizable Textareas!!! This is one of my favorites so far.
- Speed – It’s noticeably faster on a a few web apps I’m using.
- More to come…
One thing I am noticing more than Safari 2 is the loading bar (ie the address bar) is loading like crazy as I’m typing into Typo and it is refreshing via AJAX. Also, I am noticing some differences in handling styles, mainly overflow scrollbars on divs that aren’t there in Safari 2.
Oh, yeah and thankfully it’s now available on Windows!!! Who saw that coming? Now there is no excuse for people running Windows…now if they could just do something with the craptastic font support on Windows I might consider using it never mind.
Things that piss me off (rant)
My iBook G4 sucks. I bought it as an upgrade to my iBook G3 way back when and it’s pretty much sucked. The battery used to fall out for no reason, other than I was doing something important and unplugged. I am sure that contributed to a premature death of my less than a year old battery…then I bought a new one from FastMac and every now an then the iBook seems to not charge the batter any more…like this week. I’ve been without battery all week even though it’s connected and correctly seated it just refuses to charge. Grrr!
Yes, time to upgrade soon. Is a MacBook Pro the way to go?
