AppleScripting NetNewsWire

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AppleScripting Xcode

AppleScripting Xcode 03/17/2005 03:38 AM
Rogue Amoeba: “Updating each one by hand, which I’ve done in the past, gets to be real painful after about the third one. Luckily, Xcode has an amazingly complete AppleScript dictionary.”

NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7
released

NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7
released 12/22/2003 02:58 PM
This release of NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7 adds support for favicons and feed URLs, boosts performance, and fixes dozens of bugs. The full version includes a new widescreen view especially suited for laptops.

See Wha t’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.7 for details.

NetNewsWire, NetNewsWire Lite updated to
v1.0.7

NetNewsWire, NetNewsWire Lite updated to
v1.0.7 12/22/2003 06:30 PM
Ranchero Software today released NetNewsWire 1.0.7, the latest version of its easy-to-use RSS newsreader for Mac OS X...

NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.8

NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.8 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.8 fix a couple small but important bugs and add a bunch of feeds to the Sites Drawer.

See Wha t’s New in 1.0.8 for details.

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 out

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 out 03/15/2003 08:20 AM
Ranchero reports on the release of NetNewsWire 1.0.1, the greatest RSS reader for the mac, and the only shareware product...

NetNewsWire 1.0.7

NetNewsWire 1.0.7 12/23/2003 04:29 PM
An easy-to-use RSS web newsreader for Mac OS X.

NetNewsWire 1.0.6

NetNewsWire 1.0.6 10/29/2003 07:09 PM
There are so many good things to say about NetNewsWire that it is hard to find anything wrong with it. By Bryron Hinson (ActiveMac via MyAppleMenu)

NetNewsWire 1.0.1

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 03/14/2003 06:18 PM
NetNewsWire is a scriptable RSS reader and weblog editor. Cha nges in this release include bug fixes in both the news reader and the weblog editor.

NetNewsWire

NetNewsWire 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Brent has a new beta of NetNewsWireLite out. This one contains redirection and bandwidth monitoring, the two hot topics du...

NetNewsWire 1.0.7b7

NetNewsWire 1.0.7b7 12/18/2003 01:08 PM
NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7b7 have been posted.

In the process of working on 1.1, we fixed a mach port leak and some performance bugs, and we didn’t want to wait until 1.1 before making these fixes available, so we decided to do a 1.0.7 release.

1.0.7 also contains a few of the smaller features that were planned for 1.1: a new wid escreen view is especially suited to laptops; favicons< /a> are now displayed in the Subscriptions pane; NetNewsWire now responds to the f eed URL scheme.

See the change notes for more new features and bug fixes.

The features chart comparing NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite has been updated.

NetNewsWire 1.0.8

NetNewsWire 1.0.8 12/17/2004 06:35 PM
NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS Web newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface -- similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express -- can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.

NetNewsWire 1.0

NetNewsWire 1.0 02/12/2003 01:04 AM
NetNewsWire 1.0 has officially shipped. Which is great news. Thanks to Brent for all the work he did in getting this out. The only problems

NetNewsWire 1.0.1b4

NetNewsWire 1.0.1b4 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
NetNewsWire 1.0.1b4 fixes some news-reading bugs.

Read the cha nge notes for the full scoop.

NetNewsWire 1.0.1b3

NetNewsWire 1.0.1b3 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
NetNewsWire 1.0.1b3 includes a variety of bug fixes.

One of the most common causes of problems in both the news reader and the weblog editor is unencoded ampersands—and NetNewsWire is now more forgiving of this error.

Downloading categories from Radio UserLand weblogs should work again. (It was broken in a recent beta.)

See the cha nge notes for more info.

NetNewsWire 1.0.1b5

NetNewsWire 1.0.1b5 03/11/2003 02:00 PM
NetNewsWire 1.0.1b5 fixes some crashing bugs, partly fixes a bug regarding Movable Type categories, and moves commands from the View menu to the Window menu. (Commands that should have been in the Window menu to begin with, since they have to do with opening and hiding windows.)

Read the cha nge notes for the full scoop.

NetNewsWire 1.0.1b2

NetNewsWire 1.0.1b2 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
NetNewsWire 1.0.1b2 contains mostly fixes for the new XML-RPC code the weblog editor uses.

