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SockhoEasyFind 1.5

SockhoEasyFind 1.5 05/05/2004 11:01 AM
Change the search engine that’s used by Safari and perform searches on several search engines simultaneously.

Use SockhoEasyFind 1.5 to change
Safari's default search engine

Use SockhoEasyFind 1.5 to change
Safari's default search engine 05/04/2004 09:09 PM
A new version of SockhoEasyFind 1.5 has just been released. SockhoEasyFind is a powerfull application for MacOS X (cocoa) that allows you to search the web easily. The new version now integrates with Safari and lets you set Safari's search engine and the language in which resuls are displayed.

Safari Magic 1.0 adds numerous tools to
Safari

Safari Magic 1.0 adds numerous tools to
Safari 07/20/2004 02:43 AM
Stephen Becker has announced the release of Safari Magic 1.0, a utility which adds several tools to Safari...

Safari 1.3

Safari 1.3 04/16/2005 01:24 AM

Those of you running Panther can now update to 10.3.9. This update includes Safari 1.3 and new versions of WebKit, WebCore, and JavaScriptCore that contain thousands of improvements we've made to the engine since Safari 1.2.

What you are getting is all of the new standards support, new WebKit capabilites, site compatibility fixes and performance optimizations that are also present in Safari 2.0 for Tiger. The layout engines for the two are virtually identical.

Here are some of the highlights:

Page Load Performance
Safari 1.3 loads pages overall 35% faster than 1.2 as measured by IBench. In addition to improving the overall page load, Safari 1.3 will display content sooner than 1.2 did, so that subresources don't hold up the initial display of the page.

JavaScript Performance
We have substantially improved the performance of the JavaScript engine in Safari. I encourage you to check out Safari 1.3 on this benchmark for example to see the improvement relative to 1.2.

HTML Editing
Safari 1.3 supports HTML editing, both at the Objective-C WebKit API level and using contenteditable and designMode in a Web page. The new Mail app in Tiger uses WebKit for message composition. You can write apps that make use of WebKit's editing technology and deploy them on Panther and Tiger.

Compatibility and Security
Compatibility and security are our number one priority in WebCore, and Safari 1.3 has many important compatibility fixes. For example, percentage heights on blocks, tables and cells now work much better in Safari 1.3. min/max-width/height support has been added. More of the table-related CSS properties are now supported. DOM methods like getComputedStyle are now supported.

The DOM Exposed
The entire level 2 DOM has been exposed a public API in Objective-C. This means various holes have been filled in Safari's DOM level 2 support. In addition to exposing the DOM to Objective-C, the JS objects that wrap DOM objects can also be accessed from Objective-C, allowing you to examine and edit the JS objects themselves to inject properties onto them that can then be accessed from your Web page.

XSLT
Safari 1.3 on Panther now supports XSLT. 10.3.9 includes libxslt, and Safari uses this excellent library to handle XSLT processing instructions it encounters in Web pages.

Plugin Extensions
For those of you writing WebKit apps, a new Objective-C WebKit plugin API is supported that lets you put Cocoa widgetry into the Web page more easily. In addition enhancements to the Netscape Plugin API (made in conjunction with Mozilla Foundation) have been implemented for plugins that require cross-browser compatibility.

Did I mention it's really really fast? :)

In case you're curious about differences between the Tiger and Panther versions of the engine, they mostly have to deal with frameworks that changed underneath WebKit. For example we have new faster image decoders on Tiger (that also handle PNGs correctly), so you'll find that Tiger fixes some of the PNG gamma issues that will still exist on Panther. In addition the new decoders are incredibly fast and are now run on a separate thread on multi-processor machines on Tiger.

The network layer has also been improved on Tiger, so this may be another source of differences in behavior between the two operating systems. Overall, however, it's likely that content and applications you develop with WebKit will behave identically on the two operating systems.

Let us know what you think.

XUL in Safari

XUL in Safari 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

Safari 1.1 is included with the new release of Mac OS X, Panther. From Dave Hyatt's list of Safari 1.1 features:

A complete implementation of the XUL box model. Safari on Panther supports the complete XUL box model, including horizontal and vertical boxes, the ability to flex, and the ability to reorder content and reverse content. If you're building canned content that you control using WebKit, you'll find a whole new range of layout possibilities at your disposal. Need to create dynamically sized headers and footers and flexible center content? The XUL box model can do that. Need to center an object within the viewport? The XUL box model can do that too.

