New Safari!

**twister** · February 12th, 2003, 01:31 PM

seems faster to me too. Lets hope it stays that way!

**edX** · February 12th, 2003, 01:31 PM

it has gotten rid of a slightly annoying bug that i used to get when loading the forums - the first 2 threads would often display along with a big black block for a second before then displaying the rest of the page correctly. now it just smoothly loads the page.

**twister** · February 12th, 2003, 01:38 PM

Originally posted by edX
it has gotten rid of a slightly annoying bug that i used to get when loading the forums - the first 2 threads would often display along with a big black block for a second before then displaying the rest of the page correctly. now it just smoothly loads the page.

YES!! Thank Goodness!

**dixonbm** · February 12th, 2003, 01:55 PM

Hmm, not too sure about being faster. It still seems pretty close in speed to Chimera, my preferred browser.

The biggest test I give my browsers it failed. How does it handle foreign fonts and pages. This test isn't so much for me but for my wife. She is Thai.

I tested the site: http://www.sanook.com, my wifes favorite site, and safari CRASHED after I tried moving the window to the left so I could pull on the window resizer to make the window bigger so i could see where the text began. The page loaded off center. i couldn't even see the left side column or the beginning of the text in the main column.

However i must say it did load some of the other Thai sites quite well compared to the sloppy job of the previous beta. Those sites are:
http://www.thairath.co.th
http://www.mweb.co.th

For others out there who use Safari for non-roman character sites how does it stack up for you?

Keep up the work Apple. And get some TABS!!

**wtmcgee** · February 12th, 2003, 01:58 PM

that page loaded off center for me too... but no crash.

**dixonbm** · February 12th, 2003, 02:00 PM

Point of Clarification to my previous post:

Safari didn't crash immediately. It crashed after I moved the window to the far left and then pulled the window-resizer a few times.

**fryke** · February 12th, 2003, 02:28 PM

Strange enough: The update HASN'T just replaced the app. Either it contains a German.lproj itself or it has just updated the old app without removing my custom-installed German language pack.

It's still there... Gotta love Apple...

**fryke** · February 12th, 2003, 02:36 PM

One big CSS bug has been eliminated. If you had hover-links in a paragraph (on one line, for example), it would stay highlighted when moving the mouse out of the focus vertically. It's fixed.