It’s still a beta! There are plenty more bugs to fix.

By the way, I hope to release my new XML-RPC client under a BSD license some time this week.

New NetNewsWire 2.0 betas

New NetNewsWire 2.0 betas 02/05/2005 09:06 PM
Ranchero Software today announced new public beta versions of NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite. I've been a beta tester for a while now, and I have to say (along with a lot of other people) that Brent runs the best damn...

Beta: NetNewsWire 2.0b3

Beta: NetNewsWire 2.0b3 09/23/2004 11:22 AM
The RSS and Atom newsreader adds flagged items that are kept indefinitely, incremental searches, an embedded web browser, and other changes.

NetNewsWire and Atom

NetNewsWire and Atom 12/22/2003 05:24 PM
We’re getting some people asking about our plans for Atom support in NetNewsWire. Here’s the deal:

A future version of NetNewsWire will support the Atom syndication format. The weblog editor will also support the Atom API.

That’s it. There isn’t really anything else to say.

NetNewsWire Updated

NetNewsWire Updated 12/22/2003 05:26 PM
Ranchero Software has updated NetNewsWire, its popular newsfeed aggregator for Mac OS X. Version 1.0.7 offers many improvements, including support for newsfeed favicons, a new widescreen view format, quick subscribing from feed: URLs, and other performance enhancements. NetNewsWire is $39.95. A free version, with less functionality, is also available.

What’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.7

What’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.7 12/23/2003 04:58 AM
NetNewsWire

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NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.7 12/23/2003 04:29 PM
An easy-to-use RSS Web newsreader for Mac OS X.

About NetNewsWire Lite

About NetNewsWire Lite 05/20/2004 01:12 PM
Peter R. Wood asked on the comments for the previous post if there would be any commitment to releasing new versions of NetNewsWire Lite.

Yes. We plan to continue NetNewsWire Lite. It will continue to be free. The next release of Lite will ship on or about the same day NetNewsWire ships.

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.8

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.8 12/17/2004 06:35 PM
NetNewsWire Lit is an easy-to-use RSS Web newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface - similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express - can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.

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.

NetNewsWire 1.0.8fc1

NetNewsWire 1.0.8fc1 01/24/2004 09:30 PM
NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.8fc1 are the same as 1.0.8b1 except that the Sites Drawer has been updated with new feeds. Two new categories, Movies and Music, were created.

We’re looking for deal-stopper bugs. If none are found, we’ll change the version number to 1.0.8 and release it.

NetNewsWire 1.0.1fc1

NetNewsWire 1.0.1fc1 03/12/2003 08:08 PM
NetNewsWire 1.0.1fc1 fixes a weblog editor bug with saving drafts and includes a couple other minor changes.

See the cha nge notes for the whole scoop.

This is a final candidate release. We’re looking for deal-stopper bugs, bugs bad enough to prevent this from being released as 1.0.1.

Once 1.0.1 is released, we’ll go back to fixing bugs—and also adding new features, such as supporting more Movable Type options, allowing Radio users to specify that a post shouldn’t go on a home page, and so on.

NetNewsWire 1.0 Released

NetNewsWire 1.0 Released 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
NetNewsWire 1.0 has been released with a $29.95 introductory price.... NNW is without doubt the best blogger tool on the...

NetNewsWire and Jaguar

NetNewsWire and Jaguar 07/03/2004 06:04 PM

To be clear, in my previous post I’m thinking out loud about requiring Panther for NetNewsWire 2.0.

It’s just thinking, though. No decision has been made, I’m just bringing up the topic.

But if you’re a NetNewsWire user who uses Jaguar, I’d especially love to hear what you think. (And I’d like to know why you’re still on Jaguar. I’m sure there are good reasons I haven’t thought of.)

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 Ships

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 Ships 03/14/2003 05:06 PM
NetNewsWire 1.0.1 has been released! Here’s the Wha t’s New in NetNewsWire 1.0.1 page. The biggest changes since 1.0 are crashing bug fixes.

But there are some other nice things too—the news reader, for instance, is more forgiving of feeds with errors, so parsing failures will happen less often.

