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Shiira 2.2 updated for Safari 3 beta's WebKit



When Apple makes changes to WebKit - the open source rendering engine that powers Safari - like they just did with the Safari 3 beta, many, many other Mac OS X apps that have anything to do with websites need to do a little catchup so things continue to run smoothly. Shiira, the feature-packed alternative browser, is just such an app that fortunately just made the leap to Safari 3 beta compatibility. Aside from the twelve new localizations introduced in this new v2.2 update, I can't tell what else has changed. Still, if you installed the Safari 3 beta and noticed that Shiira has been misbehaving one way or another, this new version should calm the waters.

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Mo

Curiously, despite Safari 3's WebKit understanding XHTML served (correctly) as application/xhtml+xml (and sending the appropriate Accept: header), Shiira presents you with a DOM tree, as though you tried to view any random text/xml or application/xml file. On the other hand, Safari 3 deals with it fine.

July 23 2007 at 5:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tuaw.20.robvan269

Agreed on the iPhone-heavy thing. I'm about sick of hearing about the thing. The site is almost The Unofficial iPhone Weblog.

Let's get back to the rest of Appledom!

July 23 2007 at 2:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ralph

I'll stick with OmniWeb, thanks. A lot more features and a lot more stable.

http://www.omnigroup.com/omniweb

July 23 2007 at 2:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

Ya know, I'm losing interest in TUAW... Aside from becoming wayyyyyy too iPhone heavy (great product, but so is the Mac), this website has lost its edge. I've been reading here for a long time, but lately...

July 23 2007 at 1:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sister Christian

Agreed. Dropping the tuaw feed. If they can't get me to the data there really isn't a point reading them. Plus this info was on all the other news sites.
Bye bye tuaw.

July 23 2007 at 12:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

m - That drives me crazy too, but TUAW is a pageview whore site, so they want to maximize KEEPING you here.

It's obnoxious and insulting, but there you go. Click click click.

July 23 2007 at 9:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mjb

It'd be nice if the editorial policy for linking to a software package, or anything else, in the body of the post was to link to the authoritative source -- e.g. the home page of the package.

Rather than the local page of all posts tagged with with that term. That's what the tag listing is for at the bottom of the entry.

I understand that "introduced" linked to the home page -- but that actually surprised me.

What is intuitive for me is that the proper noun get a link to its home, and that something like introduced, if linked at all, would be linked to a blog post or press release or archived listserv announcement.

Just a thought.

July 23 2007 at 9:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

Shiira, though promising, is pretty shoddy in its current state. I would call it alpha-version software. Wake me up when its ready to use.

July 23 2007 at 8:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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