I hope this is a sign of things to come in the future, like more windows applications from Apple. If nothing else a little competition for the present applications is always good.
Bilal
· 2 years ago
Good review! Agree with the extensions part. AdBlock, especially. It's the major one. =P
The ClearType still works, right? I'm on Safari right now and the fonts seem to be fine.
I guess they can fix some issues because it's still in Beta? =|
Bilal
· 2 years ago
Okay, it just crashed on me twice. Happened everytime I tried to change my home page. =/
Sazar
· 2 years ago
The speed, I am not so sure about.
It is definitely fast in some tasks but using it for a few hours on a variety of sites for VARIOUS tasks, it simply does not add up to the benchmarking results Apple so happily showed.
The fonts look terrible and it has started crashing very regularly.
The favorites management is non-existent to say the least simply because of its implementation. It allows no customization and is the primary cause of my crashes so far. Thank goodness for Vista stability else I would be a very annoyed user.
Certainly some nice things but when Apple promises things and fails to deliver in as massive a flop (yes, I said it) as this is, I am far from happy about things.
Heck, I still bash FF2 but it's my primary browser now :)
Safari? Not so much.
Maybe if I was in Kenya.
Bert JW Regeer
· 2 years ago
Safari and iTunes are meant to be run on Mac OS X. Simple. Sure it is nice Apple is willing to release versions for Windows, they will never fit in. The entire rip from Mac OS X and stick on Windows was done on purpose, they want to emulate Safari on the Mac as closely as possible.
Geoff
· 2 years ago
You could pass on your thoughts to the webkit team at irc://irc.freenode.org/#webkit
Kunal Kundaje
· 2 years ago
@Bilal:
>> The ClearType still works, right? I’m on Safari right now and the fonts seem to be fine.
>> Okay, it just crashed on me twice. Happened everytime I tried to change my home page. =/
Yeah, it's crashed on me a few times since yesterday. Too bad there's no session saver for it, eh? ;)
Matthew
· 2 years ago
It works pretty well (for a beta) for me, save for a couple things -- I can't enter Japanese text into form fields using the IME, which makes it useless if I want to do any browsing of Japanese sites. And on top of that, if your default non-Unicode language is set to Japanese then Japanese fonts won't display properly (in pages or menus) since the font names are in Japanese and it apparently can't read them then...
Kunal Kundaje
· 2 years ago
@Matthew: Those are some pretty important things to fix. You should make sure you report those to Apple.
Bilal
· 2 years ago
Kunal: Yeah, I just saw your other post regarding that and it cleared things up...
j. brotherlove
· 2 years ago
Great review! I agree with everything you noted in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. This beta is a good effort but not ready for primetime, for me. The speed is nice but the font rendering is blecch. Surprisingly, it crashed on me from the very start.
yea i swear i have clicked the back button on my mouse 1 million times thinking taht i will go to the previous page... but nope i have to move the mouse to the back button in safari!!! fix it apple!!!
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The ClearType still works, right? I'm on Safari right now and the fonts seem to be fine.
I guess they can fix some issues because it's still in Beta? =|
It is definitely fast in some tasks but using it for a few hours on a variety of sites for VARIOUS tasks, it simply does not add up to the benchmarking results Apple so happily showed.
The fonts look terrible and it has started crashing very regularly.
The favorites management is non-existent to say the least simply because of its implementation. It allows no customization and is the primary cause of my crashes so far. Thank goodness for Vista stability else I would be a very annoyed user.
Certainly some nice things but when Apple promises things and fails to deliver in as massive a flop (yes, I said it) as this is, I am far from happy about things.
Heck, I still bash FF2 but it's my primary browser now :)
Safari? Not so much.
Maybe if I was in Kenya.
>> The ClearType still works, right? I’m on Safari right now and the fonts seem to be fine.
It does use a subpixel rendering technique, but it's not ClearType. You can see a comparison screenshot here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/00088...
>> Okay, it just crashed on me twice. Happened everytime I tried to change my home page. =/
Yeah, it's crashed on me a few times since yesterday. Too bad there's no session saver for it, eh? ;)
Most importantly, those pesky security vulnerabilities are a big problem.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070612-a...