So, what about any plugin architecture for Safari? Anyone have
experience with this?
I also really like the new dev tools built into Safari/WebKit, so
that takes care of at least most of what you get with Firebug.
However, for the other plugins and tools available for Firefox I was
wondering if anyone had any experience with plugin support for
Safari. Not that I'm expecting a huge plugin community for Safari as
there is for Firefox, but who knows what the future may bring.
I am very impressed with the latest builds of WebKit/Safari 4.0. In
my opinion Safari has now surpassed all other browsers. I've run the
benchmarks myself and the latest web standards tests, and Safari is
beating all other browsers I've tested, hands-down. The new
SquirrelFish JavaScript engine is really impressive beating Firefox
3.0 by around 75% (SunSpider benchmark). And Safari's latest builds
are passing the ACID 3 test 100% with a pixel perfect rending
(compared to the reference image). I'm not sure about the "animation
must be smooth" requirement of the test, but that seems very
subjective anyway. What constitutes "smooth" and who's the judge of
that? That being said I was impressed with the results.
And if I remember correctly, I believe that Safari is the only
browser I've tested that actually handles "display: inline-block;"
correctly. I remember having to resort to floats, where it would have
made more sense to use inline-block recently. It looked fine in
Safari, but only in Safari.
Note: before I get a stream of replies to this about Opera, or your
favorite browser, it is not among my tested browsers. I have only
checked these things in Safari 4.0 (Developer Preview)/WebKit,
Firefox 2 and 3, and Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (which should be
banned from the internet due to stupidity).
On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
Thanks John ..... WebKit has come a long way since I last
looked.... nice .... yes, the devtools are nice there ....
And if WebKit is not your default everyday browser, but you want to
use it for WebObjects app development, just change the WOOpenURL
script to:
<snip>
#!/bin/bash
# Open argument with firefox
/usr/bin/open -a WebKit $1
</snip>
Cheers,
Kieran
On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:55 AM, John Huss wrote:
Have you seen the new developer tools in the WebKit nightly
builds? They are at least on par with Firebug or, I daresay, even
better.
http://nightly.webkit.org/
John
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Kieran Kelleher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I like Safari as default for general web-surfing, but I prefer
Firefox for WebObjects development .... I just like the HTML/CSS/
Firebug/Selenium/etc/etc tools/plugins in FireFox for web
development. However WOLips/Eclipse always autoopens in the
default system browser ... well this was bugging me, so here is a
tip if u want to hardcode which browser is auto-opened when you
launch your WebObjects app in Eclipse ......... simply replace
current file (was a soft link on my system) at:
/System/Library/WebObjects/Executables/WOOpenURL
.... with an executable shell script containing the following:
<snip>
#!/bin/bash
# Open argument with firefox
/usr/bin/open -a Firefox $1
</snip>
You can specify any application you want with the -a argument.
(Firefox or Xylescope or Webkit for example)
Regards, Kieran
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