Preview of Safari 3.0 features

[bbloke]

Musings from Mars is showing an article which previews features of Safari version 3.0, which comes with Leopard. The page includes video clips to show the features in action and include:

1. Rearranging tabs in a window
2. Dragging tabs from a window to create a new browser window
3. Dragging tabs between open windows
4. A "Find" feature which updates as you type
5. The new "Find" feature can dim the screen and highlight the search results only
6. Text boxes (TEXTAREA) can now be resized within the browser window at will

The new features look quite promising to me, especially the handling of tabs and the new Find method. I had always thought Safari's method for finding text was a little crude, particularly when compared to Firefox.

[fryke]

I'm all for the tab-handling. I miss this a lot - mostly when I accidentally close a tab which should be at the left-most position. I'm not so sure about the textarea thing yet, though. I'll have to actually use it before I can like it... (OmniWeb has a similar feature which works fine in my opinion. A plus sign in text areas creates an actual _window_ for the textarea. I like that and might prefer it to design-altering techniques.)

[live18]

All these features are great, but something tells me there is more features that Apple doesn't want to tell us.

[Galley]

Yeah, those new features certainly don't warrant a full point increase. I'd like to see the features from Saft integrated.

[Lt Major Burns]

the only real major visible difference between safari 1 and safari 2, was a bloody RSS reader. big whoop.

[Convert]

I'd like a "are you sure you want to close all the tabs?" feature because I'm getting tired of accidentally hitting Apple + Q instead of W and closing the program..

[Sunnz]

Sounds really, really nice!!

But again Firefox 2 is going to be stable soon!!!

Decisions!!

Would Safari 3 only come with Leopard?

[hawki18]

I take Firefox 2 please