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Safari 1.3
Attention Safari lovers (I count myself amongst your numbers), hide within Mac OS X 10.3.9 is Safari 1.3. Sure, it isn't Safari RSS, but who doesn't love a point release?According to Dave Hyatt, one of the developers of Safari, this release's layout engine is virtually identical to Safari RSS (coming to a Tiger near you April 29th), but of course all the nifty new features of Safari RSS aren't included.
What is included? Dave has ya covered. Here are some quick bullet points:
- Safari 1.3 loads pages almost 35% faster than 1.2
- JavaScript performance has been enhanced
- HTML editing is supported
- Supports more CSS options
- XSLT is now supported
- An enhanced plugin architecture is debuting in 1.3
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
brian christiansen said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
DH: "XSLT Safari 1.3 on Panther now supports XSLT. 10.3.9 includes libxslt, and Safari uses this excellent library to handle XSLT processing instructions it encounters in Web pages"
TUAW: "XSLT is not supported" perhaps you mean "now supported."
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DonIncognito said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Warning: if you use PithHelmet, it will not work with the new version of Safari.
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Caius Durling said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
The keyboard command to switch tabs has changed from
command - shift - right (or left) arrow key
to
command - shift - right (or left) square bracket.
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Scott McNulty said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
brian, that is indeed what I meant, and I just corrected it. Thanks!
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Brian said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Wow, here is a weird one. When I updated to 10.3.9, Safari came back with my bookmarks AND the original bookmarks when you first get a mac (amazon,.mac, News Folder, etc)
Just deleted them but no buggie.
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Callum Alden said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
for fellow web-sculpters, looks like Safari RSS will support the
a href=feed:myfeedname.xml
line... notice the warning Safari 1.3 gives you "you need OS X 10.4 or newer" - OR Newer! Someone's thinking ahead a bit!
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Tiernan OToole said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Still crashes when i try to post something to .TEXT...
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nicholas frota said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I updated my computer, and now my safari can' open... I'm using firefox right now...
is the problem only mine? I use the free version of saft, is that a problem? and if it is, how can I uninstall it?
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Alister said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I got the same problem with all the bookmarks on the bookmark bar reappearing (amazon, apple etc.).
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Aaron Jacobs said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Nicholas, yes you need to remove all plug-ins before opening 1.3.
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Jennifer said 2:05PM on 10-24-2005
Happily, Safari is now applying background colors to form elements. Still no love for buttons or borders tho.
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Scott said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Yes, Jennifer, I noticed that.
Additionally, the way Safari selects text is slightly different and better, in my opinion. A double-click selects the word, a tripe-click the paragraph. This is how things are supposed to be but the old version of Safari was never very good at selecting text, IMO.
Very fast, too!
TUAW, center the middle table in your design! It'll look better.
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Callum said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Yeah - I second that; TUAW center and give a little more space, 50px to the left content.
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bryan said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Yeah please center the table, i have been thinking that as well :)
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Michael May said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Also it now shows the download speed as well as the overall amount downloaded and the time remaining in the download window, a welcome addition imho
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james knowles said 8:54PM on 7-27-2005
i opened safari 1.3 today (am running 10.3.9) and wham- NO BOOKMARKS!
Where'd they go? Can't find 'em ANYWHERE.
Anyone have this happen? What to do? Must have had 400 or so dmmit.
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