Monday, June 11, 2007

Safari 3.0: Apple's beta is Google's alpha

I'm playing with Safari 3.0 on Mac and Windows. On Windows it has problems with dual monitors [1], some font configurations, BlogThis! bookmarklet didn't work, and it's crashy. On OS X we get full support from Gmail, Gcal, Google Documents and blogger/BlogThis (!). Google spreadsheets don't work on either platform.

On a minor footnote Safari finally renders renders nested bullets correctly. That's been a long time coming.

So now there's competition for Camino 1.5 on OS X. Talk about an embarrassment of riches! (BTW, Safari does inline spellchecking as nicely as Camino.)

A word of warning, however. Those who do not know Apple will need this translation table:
  • Google pre-alpha 1.0 = Apple beta
  • Google alpha 1.0 = Apple 1.0
  • Google beta 1.0 = Apple 2.0
  • Google production 1.0 = Apple 3.0
Apple treats early adopters as alpha testers. You have been warned.

Update: Even though it seems to work on blogger, it really doesn't. Many post actions fail.

Update 6/17: The developers made this classic windows programming error.
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2 comments:

  1. Unknown13/6/07 2:24 PM

    John,

    Are you able to upload photos to Snapfish using Safari 3.0 Beta?

    thx

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  2. disposableidentity18/8/08 6:42 PM

    Nested bullets? Crazy. Web designers (or anyone else setting type) should be using them.

    Nested bullets are a carryover from a few bad "graphics packages" like PowerPoint.

    Being upset that they weren't supported is like criticizing Safari for not displaying the "blink" tag correctly. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element)

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