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Safari Beta Updated

Posted by pudge on from the let-us-go-surfing-now dept.

LenE writes "Safari has been updated to Beta 6, and is available via Software Update. New in this version is XML support, more speed, and many bug fixes. The download is 2.4 MB and doesn't require a restart." From the notes: "The Safari Update 2-12-03 improves the compatibility with popular web sites based on Safari user feedback, further improves the performance of loading web pages and Flash content, adds support for XML, increases standards conformance and delivers improved application stability. The update also enables access to web sites that offer self-signed security certificates."

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  1. Tabbed Browsing by Cokelee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not sure if anyone realizes this, but Apple typically does NOT like Multiple Document Interfaces -- essentially what tabbed browsing is. For this reason I do NOT see them adopting tabs, ever. Even if every other KHTML browser has them. I may be wrong, but I believe using tabs would be a design flaw to Apple.

    I'm still reading through their HIG to see if they warn against it.


  2. Re:You forgot to mention tabs, so I will. by Llywelyn · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why on earth would you *need* tabs.

    Most of the world gets along fine without them, myself included (albeit, I transfered to Safari from OmniWeb and never liked them when I had them available when using Mozilla...).

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  3. Re:You forgot to mention tabs, so I will. by trouser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nobody *needs* tabs. But once I got into the habit of using them I found them invaluable and wouldn't want to return to tab free browsing.

    Tabs allow me to group related pages in one window. eg. When I read Slashdot I often open interesting looking linked articles in the background, intending to read them once I'm finished with Slashdot. Sometimes I'd find these windows hours later, minimised or hidden, and wonder why I'd opened them and how I got there. Now they are all tabs in a window whose first tab is Slashdot. This makes the context obvious.

    The same applies to use of search engines. Search for the thing that interests you, open each lead in a new tab in the current window. All search results end up opened in the same window and are therefore linked by context.

    very useful memory aid. I'm not getting any younger.

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  4. Re:tabs good by Cokelee · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The HIG, as I recall, doesn't mention tabs as evil. While Apple may not deploy tabs on the system level, we can look to Excel for tabbed worksheets as a long standing example, and to Airport Admin for a more recent usage. For a more public example, you only need to visit Apple.com

    Safari will have tabs...sooner or later, and Cupertino will not slide into the Pacific as a result.

    Excel was NOT created by Apple, it was created by MICROSOFT.

    The Airport Admin software CANNOT be document-oriented it contains NO documents

    Apple's website is a SINGLE document. Every tab is not a NEW window it is a LINK to another page. Web Design and UI's are not equal.

    Also, I wasn't being a sensationalist. I didn't call tabs evil, and I didn't say Apple's beloved home at Infinite Loop would slide into the Pacific Ocean. I simply said they don't implement MDIs, and ya know what, they don't.

  5. Re:I turned off software update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Also learning about updates from /. gives you the added benifet of finding out about "problems" or compatibility issues *before* you update.

    p.s. Posting this from my QNX box!