[to] safari?

[Maurice Weitman]

At 4:36 PM -0500 on 1/7/03, Paul Buckley wrote:
>but probably not goodbye OW, yet anyway.
>
>no shortcuts, source viewer, or auto-fill
>coarse cookie management
>     --I'd expect added features with future releases
>bookmark management much less fluid
>     --sounds like Steve likes things (too) simple and I would not 
>expect OW to lag behind here. I do like that the bookmarks are 
>treated like addresses in Address Book. A unified database that OW 
>could use, too, would be great (sync your bookmarks on the road, 
>etc).
>
>     IMHO: OW is and probably will remain a more full-featured 
>browser.  If only it would work.

Uhhh... Safari's got a source viewer under its View menu.  Of course, 
it's nothing like OW's; just a viewer.

For a pre-release, first-version beta, Safari is simply stunning. 
No, it's not as full-featured as other, more mature browsers, but 
still... it's very, very impressive for its blazing speed and 
compliance; and it's quite usable.

I might have missed the details of Jobs's comments about Open 
Sourcing, but I believe he said that Apple will be sharing its Safari 
code that enables such speed and standards compliance to others. 
This should bode well for OmniGroup and OW, since what sets OW apart 
from other browsers is none of the above; it's their usability 
features and elegance.

Maybe Safari, as an Open Source project, will be able to have a 
feature set that rival's OW's.

I'd bet that OG has been privy to some, if not all details of 
Safari's development; perhaps that's why there's been no talk or 
evidence of a v. 5 as yet.  I surely hope that's the case, and that 
OG will come out ahead for all the effort and time they've put into 
OW.

Regards,
Maurice