With Microsoft's alternative to XUL seemingly a few years away, are Apple looking to beat them to it with an implementation that's compatible with Mozilla?

Safari 1.2 bug seen here

Safari 1.2 bug seen here 02/12/2004 11:24 AM
We seem to have inadvertently revealed a bug in Safari 1.2 -- and we think we know specifically what Safari is doing wrong. The bug currently makes oatmeal of some of our layout elements. If not fixed, it could discombobulate sites that are much more important than ours.

Safari 1.2

Safari 1.2 02/05/2004 10:24 PM
Safari 1.2 includes several great new features, the most important of which (to me) is its ability to correctly render... (28 words)

Safari+NNW

Safari+NNW 03/11/2003 09:44 AM

An article about how NetNewsWire and Safari complement one another can be found at O'Reilly here.

I agree, although Safari really needs to be able to reuse windows for URLs sent from applications like NetNewsWire rather than always opening a new window every time.

going on a safari...

going on a safari... 03/11/2003 02:00 PM
so far i'm digging the new mac os x browser safari. i haven't tested all css stuff and java, but...

Safari 1.1

Safari 1.1 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

Safari 1.1 is here. Those of you who picked up Panther can take it for a spin. This release is big step forward from 1.0, chock full of bugs fixes, improvements and UI refinements.

As far as new WebCore features, here's a few highlights:
(1) Better standards support. You'll find fixes for positioning bugs, overflow bugs, floats, tables, gzip support, generated content using ::before and ::after, DHTML. You name it, we've improved it.
(2) Speed. We're still fast, and we're only going to get faster.
(3) CSS2 support. In addition to all of the bug fixes to be more standards-compliant, we also added support for CSS2 properties like text-shadow and new display values like inline-block. Try using text-shadow in conjunction with ::selection. It's cool. :)
(3) Safari on Panther supports rgba values in CSS for specifying border, background, foreground and shadow colors.
(4) Support for the CSS3 opacity (using -khtml-opacity) property. Make entire blocks and inlines transparent without resorting to transparent PNGs.
(5) A complete implementation of the XUL box model. Safari on Panther supports the complete XUL box model, including horizontal and vertical boxes, the ability to flex, and the ability to reorder content and reverse content. If you're building canned content that you control using WebKit, you'll find a whole new range of layout possibilities at your disposal. Need to create dynamically sized headers and footers and flexible center content? The XUL box model can do that. Need to center an object within the viewport? The XUL box model can do that too.

And in case you're curious, here's what we've already got working post 1.1 in WebCore that you can look forward to:
(1) Support for the title attribute using tooltips
(2) The ability to tab to all controls in a Web page and to manipulate them from the keyboard.
(3) Support for table border collapsing.
(4) Support for the CSS cursor property.
... and a whole lot more ...

Enjoy the upgrade and as always send us your feedback (trackbacks preferred). We're listening.

Safari RSS

Safari RSS 07/01/2004 01:46 PM

I haven't had a chance to talk about this, but I thought I'd again start by briefly clearing up a point of confusion. Safari RSS is not the name of the entire Safari browser on Tiger. It is the name of the RSS/Atom feature in Safari itself. If you pull down the About information in Safari on Tiger, you'll see that the version is 2.0.

On Safari

On Safari 01/09/2003 11:40 PM
Safari's the neat-o new quick browser for OSX that runs off the Konqueror guts and impresses the heck outta your neighbors.

Safari 1.0

Safari 1.0 11/03/2003 09:08 PM
The fastest and easiest-to-use web browser ever for the Mac.

No Safari For Windows... Yet

No Safari For Windows... Yet 06/09/2004 05:57 AM
Dave Hyatt clarifies that iTunes does not use WebKit to render the music store.
That would probably means that Apple did not port the web browser to Windows for its iTunes for Windows.

CutX for Safari 1.0

CutX for Safari 1.0 07/28/2004 11:18 PM
Block X-Rated medias (extension for Safari web browser).

Safari Beta V64

Safari Beta V64 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
I posted a screenshot of the latest rogue beta of Safari. Beta V64 adds a few improvements and really rocks on stability. Check it out.

Bookmarklets with Safari.

