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.'Thanks Steve
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andrew harrison said 1:11AM on 6-12-2007
it also broke my itunes, which could only be fixed after a reinstall [after uninstalling the safari beta]
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tony Roberto Zorzi Silva said 1:12AM on 6-12-2007
i get rid of safari stand and pit helmet and now i have a decent browser .. also get rid of inquisitor .. the new safari beta only runs whithout any plugin
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Zachary said 2:09AM on 6-12-2007
what widget is that in the picture?
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sergio.delagarza said 2:20AM on 6-12-2007
Also breaks Coloquy
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morgancck said 2:55AM on 6-12-2007
Thanks for uploading this, it gave me something to read on my lunch break.
mp3 player zune
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Misc__Graphics_Tools/iPhone_Video_Converter.html
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Fabio P said 3:52AM on 6-12-2007
Beta? i wouldnt even consider this as an Alpha.
check out how safari renders on windows XP:
http://pixel-pics.de/upload/1181634201.jpg
http://pixel-pics.de/upload/11816342011.jpg
http://pixel-pics.de/upload/118163420111.jpg
pretty ugly, and it crashed a lot. it's a shame calling something a beta
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John said 5:06AM on 6-12-2007
Runs really well on Windows
actually lmao
:p
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Michael said 5:08AM on 6-12-2007
"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.'"
That's a little unfair. There are plenty of examples of badly-written widgets. For example, Safari 2 supported misused "script" and "canvas" tags, which were used in many widgets. But the webkit people already said:
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Michael said 5:13AM on 6-12-2007
I'll try again -- some of that got stripped.
But the webkit people already said:
"... At the time Gecko-based browsers like Firefox had a similar quirk, and we decided to copy it for compatibility with particular web sites. However, future versions of Firefox will remove this quirk, and this kind of behavior is going to be explicitly outlawed by future standards that build on HTML, such as Web Apps 1.0. So we will probably remove this quirk in future versions of WebKit as well."
See here:
http://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/
I'd guess that's what they've done.
If so, the problem is not with the "beta quality" of Safari but with the quality of third-party widgets. It's just that WebKit is no longer breaking the standards for them.
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Justin said 5:14AM on 6-12-2007
Safari 3 Beta somehow managed to get rid of all my icons on my desktop, so all I have left is a bunch of texts. Amazing what Apple can always pull off, but... it's SAFARI! on WINDOWS! At Last!
But I really want a mac now...
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john said 5:37AM on 6-12-2007
Remember no more input managers... so delete them before you install safari 3 or you will get errors/crashes
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Rob said 6:15AM on 6-12-2007
It broke yahoo messenger too
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Damien said 6:50AM on 6-12-2007
It broke my digg widgets :(
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Henrik Abel Larsen said 7:01AM on 6-12-2007
My MSN Messenger broke to...
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John said 7:51AM on 6-12-2007
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.
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Nico! said 8:25AM on 6-12-2007
It brakes my VelaClock Widget.
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Dimebag said 8:55AM on 6-12-2007
Safari 3 broke my heart :(
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!! said 8:56AM on 6-12-2007
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
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Joon Kang said 10:12AM on 6-12-2007
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
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yinyang said 11:00AM on 6-12-2007
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!!
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