I'm generally liking Apple's new
Safari web browser. I think it will actually open up some interesting competition in the "Mac OS X" browser world, at least between Safari and the Mac OS X native Gecko browser,
Chimera. There's already been a lot of talk about Safari, these are just a couple of links and downloads that have stuck out for me:
- Dave Hyatt's Surfin Safari weblog. Dave is the lead developer of WebCore, the rendering side of Safari. He's responding quickly to a lot of criticism and is already noting significant process in newer builds.
- Speaking of newer builds, this slashdot journal details how to get at Apple's open source WebCore frameworks and replace Safari's rendering engine with newer builds.
- Mike Pinkerton responds from a Chimera developer view.
- Safari Enhancer is a tiny utility application that enables some hidden features of the Sarari beta, namely a handly little Debug menu.
I see some people posting huge lists of all of the other things that Safari should do. Stuff that. I say keep it small, lean, simple, usable.
Now, if Apple
really wants to improve my web browsing experience, they'd come up with a way for me to sync my Bookmarks up over iSync/.Mac! I was reading some of the links above this morning before coming in, along with some Zope 3 posts that I just wanted to remember when I came in to work. I was all set to bookmark them, but then realized that I wouldn't have the bookmarks when I came into the office. Urgh. This is happening all too much lately.