So, today was the ever popular (for all the Mac-addicts out there) World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) where Apple (and other companies of course) usually announce a whole new slew of products or upgrades or technologies or… well you get my drift.
I just want to keep this post brief, as I have work to do today, so I’ll get right to the point… Today Apple released a huge update to their web browser Safari to version 3.0 Beta AND ported the application to run on Windows XP and Vista. I know that the previous version of Safari didn’t really play nice with Vox… and there wasn’t anything that the lovely folks here at Vox could do; it was a Safari problem.
WELL…
When I found out that that Apple had just released a new version of their browser — which, incidentally, I had abandoned because it didn’t really play well with Vox or other “Web 2.0” sites — naturally, I had to download it immediately and try it right away. So far, it LOOOVES Vox… uh… but not so much Inbox.com (my webmail)… oops nor LiveJournal…
Hmmmm… This post is turning out to be more of an “Oh, never mind” entry than I had originally intended. I guess that’s what I guess for reviewing the update as I test it.
Well, the upgrade does indeed bring some good enhancements. Safari finally allows you to use all of the rich-text formatting features Vox and LiveJournal offer without having to use HTML code. Safari also does spell-check on the fly for any site you are using… including your status on Facebook.com. For those of you who are Tab fanatics like myself… Safari has drag and drop tabs so you can shuffle the order as desired — cool but the more I play with it, the less I realise it’s all that necessary.
Okay… I’m stopping now… I really wanted this entry to be short and precise. Looks like I blog like I talk… no exit strategy. ;^)
Summary: Safari 3.0 Beta is waaaaaay better for Vox now. But. It’s apparently still missing features I need.
Remedy to Safari’s problems: Camino 1.5. Works with any “Web 2.0” site I’ve tried. Spell-checks on the fly just like Safari. Ad-blocker (that’s right I have an add-free Vox… seriously!). Pop-up window blocker / pop-up window warning bar. And more…
UPDATE: WTF! SAFARI DOES NOT HAVE A LINK BUTTON!!!
Okay… to be authentic to my test I composed this post using Safari but when I went back to add hot-links for Safari and Camino, I realised that Safari doesn’t have a “Link” button. I actually had to finish the post In Camino.
F*cking nice. Skip Safari fellow MacVoxers and MacLJers. Download Camino and save yourselves a headache.
*curses under breath*
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steelie
SWEET! I will write more when I have more opinions about both browsers but for now, I'm just gosh darn excited! (and I'm already noticing that the new Camino is checking my spelling with every word I type which I like! Yey for exciting new changes!)
Ok, I'm posting this from Safari and you're right — no link button! How ridiculous and cruel that is! Stupids… Camino wins again!
*hug my Windows laptop*:-p
Thanks for the infoI use both Mac and Windows PC, and I am neither Pro-Mac,nor Pro-PC, I still think they are both cool and both have their advantages and drawbacks, like everything else in life 🙂 Goes for browsers as well 🙂
Buhuuu … Safari doesn't let me install it. Tells me that it need some 43,7 MB available disk space and although I have several GBs available it tells me it can not install on the volume "The volume does not meet the requirements for this update." Well, then not. Then I'll stick with Firefox. Did (any of) you have the same trouble installing it?