Bookmarklets with Safari. 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
So, on my home mac, I’ve started using Safari again, it’s really snappy and useable, but some of the javascript...

Safari, RSS, NetNewsWire

Safari, RSS, NetNewsWire 06/28/2004 02:57 PM

“So, Brent, what do you think of Apple putting RSS reading into Safari?”

The first thing to know is that we have no intention of stopping NetNewsWire development.

The second thing is, I’m not surprised. I half-expected it last year, and this year I’d heard rumors (even seen some screen shots) before WWDC, so it’s no shock. Syndication is such great technology, it makes sense for Apple—and Microsoft—to add RSS reading to their systems.

The RSS reader in Safari is not a full-featured newsreader, at least from what I could tell by the demo. For instance, it doesn’t appear to remember what items you’ve read or tell you how many unread items you have. And some of the other features that it does have—such as RSS searching—are coming in NetNewsWire 2.0.

So... even with Safari’s RSS reader, there is still a need for newsreaders that do more. (Much more.)

What I like about this announcement is that it popularizes syndication. Despite its fast growth, there’s still a huge education job to do. The average Mac user doesn’t know about the technology yet, but putting it in Safari means they will know about it, and it gives the technology a kind of validation, an Apple seal of approval, for the people who are slower to look at new technologies.

It also may mean that Apple will evangelize RSS to publications that haven’t yet adopted it. Which is great: it’s not something we have much time for, and when CNN hears from Apple it carries a bit more weight than when they hear from Ranchero Software.

This could trigger a shake-out in the Mac OS X newsreaders market. There are a dozen or so readers right now, but by this time next year there may be Safari and just a few others. (NetNewsWire will be one of them.)



So I don’t feel as we’ve been Sherlocked. But it does look to me as if the Konfabulator folks might have something to say about Dashboard.

Safari Width 1.0

Safari Width 1.0 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
This script lets you easily set the width of the frontmost Safari window. It displays a list of screen widths from 160 to 1600, including the current window's width (which is already sorted and highlighted in the list), and an 'Other...' item, in case the list isn't long enough for you. Known limitations: Windows always set flush to upper-left. No readme file yet. Note: There is currently no description or mention of the script on the web site. [d/l]

Safari Beta v64

Safari Beta v64 03/13/2003 10:21 AM

Goodbye Safari

Goodbye Safari 12/31/2004 01:24 AM

That Mac users are also switching to Firefox says something very good about the experience it offers. By Johnathon Williams

XSLT in Safari

XSLT in Safari 08/15/2004 10:51 PM

Some time ago we switched over to libxml in Safari for the processing of XML (and XHTML) files. I'm happy to report that we now have basic XSLT support working in Safari using libxslt. You can style your XML using xml-stylesheet processing instructions. I don't yet have a programmatic JS API working for transforming documents, but that shouldn't be too difficult to add. What I really need are XSLT test cases that use xml-stylesheet. Track back or comment if you know of some good test cases online that I can use, or just generally have suggestions to make regarding XSLT support.

Report: Safari 1.3

Report: Safari 1.3 04/18/2005 10:56 AM
The new version seems to have a few problems, including bookmark issues, Java, changes to Open In Tabs and Image saving, crashing and font rendering, as well as some positive experiences.

Safari, 10.3.9, and third-party
add-ons...

Safari, 10.3.9, and third-party
add-ons... 04/18/2005 11:17 AM
A number of people have written in either asking for help with a 10.3.9 Safari crash, or with hints to solve such crashes. So I thought I'd just write one hint with the explanation of the cause and the easy fix. Basically, i...

Safari Caching

Safari Caching 05/26/2004 11:57 PM
This is the single biggest reason I do not use Safari. The caching within the program is horrible. I had a report of an issue...

Surfin' Safari

Surfin' Safari 01/02/2004 08:41 PM
"I love the tactics some people use when filing bugs. In particular the tactic of saying something inflammatory in order to goad the receiver of the bug into fixing it. You see this a lot in Bugzilla, and also in reported Safari bugs."

Sophisticated Safari

Sophisticated Safari 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
“Like everything Apple makes, Safari combines a clean, simple interface with sophisticated functionality,” writes Walt Mossberg in his Personal Technology column for the Wall Street Journal. “It has a built-in popup blocker, and a built-in Google search box that spares you the need to navigate to the Google Web site.” [Jan 12]

Where Is Safari 1.1 For Jaguar?