Today I’m starting work on 1.0.2, which will include more bug fixes but also some new features. Based on the feedback I’ve been getting, it sounds like what’s most wanted are new features for the weblog editor—specifically, support for more Radio and Movable Type options.

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 released

NetNewsWire 1.0.1 released 03/14/2003 07:33 PM
Ranchero Software today released NetNewsWire 1.0.1, the latest version of the company's popular RSS news reader and weblog editor...

Switched to NetNewsWire

Switched to NetNewsWire 01/15/2003 01:42 AM
Well, it's official. Last Friday I switched to NetNewsWire Lite even after I managed to break it. I've found that AmpehtaDesk is a memory hog and I simply don't have the time to deal with upgrading, making sure that AmphetaOutlines...

Mac OS X security bug and NetNewsWire

Mac OS X security bug and NetNewsWire 05/19/2004 05:48 PM
Recently a security bug was reported in Safari. Clicking on certain URLs could cause a script to run on your machine.

Sylvain Carle alerted us to the fact that this security bug is not really a Safari bug, it’s a bug in WebKit.

WebKit is Safari’s rendering system, provided by Apple as part of OS X, which other applications use too—including NetNewsWire.

NetNewsWire uses WebKit to display feed descriptions, so NetNewsWire (and other WebKit-using applications) may be vulnerable to this bug.

We certainly expect that Apple will fix the bug with a security update, and that should solve the problem. In the meantime we’re looking at the possibility of fixing it just for NetNewsWire, in case Apple doesn’t come through with a fix.

For reference: here’s the report on the bug, and here’s a CNET article about it, which states that Apple is aware of the issue.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at brent@ranchero.com.

NetNewsWire and Keynote

NetNewsWire and Keynote 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
An interesting feature request for NetNewsWire appeared on Tom Bridge’s weblog today—creating Keynote presentations from RSS feeds.

Tom Bridge writes: “Imagine for just a moment with me. You wake up, and on the way to the shower flip open your powerbook, fire up NetNewsWire and go get clean. When you've come back, NNW has created a Keynote presentation for you.”

It’s a good idea!

But... I have a few things to do first—fixing some bugs, adding new features to the weblog editor—before I could work on this. It will be a few weeks before I can do much with this idea.

NetNewsWire 1.0.2 progress

NetNewsWire 1.0.2 progress 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
In case you’re curious on how NetNewsWire 1.0.2 development is going...

It’s a four-step process:

1. Move low-level, relatively bug-free code into separate frameworks. The RSS parser, for instance, goes into a framework. (The main reason is that it makes code maintenance and testing easier, and it makes it so I can re-use this code easily in other software.)

2. Fix a bunch of small quick-hit bugs. Things like bugs with date display and keyboard shortcuts. A particular crashing bug in the weblog editor. That kind of thing.

3. Fix—or at least dramatically improve—performance and memory issues when one has lots of subscriptions and lots of unread headlines.

4. Add a few new features—mostly weblog editing features such as supporting more Radio and Movable Type options. (Some other things too.)

I gave myself a week to do step 1—but it’s already finished. I did it over the weekend. It was totally fun, by the way. If you’re a Cocoa developer, but you’ve shied away from building frameworks, you should know that it’s a piece of cake.

So now I’m in the middle of step 2, doing a bunch of quick-hit bug fixes. This is one of my favorite things to do, because it’s all about polish, getting the details right. With some good hours of brain-time you can knock off bugs by the anthill.

Later this week I’ll move on to performance and memory issues, then on to adding new features probably next week. Then I’ll release the first beta of 1.0.2.

NetNewsWire 2.0 will run on Jaguar

NetNewsWire 2.0 will run on Jaguar 07/05/2004 07:16 PM

After listening to all the feedback (here and elsewhere) on this issue, we’ve decided to support Jaguar in NetNewsWire 2.0.

Jaguar was the first really good OS X release, and we’d support it forever if we could, but some day we’ll have to drop it. Not yet, though.

In case you’re curious, here’s why we decided to continue to support Jaguar:

1. We can provide the Panther-only features we want to provide without dropping Jaguar support.

The main thing is searching. SearchKit is part of Panther but not part of Jaguar, so Jaguar users just won’t get this feature, but Panther users will.

