[to] safari?

[David Hampson]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Maurice Weitman wrote:

> At 4:36 PM -0500 on 1/7/03, Paul Buckley wrote:
>> {snip}
>
> 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.

{snip}

Apple _uses_ a lot of gpl code, Help->Acknowledges has GPL2 listed. 
There are plenty of other copyrights mentioned.

Safari fails with a lot of css.  One of my pages wont even show up. 
(OmniWeb scrambles this one a lot, but at least it's readable.)  There 
is no navigator bar telling you where a link will go when you hover. No 
tabs, which OW has promised for version 5.

The only things I like are bookmarks, progress bar in the URL window, 
and SPEED.  (Darn its fast!)

But, you can't even customize the toolbar!

-Dave



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