Wednesday, February 12, 2003 |
11:51 - Safari Forges Ahead
http://www.apple.com/safari
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Safari users, fire up your Software Update thingies-- there's a new beta out (v60).
The Safari Update 2-12-03 improves the compatibility with popular web sites based on Safari user feedback, further improves the performance of loading web pages and Flash content, adds support for XML, increases standards conformance and delivers improved application stability. The update also enables access to web sites that offer self-signed security certificates.
From my initial impressions, it's a lot faster at large-table form performance, something that was lacking in the earlier beta; it's also got proper text-dragging handling, and lots of other things seem greatly improved. URL completion seems much more demure now. Table layout and reflow (quickly resizing the window a whole bunch to make it re-layout everything in real-time) is very snappy-- though, unfortunately, it still doesn't hold a candle to the velvet-smooth reflow of that same page in IE on my Windows machine, and that machine is a mere 667MHz. Ah well.
Safari still doesn't have keyboard focus/navigation for drop-down menus, and I'm still seeing issues that might be specific to my workplace network, where almost every page fails to load one or two objects in the course of loading; it seems like it's not being aggressive enough with retrying requests where packets get dropped, or something. I wonder if there's any way to troubleshoot/debug that. And this beta won't have any fixes to the monstrous list of comments and TrackBacks that users sent to Dave Hyatt the other day; we'll have to wait another few weeks for that, I daresay.
Posted form data still loses the final CR/LF at the end, for some reason; and lines with italics in them are leaded more than lines without, which makes paragraph layout kinda gross. That's really gotta get fixed.
But I'm very pleased with the changes so far. This is shaping up to be the real deal.
Thanks to J Greely, who alerted me to this before I had a chance to check the site (which I've been doing a lot lately).
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