2. It would be more work at this point to switch over to Panther-only than to stick with Jaguar compatibility.

To switch over to using things like Cocoa bindings—which make our life easier but don’t provide new features to users—would mean more work. At some point, yes, we’ll make the switch, but only when there are other compelling reasons to drop Jaguar support.

Anyway, that’s the scoop.

Thanks for all the feedback!

NetNewsWire 2.0 Status

NetNewsWire 2.0 Status 08/19/2004 08:47 PM
So—where’s NetNewsWire 2.0?

Well, we’re working quite hard on it—which is why I haven’t been doing much posting, and why if you’ve sent me email I may not have replied.

It’s not ready for a public beta yet. The main new features are all in place. What remains is fixing bugs, adding a couple small features, updating the Help, adding polish, basically just taking care of all the many little details.

In other words, we’re in the final sprint. The to-do list is down to 95 items.

(If you’d like to help test, and you have a NetNewsWire license, just send me email. Bravery is required, though, because it does still have bugs. Most of the 95 items on the to-do list are bugs to fix.)

What remains to do

Only a few of the remaining items are big things like updating the Help book. Most are small, it’s just that there are many of them. To give you a flavor...

- A smart list will cause a crash if you unsubscribe from a feed and the smart list includes headlines from that feed.

- The Atom feed parser doesn’t support base64 encoding.

- The order of columns in the headlines table is not remembered between runs.

- The 32K limit to the HTML differences feature should be removed.

- Etc.

Each of the above—and most of the rest of the list—are small, easy-to-fix items.

This, luckily for me, is my favorite part of software development. I enjoy fixing bugs much more than I enjoy adding big new features, probably because I can fix a bunch of bugs in a few hours. It’s like eating chocolates throughout the day instead of eating one big steak once a week.

That’s not to say that there aren’t lots of big new features in 2.0. There are. What we’re doing right now is making sure that it’s not just ambitious but good.

(A reminder, in case you missed it: NetNewsWire 2.0 will be a free upgrade for everyone who has bought or will buy NetNewsWire 1.x.)

Random discussion of one small part of one feature

Here’s what tabs ended up looking like.



How many different ways can tabs be done? You’d be surprised. We tried just about every configuration.

I really wanted the favicons because they perform a usability function: the icons make it easier to find the tab you’re looking for. It’s not just for looks. (We’re Mac users, right? We like icons.)

But the close button needs to be on the left since that’s where it is in Safari, and since close buttons appear in the upper left of Aqua windows. (When we tried putting them on the right, testers could just not get the hang of it.)

We could have put them together—close button, favicon, then title—but that looked very jumbled.

Another option, which had its supporters, was to combine them. The favicons would become close buttons on mouseover. Slick, yes, but at the cost of explicitness. If you didn’t mouseover, you didn’t know there were close buttons.

Another option was to do it like Firefox. In Firefox, tabs have favicons on the left, and there’s just one close button to the right of all the tabs. (But when we tried it, the feedback was almost completely negative, even though many NetNewsWire testers use Firefox. I personally liked this approach, but that’s just me.)

It’s funny, though, because the Firefox style had a unique selling point: it meant you could close an “overflow” tab by clicking a close button. Try it in Safari—open a bunch of tabs so that you get the little tabs menu widget on the right. Select one of the tabs from that menu. Is there something you can click to close that tab? No, you have to use the Close Tab command. With Firefox you can still click the close button.

In the end we went with the configuration pictured above, and we decided to make it possible to turn off the favicons, since it became one of those 50-50 things: some people really wanted them, but other people really preferred a cleaner look.

All of the above is just to say that software development is about trade-offs, and this is a textbook case because the trade-offs are obvious and there is no one best way to do it.



By the way, I’ll be doing a session called “Using WebKit: User Interface Challenges” at O’Reilly’s Mac OS X Conference this October. I probably won’t talk about the specifics of tabs design—it will be at a higher, more conceptual level.

