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Safari 1.3

by Scott McNulty Apr 16th 2005 at 10:41AM

Safari IconAttention 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
The biggest feature, of course, is Safari 1.3 is just plain faster than any other version of Safari (currently available that is).
 

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james knowles

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.

July 27 2005 at 8:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael May

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

April 18 2005 at 5:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bryan

Yeah please center the table, i have been thinking that as well :)

April 18 2005 at 5:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Callum Alden

Yeah - I second that; TUAW center and give a little more space, 50px to the left content.

April 17 2005 at 7:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott

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.

April 17 2005 at 6:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jennifer

Happily, Safari is now applying background colors to form elements. Still no love for buttons or borders tho.

April 17 2005 at 3:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Aaron Jacobs

Nicholas, yes you need to remove all plug-ins before opening 1.3.

April 16 2005 at 11:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alister

I got the same problem with all the bookmarks on the bookmark bar reappearing (amazon, apple etc.).

April 16 2005 at 8:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nicholas frota

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?

April 16 2005 at 7:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tiernan OToole

Still crashes when i try to post something to .TEXT...

April 16 2005 at 4:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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