OmniWeb-l digest, Vol 1 #680 - 20 msgs

[Adam Bass]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:03  PM, 
omniweb-l-request at omnigroup.com wrote:

>
>> The only things I like are bookmarks, progress bar in the URL window,
>> and SPEED.  (Darn its fast!)
>
>
> How do people think Safari compares with Chimera on speed?  I'm
> downloading Safari now, and I use Chimera exclusively now because of
> the speed, only using IE every now and then because Chimera doesn't do
> auto-fill yet (the "type ahead" kind like IE does)
>
> Jim
>

I'd been using Chimera exclusively for awhile until Safari was 
released. It is true that for loading web pages for the first time, 
Safari is not quite as fast as Chimera, but it's usually pretty close. 
The thing that's very fast in Safari is it's caching. Going back to 
previous pages is overall the fastest I've seen in an OS X browser. It 
is usually instant, and when it isn't, it's very close. With OmniWeb, 
going back up to about 3 or 4 pages is completely instant, more so than 
Safari, but anymore than that and it gets pretty slow. Safari maintains 
near-instant speed for seemingly infinite pages.

The main reason I switched from OmniWeb to Chimera awhile back was 
because I had just had enough of OmniWeb's speed and lack of standards 
compliance. I think it's a good browser with a nice interface and great 
features, but because Chimera worked with everything and was insanely 
fast, I decided to switch to that. I love Safari even more. It has a 
very nice interface; I think the brushed metal looks great. I love the 
integrated Snap Back and integrated Google searching (yes, I know it's 
easy to do with an OW shortcut, but Chimera didn't have it at all, so 
it's a step up from that.

Pretty much the only standards compliance issue with Safari is with 
CSS. It works fine with all basic CSS, just not with more complicated 
CSS elements, and it's definitely better than OW's CSS support.

I think it'd be great if OmniGroup decided to use the KHTML rendering 
engine for OW. Once OW is faster and has near-perfect standards 
compliance, I would probably use it. I love OW shortcuts, but I also 
love Snapback and the bookmark system in Safari.

One thing's for sure, I'm never even looking at IE again! :)

Adam