NetNewsWire Goes To Version 2

NetNewsWire Goes To Version 2 09/22/2004 10:44 AM
The public beta of NetNewsWire 2.0 is out, and it has a ton of new, and interesting features. In particularly for me, the Smart List feature is really interesting. Look likes the role of MyAppleMenu.com plays in the grand scheme of things is diminishing.

NetNewsWire 2.0 public beta

NetNewsWire 2.0 public beta 09/21/2004 09:04 PM
Ranchero Software has released the first public betas of NetN ewsWire 2.0 and their new weblog editor, MarsEdit 1.0.
Grok Description matches for AppleScripting NetNewsWire
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Selectively delete Safari favicons from
the icon cache

Selectively delete Safari favicons from
the icon cache 12/24/2004 12:41 PM
d1taylor: "I updated the favorite icon (favicon.ico) on my web site, just to find that Safari insists the old one is good enough, even though other browsers are smart enough to show the new one. After some time spent here at macosxhints and other sites, I learned enough about how the Safari icon cache works to write this useful little shell script that works just fine with Safari 1.2.4. Remember to make the script executable (chmod +x script_name), and quit Safari before trying to use it. "

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...

Flex Component Basics – Part 1: Coding
an Analog Clock

Flex Component Basics – Part 1: Coding
an Analog Clock 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
Create and customize an analog clock from scratch and learn fundamentals for building Flex components.

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.

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 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 1.2

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 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+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.

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 1.3

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.

Safari 1.0

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

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.

Report: Safari 1.2

Report: Safari 1.2 02/10/2004 02:41 AM
We have tips and discussion about performance, plus much more on the new release.

Safari Beta v64

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

Safari 1.3 Seeded

Safari 1.3 Seeded 06/29/2004 05:20 PM
With Safari 2.0 coming with Tiger in 2005, Apple is still working on improvements in the current version of Safari. Safari 1.3 (v146) was seeded to d...

Safari 1.2 Details

Safari 1.2 Details 02/10/2004 10:33 AM
David Hyatt posts a detailed log of improvements that can be found in Safari 1.2. Changes cover LiveConnect, Downloads, Priting, Accessibility, CSS...

Report: Safari

Report: Safari 02/10/2004 11:51 AM
Readers offer a tip about fixing Java install problems, much discussion of browser performance, plus compatibility issues and choosing between GIF and PNG files.

Use AIM Express with Safari

Use AIM Express with Safari 07/30/2004 10:29 AM
If you want to access your AOL Instant Messenger account at a computer without iChat, AIM, or one of the various third party clients installed, you can always use AIM Express. However, according to its website, Safari isn't s...

Safari 1.2 Changelog

Safari 1.2 Changelog 02/10/2004 12:12 PM
Dave Hyatt has posted a lengthy Safari 1.2 Changelog at his website which lists all of the major changes to this lovely browser since 1.1. The only thing missing from this list is a note stating that the new 'roll-over image flashes' bug is noted and will be fixed as soon as possible.

Where Is Safari 1.1 For Jaguar?

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

Safari vs. Camino

Safari vs. Camino 03/13/2003 10:14 AM
Mr. Zeldman has compiled a list of some of the web design issues that arise between Safari and Camino (formerly Chimera) on the Mac. As he mentions, "The topic of browser differences is as interesting as lint. But as web designers, we need to know about these differences in the...

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.

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 1.2 Released

Safari 1.2 Released 02/10/2004 02:41 AM

Safari 1.2 has been released for Panther (OS 10.3). Here are some of the technical highlights:

LiveConnect - LiveConnect is now supported for Java applets, allowing for bi-directional communication between Javascript and Java. Many Java sites that didn't work in earlier versions of Safari will now work properly in 1.2.

Personal Certificate Support - Personal certificates are now supported, so sites that were previously inaccessible are now available in the latest Safari.

keygen Implementation - The keygen element is now supported, so you can now generate key pairs from e.g., VeriSign.

Full Keyboard Access - You can now tab to all controls (and optionally links) on a page. There has been much confusion over this feature, since the ability to tab to all controls honors the OS setting.

In order to tab to popup menus, you need to go to your system preferences, select the Keyboard and Mouse panel, and then select the Keyboard tab. At the bottom of the tab is a checkbox next to the words "Turn on full keyboard access." Check that box to enable full keyboard access, and you'll find that you'll now be able to tab to popups all over the operating system (including Safari).

