Safari Features - Password storing, status bar, all included
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JetwingX
iWork for Apple <3
hey all mine were there. They all got carried over from IEOriginally posted by edX
yea, i wonder why everybody's sites wouldn't all come with safari?
and now my scroll is finally working again
another thing i noticed is that it gives you the option to open quicktime Movies in QT!!!
(this doesn't go anyware just to prove point)
www.apple.com/cool.mov
wonder if it opens MP3's with iTunes...
[edit]
YEAH!!!!!(not real link jsut to prove point)
www.apple.com/mp3.mp3
hulkaros
The Incredible...
Safari for the most part is faster than anything else and YES including the latest Chimera (aka Navigator)!
While many times it is NOT THAT faster than Chimera but at least it is MANY times better in stability areas than Chimera...
As for Flash stuff with Safari Marvel dot.comics worked just fine while with all the other browsers I had problems and YES even on the Dark Side of the force... Just for checking things out organise a Safari @ www.marvel.com
As for Hotmail problems maybe it is M$ fault for using M$javaScript and not THAT JavaScript
Also, for the interface NOT giving us the ability to mess the icons left/right/etc. it seems to me that they had in mind the iApps where CLEARLY us the users cannot arrange the icons however we like/please/want to... Still, report to Apple what you want and hopefully they will listen!
As for TABS I want them as well as most of the people around here and I think that Mozilla/Chimera showed us that a speedy browser can exist while using MANY features at the same time! I think that Apple can overcome any possible feature/speed balance problem they may have while building Safari 1.0 easily...
Come on guys! Isn't amazing what they managed with a beta app? It is SO:
-Stable
-Fast
-Compatible
-Cool
that is scary for the 1st beta version of a beta browser...
For me the online life from now and on will always be an on-going Safari
While many times it is NOT THAT faster than Chimera but at least it is MANY times better in stability areas than Chimera...
As for Flash stuff with Safari Marvel dot.comics worked just fine while with all the other browsers I had problems and YES even on the Dark Side of the force... Just for checking things out organise a Safari @ www.marvel.com
As for Hotmail problems maybe it is M$ fault for using M$javaScript and not THAT JavaScript
Also, for the interface NOT giving us the ability to mess the icons left/right/etc. it seems to me that they had in mind the iApps where CLEARLY us the users cannot arrange the icons however we like/please/want to... Still, report to Apple what you want and hopefully they will listen!
As for TABS I want them as well as most of the people around here and I think that Mozilla/Chimera showed us that a speedy browser can exist while using MANY features at the same time! I think that Apple can overcome any possible feature/speed balance problem they may have while building Safari 1.0 easily...
Come on guys! Isn't amazing what they managed with a beta app? It is SO:
-Stable
-Fast
-Compatible
-Cool
that is scary for the 1st beta version of a beta browser...
For me the online life from now and on will always be an on-going Safari
Hotmail problems are solved, hulkaros. You just have to set cookies to 'always'. Certainly, you might not want that, but it's how you can solve the troubles in Safari. (Apparently, Hotmail stores cookies from several servers.)
Storing passwords works just like in most other browsers, so I don't see what people mean there...
And pages just look better with Safari than with Chimera or any kind of mozilla build.
Storing passwords works just like in most other browsers, so I don't see what people mean there...
And pages just look better with Safari than with Chimera or any kind of mozilla build.
i mean that i have setted to remain logged in to some sites, instead i need to log in every time i go to those sites.
i had the problem with hotmail also in windows and IE - i didnt allow some of the ad. or ad.doubleclick style servers to offer me cookies so i could not log in i haven't tried, enough to check the spams every few weeks..
i had the problem with hotmail also in windows and IE - i didnt allow some of the ad. or ad.doubleclick style servers to offer me cookies so i could not log in
i haven't tried, enough to check the spams every few weeks.. I don't think so. I think Safari Sucksfari, and here's why:
1. Not as fast on my machine as latest build of Chimera. Also not as "snappy" when loading pages.
2. Autocomplete has some sites in there I haven't even visited or have no reason to visit. My prime example: 1800FLOWERS. I don't like starting to type and seeing a list of URLs I haven't visited. (The idea behind this is why M$ when to court. Looks like Apple is free to shove things I don't want down my throat as much as they want. This in itself will keep me away from Safari).
3. Brushed metal. Sure you can hack it, but I shouldn't have to. I use OS X for Aqua, not someone else's idea of a "cool skin".
4. Still in beta. I've already been test driving Chimera, I'm not in the mood to relearn another frickin' browser. Now we have how many to choose from? Maybe Microsoft had the right idea after all by just incorporating it into the OS.
On the note of "learning" another browser - there has been pretty much no learning curve for me, coming from ie.
two things i have had to get used to:
- cmd-click opens new window as expected, but to get to orginal window, one uses cmd-tilde, whereas in ie one would use cmd-shift-tilde.
so windows are ordered slightly opposite to ie.
