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Apple seeds Safari 4.0 dev preview 2
Apple has started seeding developers with Safari 4.0 preview 2. You may recall that the last developer preview was issued in June after the WWDC.Safari 4.0 DP2 has a build number of 40A12. Just like the last build, this edition scored a perfect 100/100 on the Acid3 test. Developers with access to the Apple Connect website can download Safari 4.0 preview 2 for Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger, and for Windows.
The new version gives users the option to save web pages as an application that can be launched independently of Safari (similar in concept to the SSBs Prism and Fluid). There is no word on when Safari 4.0 might be released to the public.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
DevilGhost said 5:13PM on 8-25-2008
Old news
you guys are slow
macrumors.com had this news 12hours ago
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Danny said 5:35PM on 8-25-2008
12 hours?! What a long time! That's almost years!
JChesed said 5:36PM on 8-25-2008
I sent a tip in about the August 22 released seed and no one even gave it a second thought. I sent it twice.
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Christian A. Stroemmen said 7:04PM on 8-25-2008
I've given them at least 3 stories before any other site has posted it before, once almost a day before, and they've never ever posted it. I've supplied all the needed information, and anything that they need to confirm it, and yet they do not post it.
I've completely given up about tipping TUAW now, and I send my tips to MacRumors and Engadget.
DMD said 3:57PM on 8-27-2008
I've sent them comments before many times about the whole Zbrush Mac debacle.
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=58907&page=140&pp=15&highlight=mac
Nothing published yet....I think companies like Pixologic would think twice about screwing with their customers if they started getting some bad press.
JChesed said 5:37PM on 8-25-2008
btw i sent them in a number of days ago that it was on ADC.
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Galley said 5:40PM on 8-25-2008
Hopefully they'll add an option to make Flash not suck as much.
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Think Adrian said 6:05PM on 8-25-2008
Maybe Apple can come up with something cool and new... like a new light over Flash. a light of silver! Wouldn't that be cool? A new standard that doesn't work with any actionscript apps and could be called Silverlight. Or something. I don't know...
Joe said 6:27PM on 8-25-2008
@Think Adrian
You're crazy.
punkassjim said 7:09PM on 8-25-2008
@Think Adrian
Yes, a new "standard." Or, actually, a new proprietary technology. Joy of joys. And don't gimme that crap about its XML-loving nature. Flash does that too, plus Actionscript is based on ECMAscript, and it's still proprietary.
KarlW said 8:37PM on 8-25-2008
It's called SproutCore (also known as "Cocoa for the web"). It's what powers the MobileMe web interface, and is entirely standards based.
Luqven said 5:52PM on 8-25-2008
The old Safari 4.0 beta could also make webapps that ran indipendantly, so what's so new about this one.
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JChesed said 5:59PM on 8-25-2008
This version made my mail crash repeatedly few days ago when i first used it. Mail began working again once i uninstalled it.
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Joey Beechey said 8:13PM on 8-25-2008
Just installed and it did the same thing as you. Unistalled right away before even using Safari 4.
RJToronto said 9:26PM on 8-25-2008
Same thing happened to me as well. It rendered my Mail app unusable, but once I removed Safari 4, things were back to normal.
James said 6:00PM on 8-25-2008
I just downloaded Safari with Safari.
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Gaius Novus said 6:10PM on 8-25-2008
All I want is real search plugin capability. Inquisitor is great for a kluge, but it's far more complicated than Firefox's searchers.
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James Donevan said 6:17PM on 8-25-2008
Fair warning to cutting edge users: this latest version will cause RSS Visualizer screen savers to freeze and crash System Preferences.
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Howie Isaacks said 11:31PM on 8-25-2008
I wish I had read your post before I installed the new Safari 4. I spent all day trying to figure out what went wrong. It was after an archive and install and then reinstalling Safari 4 that it dawned on me what the cause must have been. I just uninstalled it and reverted back to Safari 3.1.2 and the problem is gone. Next time, I'll check the forums before being so eager to try out a new build of Safari.
punkassjim said 7:10PM on 8-25-2008
All I want to know is when they'll be enabling chrome-less web apps on Mobile Safari.
Well, ok, I guess I'm a little excited about SquirrelFish, but not quite as much.
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