Safari 3 heads-up: your widgets may break

Friend-of-TUAW Steve Rubel tipped us that some widgets (Whois and Gmail among them) are broken after installing Safari 3 Beta. Since the new browser swaps out the WebKit framework that the widgets use to render HTML, this isn't entirely surprising, but keep an eye out if you do decide to run the new hotness. There are plenty of examples of troublesome widgets and more over at Apple's Safari discussion boards. Remember, 'beta' means 'may not work well, may not work at all, and might cause pain and suffering.'

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Friend-of-TUAW Steve Rubel tipped us that some widgets (Whois and Gmail among them) are broken after installing Safari 3 Beta. Since the...

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Paul Connolley

The latest updates have fixed the autosave issues and now the Whois widget http://shunuk.co.uk/articles/whois-widget-using-autosave-again is back with autosave. Hopefully someone will let the Wikipedia widget designer know so I can get that updated too!

August 25 2007 at 7:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Paul Connolley

Just as a heads-up, and a thanks for the link to my blog post, I've fixed the WHOIS widget for the time being and until I get the chance to improve upon it and make the experience equal for Safari 3 users as well as Safari 2 users.

June 14 2007 at 3:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eli

Brakes Colloquy and MSN. Shame, the new features are really cool...

June 12 2007 at 5:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dohanlon

Yeah I think it may have screwed up pearlLyrics? Which sucks cause that's not being developed anymore...

June 12 2007 at 1:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

yinyang

Uno and Safari 3.0 don't mix well with iTunes initially!!

If you leave Uno & Safari 3.0 then reinstall iTunes, it seems to work again.

so far!!

June 12 2007 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joon Kang

I don't have any problems on it. I installed it on Windows XP, the only problem I have is viewing Korean webpage, there seems to be no Korean language encoding available for it yet. If I can get that hooked up, it's bye bye IE7, just exclusively Safari and Firefox

June 12 2007 at 9:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Biffo

What was actually the point of releasing this for the Mac?

Seems to me its doing the reputation of Safari on the Mac more harm than good

June 12 2007 at 8:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nico!

It brakes my VelaClock Widget.

June 12 2007 at 8:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dimebag

Safari 3 broke my heart :(

June 12 2007 at 8:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John M.

Using Safari 3 Beta on OS X 10.4.9, fully updated.

Inquisitor is working fine for me - v. 3.0(42), but Sogudi broke the ability to enter URL's in the Address Bar.

Haven't noticed any broken widgets yet, but I don't use very many.

Someone at another site mentioned that they can't use Proxies, but that worked for me when I tested.

June 12 2007 at 7:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply