↓ what's new deflexions & reflexions labeled REVIEW

 
Newest REVIEW Bookmarks

 

 

 
Newest Twitters

     

    Newest REVIEW Blog Items

     
    Safari 3 Pros and Cons

    I'm continuing to dance with lots of web browsers and for the past couple weeks I've had Safari 3 set as my primary browser. Here's what I like about Safari 3.

    Pros
    • stretchable form fields - this is great for editing the del.icio.us Notes field, the Blogger "Edit Html" field (but unfortunately not the Blogger WYSIWYG "Compose" field), and lots of other form fields
    • nice built-in PDF viewer (which I've now set as the default PDF viewer on my system) 
    • built-in RSS reader
    • cross platform -- iPhone, Mac OS X, and MS Windows (but not Linux)
    • can email a web page via File> Mail Contents of This Page
    • can turn off Flash by unchecking Safari> Preferences> Security> Web Content> Enable plug-ins
    • can activate the Debug menu
    • based on WebKit, which is FLOSS (LGPL and BSD licenses)
    • blog (for WebKit)
    • wiki (for WebKit)
    • discussion groups

    And here's what I don't like.

    Cons
    • can't change the built-in search engine from Google
    • can't remove the Google search field from the Toolbar because it is connected to the Address field, which I need
    • can't right-click on an image and choose "View Image" or "Block Images from This Server" or "Properties", all of which I use all the time in SeaMonkey
    • can't easily toggle Flash on and off
    • can't turn off animated gifs
    • can't tell if I've already subscribed to a feed by looking at the address field's blue RSS icon (because it looks the same whether I'm subscribed or unsubscribed)
    • can't initiate a page search with / (forward slash) but instead must use Cmd+F
    • the keyboard shortcuts for cycling through tabs suck because they are 3 keystrokes, Cmd+Shift+] and Cmd+Shift+[
    • no favicons in tabs
    • can't set it up to automatically delete cookies on exit
    • no blog or wiki specifically about Safari
    • can't participate in Safari discussion groups via email, NNTP, or other standard messaging protocol
    For now the Cons outweigh the Pros and I'm no longer using Safari as my default browser. I am, however, going to continue to use it for writing blog posts because I love being able to stretch the Blogger "Edit HTML" field to the size of the browser window -- that was the main thing I liked about using Performancing (aka ScribeFire) for blogging.

    If you have any thoughts or tips about Safari 3, please post a comment.

    See Also: Wikipedia.org: Safari (web browser)

    Libellés : , ,


    posted by Nancy 17 juillet 2007   |   permalink   |   comments (4)   |

     

     

     

    Each item © Nancy McGough
    Each comment © the author of the comment
    Deflexion.com web site hosted by DreamHost.com
    deflexions powered by del.icio.us · reflexions powered by Twitter & Blogger
    ← More deflexions & reflexions, & feeds available via the sidebar top & bottom ―