On Feb 24, 1:42 pm, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Safari 4 Public Beta is available today:
>
> <http://www.apple.com/safari/>
>
> It requires 10.5.6 or 10.4.11 and comes in separate versions for
> Leopard & Tiger.
>
> My first impressions are bad. As usual, new eye candy, a fancy "Top
> Spots" page that curves a miniature wallpaper of your most visited
> webpages across a window, but the elimination of the Stop/Reload
> button from the toolbar is crazy. You're stuck watching a spinning
> thingy with no option except closing the tab. It did score 100 on
> Acid3, but initially stalled on several tests so that the progress was
> very uneven and REALLY slow. Upon subsequent tests it loaded almost
> instantly, as if it were using a cache rather than rerunning the test?
> (The cache is set to zero).
I already saw Bruce's comment on the spinning thingy. so I wont go
there.
My first question is what is the real name for that anyways? Though
"spinning thingy" works quite nicely.
I have been fairly pleased with so far. I would like to see the blue
loading bar come back, though keeping the other loading indicators the
same. Past that I like how it is setup by default. but I do think it
would be beneficial to at least have separate address bar/add
bookmarks/stop-reload buttons in addition to the default much like
what is already seen in Mail. Like the Reply/Reply All/Forward
button set for example. Performance according to my experience is
quite nice, I have it running on an intel iMac and a 500Mhz Pismo.
The extras are removed on the Pismo, but the extras are by no means
the defining factor.
And as an extra, I have been able to get much better adoption from
the Winders users in the family from IE. Something which Firefox did
not in its default form. To quote one "Firefox is really not any
different from the Big Blue E so what's the point". windowsSafari 4
drops the previous pseudo Aqua and uses the native UI for the
respective OS. Doesn't effect OS X users but makes windows users happy
(ier).
Top Sites needs a lot more work, there needs to be some better
controls for customization, and there needs to be a better way of
adding sites than pulling up the desired website in a separate window
and dragging the address icon into Top Sites in edit mode. I'd of
NEVER figured that out on my own.
Bucky.
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