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SunriseBrowser for web designers



The SunriseBroswer is neat little WebKit based "open-source browser for web developer[s]." Since it's based on WebKit it will render pages more or less as Safari does, but it has some features targeted at web designers. For instance, the window can be automatically resized to 640 x 480 (pictured above), 800 x 600, or 1024 x 768 with one button click (clicking through the options, you can see TUAW was clearly designed to be viewed in a window 1024 pixels wide). It also allows very easy access to the underlying HTML and CSS files, as well as a nice implementation of the download window which includes the URL (allowing easy downloading of a page element such as an embedded video). There are many other convenient and useful features like zoom levels, PDF export of the entire web page, etc. It even has one nice feature I'd like to see come to Safari: the combination of the address field and search field. If you type a URL in the field it goes to the referent, but if you type anything else it's sent to Google as a search.

SunriseBrowser is not, nor is it meant to be, a replacement general use web browser, but it has some neat specialized features and could be very useful for someone developing and testing a website. It is open source and a free download.

[Via MacMerc]

The SunriseBroswer is neat little WebKit based "open-source browser for web developer[s]." Since it's based on WebKit it will render pages...
 

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Toby

I use the firefox webdev kit too but honestly, something about sunrise makes it nicer when you're checking your site and such.
Runs a little faster in my opinion and is very minimal on pixel real estate.
Not a must have but definitely worth a try.

March 24 2007 at 4:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TidalSoup

Whoops... should read @9 ^

March 24 2007 at 3:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TidalSoup

@ 8
I use the exact theme you reference, Adam. While the theme is a definite improvement over the default- the underlying 'ugly' is as you realize....Firefox is not native to our machine.

( The optimized version has been a crash prone headache for me in the past, but I'll give it another shot.)

With this relevation regarding Leopard, and until Camino has the webdev and firebug plug-ins, nothing will come close to Firefox; the alternatives (ie the browser in this article) seem to muddy the water. I'm sure I'll get used to the beast but I'm not happy about it.

And thanks for the links, I appreciate it.

^ powerbookG4 1.25gb 1.5ghz

March 24 2007 at 3:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Occh

Firefox is dog-slow and doesn't use Mac-standard keyboard shortcuts.

It's not an option.

March 24 2007 at 2:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mat Lu

@8: of course I'm aware of that. However, this could be down very slickly as follows: have it do a keyword search if you hit RETURN and have it do a Google (etc.) search if you hit, e.g., OPT + RETURN

March 24 2007 at 2:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

Firefox is ugly? Are you guys serious? I mean, hey, you hate the default theme. Fine, it certainly wasn't designed with a Mac in mind. Hook up a new theme, guys. GrApple (http://www.takebacktheweb.org/) basically makes it Apple friendly and you can get drop-in widget kit replacements like Firefoxy (http://www.amake.us/software/firefoxy/) which will give you Philippe Wittenberg's awesome widget kit, or you can grab a community optimized build of Firefox with a standard Aqua widget kit from Neil (http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2007/02/24/firefox-2002). My own community builds use Philippe's kit, cause I like it better, Neil builds a version for each.

March 24 2007 at 1:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mark

bfad (#2), who needs Command-L + Tab? Option-Command-F gets you directly to the Google search bar.

Article author, combo address/search field is a bad idea: Does a TUAW contributor actually still type full URLs? :-) Are you not aware that many/most URLs don't require full typing? Try entering simply "target," "apple," or "tuaw" (in the address bar).... If the fields were combined, how would the browser know that you *don't* want a Google search in these cases?

#7, I agree. But although I love Firefox's features, I can't use it; can't get past the "ugly."

March 24 2007 at 12:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TidalSoup

Leopard will not be supporting Safari plug-ins.
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/an-end-to-browser-pimping

It's time for designers to officially ditch Safari in favor of the ugly yet functional beast that is Firefox.

March 24 2007 at 11:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andrew Burke

Sogudi (http://www.andrewburke.orcon.net.nz/mac/sogudi.htm) is a great freeware addon to enhance the Safari address bar. You can set it up so that simply entering a space and then a word or phrase, will cause a Google look up of that word or phrase.

Keywords followed by phrases will bring up everything from movie reviews to currency conversion.

This sounds like an ad, but it's not -- I'm just a happy user!

March 24 2007 at 10:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pixelslut

YEah im with you guys on Firefox. The only thing that sounds really useful is the pdf of the entire page. But honestly i dont need that so much although itd be nice to have. Not to mention it uses webkit. Thats almost an inconsequential share of the market... and if it doesnt render EXACTLY like safari then its completely irrelevant. The only benefit to this is the ohter features described which all come for firefox via add-ons.

March 24 2007 at 10:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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