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Saft 10.0.1 is fully Leopard compatible

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Nov 6th, 2007

Back when we were worried about Input Managers in Leopard, the biggest cause of concern for me was the potential loss of Saft, the absolutely essential plugin for Safari from Hao Li. Well now that the situation has settled down (at least for the time being), Hao has released a new version of Saft 10.0.1 that conforms to the new Input Manager restrictions in Leopard. It has basically the same features as before, but is now compatible with Safari 3.0.4 in Leopard. He originally released Saft 10.0 as a Safari launcher (which actually didn't work for me), but the new 10.0.1 version allows it to run as an Input Manager and works like a charm.

Saft 10.0.1 is $12 to buy or $6 to upgrade from the Tiger version. A demo is also available. As far as I'm concerned, it's worth every penny (and then some).

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Tags: input-manager, safari, saft

Filed under: OS, Leopard

The sort-of final word on Input Managers in Leopard

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Nov 5th, 2007

There's long been a controversy brewing about Input Managers in Leopard. At first it seemed that they were doomed. Now that Leopard is out, however, the news is not so dire. Input Managers are allowed in Leopard, but the restrictions on their use have increased. Apple has released a Document outlining these restrictions, and warns that Input Manager "functionality is likely to be disabled in a future release." As it stands, however, they can still work so long as the conditions are met, most importantly that they're located at /Library/Input Managers (instead of the corresponding folder in the user's home directory) and the permissions are set properly. This hint over at Mac OS X Hints sets out the procedure to make these changes with a couple of simple terminal commands. The hint itself focuses on the Safari search tool Inquisitor, but the same idea should work (in principle) for other Input Managers (though some will still be incompatible for other reasons). We also previously mentioned Plugsuit which accomplishes the same task, but apparently in a different way (see below).

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