- used to use cmd-L, type url, then cmd-enter to open new window (good for posts that mention other sites without an href). this does not work in Safari, one must open a new window, then type url. not much of a hassle, just a little re-training. if anyone knows of a way to do this that i should be learning, would appreciate the advice.
one thing that i would like to learn that i haven't been able to come up with:
hot-key combination to get into the google window in the toolbar - i would be very, very happy to find out that there is one
on that note, I was forced to use a pc (windows 2000 pro) for two years and the google toolbar is the single biggest thing i miss from browsing in ie on windows. one other nice feature of that bar was a button that would take you up through the hierarchy of a site, even though you didn't enter on the home page and drill down. very nice - cmd-L, right arrow and delete (alot) is the only way i can replicate this.
cheers all,
Ian
two things i have had to get used to:
- cmd-click opens new window as expected, but to get to orginal window, one uses cmd-tilde, whereas in ie one would use cmd-shift-tilde.
so windows are ordered slightly opposite to ie.
- used to use cmd-L, type url, then cmd-enter to open new window (good for posts that mention other sites without an href). this does not work in Safari, one must open a new window, then type url. not much of a hassle, just a little re-training. if anyone knows of a way to do this that i should be learning, would appreciate the advice.
one thing that i would like to learn that i haven't been able to come up with:
hot-key combination to get into the google window in the toolbar - i would be very, very happy to find out that there is one
on that note, I was forced to use a pc (windows 2000 pro) for two years and the google toolbar is the single biggest thing i miss from browsing in ie on windows. one other nice feature of that bar was a button that would take you up through the hierarchy of a site, even though you didn't enter on the home page and drill down. very nice - cmd-L, right arrow and delete (alot) is the only way i can replicate this.
cheers all,
Ian
owaters
Registered
Noticed a few issues with Safari which need to be addressed.
1. It appears that iSafari has not included CSS on text boxes and buttons. This is a big issue for web designers like myself who want our sites to look like they should! I know the Aqua buttons do look lovely but the text boxes really should be customisable in colour, border style, bg colour, font colour, font family etc.
2. When I have a window open full size, and I hit Command-N for a new window, the new window is shifted slightly to the right and down so the 'Close, Minimise, Maximise' buttons are still visible on the window behind. This means you have to move the new window in order to get to the scroll bar and resizer. This can get very very annoying!
Hope these issues have been resolved by the final release.
When is the final release date aiming to be? do we know?
1. It appears that iSafari has not included CSS on text boxes and buttons. This is a big issue for web designers like myself who want our sites to look like they should! I know the Aqua buttons do look lovely but the text boxes really should be customisable in colour, border style, bg colour, font colour, font family etc.
2. When I have a window open full size, and I hit Command-N for a new window, the new window is shifted slightly to the right and down so the 'Close, Minimise, Maximise' buttons are still visible on the window behind. This means you have to move the new window in order to get to the scroll bar and resizer. This can get very very annoying!
Hope these issues have been resolved by the final release.
When is the final release date aiming to be? do we know?
dave17lax
Inventor of the Egg Wave
nice thread, guys and gals
I like Safari a lot, on my machine it's definitely faster than IE, but pretty much feels the same as chimera.
I also like the download window - looks like ichat.
All in all, I'm excited for it's future.
By the way, wdw, your avatar is really smooth on netscape 4.6 for OS/2 warp, which is what we use here at work. I guess back in '97 they were making good browsers too.
I like Safari a lot, on my machine it's definitely faster than IE, but pretty much feels the same as chimera.
I also like the download window - looks like ichat.
All in all, I'm excited for it's future.
By the way, wdw, your avatar is really smooth on netscape 4.6 for OS/2 warp, which is what we use here at work. I guess back in '97 they were making good browsers too.
Interestingly - tabbing seems to take one through whichever form fields appear on the page & ultimately bring you to the google search box. Last stop before the search box is the address bar, so actually cmd-L then tab gets one into the google search box.
Note that shift tabbing starts one at the last form box on the page, so the google box sits in some grey nether region.
On this note, tab seems to be the easy way to get to the search box in most iApps with a couple of keystrokes - same interface feature, same behaviour - must be by Apple.
If this is the second new thing I learned today, does that mean I can take tomorrow off?
Note that shift tabbing starts one at the last form box on the page, so the google box sits in some grey nether region.
On this note, tab seems to be the easy way to get to the search box in most iApps with a couple of keystrokes - same interface feature, same behaviour - must be by Apple.
If this is the second new thing I learned today, does that mean I can take tomorrow off?
i don't rememebr if it was in this thread or another that I read somebody complaining about not having passwords stored in the keychain. Safari crashed for me, and I had to delete the prefs and reinstall it, and when I tried to go to a password protected site that I had saved, it asked me to allow keychain to acces the password. I guess it does have it.