Comments on: Sticky-less Hover

By: Gambit

Gambit — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 22:06:31 +0000

I just noticed it. When you drag imges from the browser to the desktop it does it instantly, they way mozilla does.
Before it would connect and download the image with the download manager.

By: Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:16:06 +0000

Printing is greatly improved in Safari 1.2.

By: Gambit

Gambit — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:43:00 +0000

Its always nice getting an upgrade to your most used piece of software. Im glad they brought back the old file icon with the download status bar on it from Os 9.
Bit of a bummer for 10.2 people, its a little unfair that they cant use anything above Safari 1.0. I suppose that how it goes with software, if you want the latest in one you’ve gota have it in all.
When designing I find that Safari is the easiest browser to work with, most css blunders still seem to pass, while IE5.5 mac, is the worst, css must be perfect. I suppose it good, keep one neat and correct.

By: Chris Vincent

Chris Vincent — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 01:01:47 +0000

Actually, you could use the multiple Safaris. You’d have to get the old versions of the Web Kit, then you’d have to switch between them. It would be fairly easy to do. The only conflict I see is if new releases of Mac OS X have changed the interface between the system and Web Kit, but we’d have to see.
I’d be willing to try it out and write it up if I could be provided with the older Safari installers (or copies of Web Kit and the app).
Anyone?

By: Jayme

Jayme — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:46:34 +0000

I wish Safari 1.2 was as good as Firebird. But sadly it is not. Bummer.

By: France

France — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:47:38 +0000

Well, I tried :) I renamed and packaged up the Safari 1.1 app, manually downloaded 1.2, installed it, placed the renamed 1.1 app elsewhere, opened 1.1, the About Safari listed it as 1.1… but 1.2′s new features were in there.
Eh, well.

By: Shaun Inman

Shaun Inman — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:18:02 +0000

And the answer becomes “Not unless Dave can score us some stand-alone versions.” Since Safari is tied to the system version of WebCore a stand-alone would have to be hacked to run an isolated instance of an outdated WebCore. I don’t know if this is possible. Of course, we though the same about IE PC…
The form linked in my previous post was fixed by removing the width of the containing element and floating it which forces it to synch up around its contents. I was able to remove the Safari hack all together. (Just don’t look at the source–tag soup–it had to display normally in NS 4.x because of the client’s constituency)

By: France

France — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:38:24 +0000

Hmm, darn. Safari 1.2 available only for OS X 10.3.
I totally understand Apple’s business decision here since they want everyone to buy 10.3. But you and I will be debugging against 1.0 and 1.2. The question becomes, “can you run multiple versions on 10.3?”

By: tarun

tarun — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:51:54 +0000

It actually annoys me how much stuff you have to tab through from the address bar to the page if you have your bookmarks bar available. Especially since the bookmarks bar has its own shortcuts.

By: Colly

Colly — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:58:07 +0000

Speaking of form elements, drop down menu css styles are suddenly taking effect in Safari 1.2. All the tinkering for the benefit of other browsers has appeared to shrink my drop down menus to child-size versions that may or may not be particularly ‘accessible’, but have been described as ‘cute’ by everyone in the office…