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Apple Safari
Bogie Started conversation Jan 9, 2003
Thought I'd start this tread to let you guys know that Apple has just launched its own web browser called "Safari". It is based on KHTML rendering engine comonly found in Linux web browsers. PC web developers will have to buy an eMac to use it as it is only available for MacOS X!
http://www.apple.com/safari/
According to the spheil, Safari offers precision layout:
Quote: "Rest assured, Safari renders Web pages properly according to the latest Internet standards. So pages that use advanced HTML, XHTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript and Java specifications just look right. And of course you can view the content in QuickTime, Flash and Shockwave plug-ins. Going beyond standard accuracy, pages in Safari look beautiful, thanks to fully anti-aliased text. Safari takes advantage of Jaguar’s rich support for Unicode, which lets you view sites in different writing systems, such as English and other Roman languages, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew or Arabic — even on the same page."
Currently, text is rendered in 72ppi, but a fix is on the way to use 96ppi (the same text sizes used in Mozilla and IE)
One of the browsers developers has a blog at: http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/ ... which makes interesting reading.
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Jan 9, 2003
Got it. Tried it. Might use, but more likely I'll stick with Mozilla and Chimera and check back Safari's next release when it fixes the transfer speed problem. Even then I don't know if I can give up tabs.
But it looks like another excellent browser for the Mac, which continues to be the most standards-compliant system. Even IE for the Mac had near perfect css support long before IE for Windows.
And I think the 17" PowerBook would be a much better choice than the eMac. 
Apple Safari
Bogie Posted Jan 9, 2003
I've just come back from trying Safari on a friends Mac... all I can say is WOW! It rendered my XHTML web-site with only one small (barely noticable) CSS formating error.
The lack of tabs for browsing is a bit annoying, but the bookmark organsation system is very simle to use, as is the keyboard shortcuts for the most comonly used bookmarks.
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Jan 14, 2003
It has a problem with some cookies, including h2g2's. I can't log in to this site using Safari.
Apple Safari
Bogie Posted Jan 14, 2003
Try setting the preferences for cookies to "accept cookies: always". The installed default setting "accept cookies: only from sites you navigate to" may be blocking the cookies from the H2G2 site due to the fact it is hosted via a proxy server.
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Jan 14, 2003
Thats a pain, wonder why you'd need hardware or some such to use it on a PC with Linux or BSD. or are they just doing another bluggy comecial app that no one else will ever benifit from?
Long Live GNU!
-- DoctorMO --
Apple Safari
dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Jan 14, 2003
That's not it - there seems to be bug with persistent cookies. It lets me log in OK as long as I don't click the "remember me" option.
DoctorMO, I have no idea what your comment means 
. Safari is just the Apple version of Konqueror http://www.konqueror.org , and Apple has sent their changes to the code back into the open source project so they may eventually turn up in the linux and BSD versions.
Apple Safari
DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Jan 15, 2003
Oh thats good... I was worried for a minet that *another* browser with difrent stadards for the stadards was comming out.
-- DoctorMO --
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- 1: Bogie (Jan 9, 2003)
- 2: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Jan 9, 2003)
- 3: Bogie (Jan 9, 2003)
- 4: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Jan 14, 2003)
- 5: Bogie (Jan 14, 2003)
- 6: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Jan 14, 2003)
- 7: dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC (Jan 14, 2003)
- 8: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Jan 15, 2003)
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