Another complaint I've seen on forums was that you couldn't type letters to have the popup jump directly to a selected item (e.g., typing "U" to jump to "United States"). Again, we obey the OS behavior, which does allow this, but only after you hit the spacebar when the control has the keyboard focus. Multi-letter typing is supported to complete to a specific item. Try it. You'll like it. :)

Improved Downloads - A download halted by the user or stalled due to network troubles can now be resumed in the Download Manager. You'll also find a number of other improvements to downloads, including the ability to select individual downloads to e.g., delete them, the ability to save images to specific locations via the context menu, and the removal of the 4-connection limitation when downloading while browsing.

Printing Improvements - The "huge margin" problem for printing has been fixed, and Safari is also smarter now about scaling the page when it contains long unwrappable lines. In addition, the CSS2 page break properties are now supported (for values of "always") as per the CSS2.1 Paged Media specification. The speed of printing has been improved dramatically, and you can also now disable backgrounds when printing.

International Domain Name Support - Safari 1.2 supports the IDN standard, which allows for non-ASCII characters in host names.

RTL Improvements - Handling of RTL text has been improved for better Hebrew, Arabic and Hindi support.

Accessibility Improvements - The title attribute is now supported as a tooltip, and 1.2 also supports the accesskey attribute for accessing specific objects in the Web page via the keyboard. In addition, minimum font size is now supported and exposed in Safari's preferences.

Mini Form Controls - Safari 1.2 now analyzes the font size specified by a Web page for form controls and swaps in the mini and small versions as needed. Sites like Travelocity will now render properly with mini form controls in place.

XMLHTTPRequestObject - The XMLHttpRequestObject is now supported, which means that those of you subscribed to Orkut can now rate your friends. ;)

CSS2 Table Support - Table support has been improved, with border-spacing now fully supported, empty-cells supported, and border collapsing supported.

DHTML Performance Improvements - Safari 1.2 is light years ahead of 1.1 in terms of DHTML performance. When objects change size or position, Safari 1.2 will only repaint the affected areas (whereas older versions would repaint the entire visible area every time).

hover/active improvements - Safari 1.2 has a faster (and more correct) implementation of :hover and :active, so it will no longer get into "stuck hover" states or mistakenly put multiple overlapping objects into :hover simultaneously.

Generated Content Support - 1.2 supports the positioning and floating of generated content as per the CSS2.1 spec, and many bugs have been fixed in generated content, particularly with first-letter and first-line. First-letter is now fully dynamic, and first-line styles will now be inherited properly into the descendants of the line. Both styles will even work across nested block-level children (something I believe that no other browser can yet do).

Marquee Support - All forms of marquees are supported, and the behavior is designed to match Internet Explorer for windows. The start() and stop() methods are also supported, so that marquee animations can be paused and resumed. Safari supports marquees using a special overflow value in conjunction with the CSS3 draft properties, and so it's easy to disable the animation while still allowing access to the content (all via a user stylesheet).

Small-caps Support - Safari 1.2 supports small-caps variants for fonts. It does not support true variants but instead synthesizes the font using the 70% heuristic employed by other browsers (like Mozilla).

Stability - Many crashes and hangs have been addressed.

Performance - Safari has added smarts when transitioning between pages (e.g., preserving the vertical scrollbar to avoid an extra layout), so that pages load more quickly on fast networks. This is just one example of several performance enhancements we made to speed up browsing since 1.1.

Caching Improvements - Safari's WebCore cache was not honoring expiration time, and this led to stale content remaining in the cache. This issue has been addressed.

HTTPS Speed Improvements - HTTPS pages load more quickly in Safari 1.2, thanks to bug fixes and improvements.

CSS Load Improvements - Safari no longer aggressively fetches images specified in CSS files but instead waits until the image is used in the Web page before loading it. This reduces the load time on sites that use generic cross-site CSS files with lots of rules that might never apply on many pages. (Translation: SprintPCS is fast now.)

apple's safari dev FAQ

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

"Pimp My Safari"

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

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]

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