Where Is Safari 1.1 For Jaguar? 11/13/2003 02:56 PM

apple's safari dev FAQ

apple's safari dev FAQ 07/25/2004 10:51 PM
a handy reference

Safari Extender 1.3.5

Safari Extender 1.3.5 04/26/2004 10:58 PM
Add features to Safari, Tab Sets, Cut & Paste Tabs, print with date and more!

Fonts in Safari

Fonts in Safari 03/20/2003 05:32 PM

An update on the issues raised by John Gruber in his blog.

(1) Safari *is* using the wrong fonts for rendering to the screen. Because of our use of lower-level APIs, we missed out on a font substitution step that happens when rendering to the screen where the bitmap font ends up getting chosen for rendering. This is a bug in Safari, and we're looking into fixing it.

(2) The global OS AA setting is not being obeyed.

(3) Above and beyond the OS AA setting, AppKit also has hardcoded rules at a higher level, e.g., don't AA Courier or Monaco. Again we are missing these hardcoded rules.

I'll keep you updated as we work on solutions to these problems. Thanks again, John, for the excellent analysis of Safari's font handling.

New: Safari Magic 1.0

New: Safari Magic 1.0 07/20/2004 11:26 AM
Safari Magic enhances the web browser with tools to selectively collect, organize, and edit text, graphics, and pictures from multiple web pages and non-contiguous sources.

Beyond the Safari Hype

Beyond the Safari Hype 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Apple's new Safari Web browser has taken off faster than a brushfire on the Serengeti Plain. Within 24 hours of its January 7th introduction, Apple counted more than 300,000 downloads. But how many people are actually using Safari for everyday Web browsing, and what do Mac community gurus think of it?

"Pimp My Safari"

"Pimp My Safari" 03/25/2005 06:44 AM

Safari and KHTML

Safari and KHTML 06/05/2005 11:17 PM

KHTML developers respond to my posting of the WebCore Acid2 patches here and here.

For what it's worth, the patches I posted are to WebCore, which consists of both KHTML and KWQ (our port of Qt). They are posted to illustrate all the WebCore bugs that had to be fixed in Safari to pass the Acid2 test. They are not solely KHTML patches. The antialiasing bug was in KWQ, and so doesn't even apply to KHTML. The better object element support necessarily involves KWQ as well, since the plugin code is (obviously) platform-specific.

What do you think Apple could be doing better here? Comment or trackback. I'll read it all.

Mac Tip: Safari Gets Tabbed

Mac Tip: Safari Gets Tabbed 09/25/2004 09:55 AM
G4 Tech TV Sep 25 2004 2:17PM GMT

New Safari builds

New Safari builds 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Before Safari build 60 was released I saw all build 58, 59 and a bunch of earlier builds in my logs, mostly from apple.com IPs. $ grep Safari * | perl -pe 's/.*(AppleWeb.*)/$1/' | sort -u | tail -1 AppleWebKit/62 (like Gecko) Safari/62" Amusingly it's not from 17.* IP addresses (Apple), or even IPs that looks like they are from California. ThinkSecret posted a report about build 62 saying that it has tabs (yay). Maybe it leaked? ObSafari: Neato trick....

Safari Hates Me

Safari Hates Me 01/31/2003 03:59 PM

I've been trying my hardest to get the dynamic portions of this site to work in Safari. It doesn't seem to be a problem with the scripts, Safari just doesn't recognize my second Javascript file. It all works great in every browser but Safari, but anything I do in my second JS file has no effect on the page. I've tried everything I can think of, but I'm running out of ideas. If the site acts a little funny in the next couple hours it may be because I'm pulling my hair out and messing around with the Javascript to try and get it to work fine. Other sites are rendering Javascript as complex as mine in Safari without issue, hence I'm convinced Safari just has it out for me. I'll update when I have more information, and less of a headache. PLEASE leave me a comment or an email if you have any ideas.

PC Mag Safari Comments

PC Mag Safari Comments 01/22/2003 07:39 PM
In their Safari review, PC Magazine says: Most Mac fans have been surfing with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x, and the Mac browser market has been in a rut. In addition, IE, although well-designed, is notoriously slow in rendering pages. Are...
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