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Safari Beta Leaked, With Tabs
ollie_ob writes "Seems a bit too good to be true: Apple listening to its community and implementing the features most requested? Apparently a build (v62) of Safari has been leaked into the wild, and has tabs -- though not fully implemented yet -- and primitive support for autocomplete in forms. The Think Secret rumor site has the scoop." It is not merely a rumor, I've confirmed it. It works nicely, too, in a brief test. Then I, uh, deleted the copy I looked at.
You mean when I said Safari would have tabs, and tons of people ran me down and others supposedly in the know said 'no way...not ever'...you mean to say that I was right all along?
Imagine that.
So, Galeon, Konqueror, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari, (...!) all have tabbed browsing?
Who's missing? oh! sorry, I remember, they don't care about usability anymore, they have 95% of the market.
"People don't use tabs, look, mommy, 95% of people live without."
Innovation: don't ever use bright ideas from others.
agree...not agree...what do I care...this is /. - not some cubscout meeting with rules. The day this place starts making sense is the day I move on.
./ debate manuals...joke.
You'd have more luck gettin popular agreement here by stapling your opinion to your ass.
Funny thing about my opinion...I never care whether anyone takes it or not. But when the back-chatter comes around as others talking out their little brown holes, it's kind of fun to be able to see them squirm.
Or was i absent the day they handed out
Ok, as for proof...NDAs tend to get in the way, you know? Makes being able to read between the lines more than just a dating skill.
I'm reminded of when some ZDNet columnist wrote a column on OS X DR3 based on Apple's press releases. He got an avalanche of emails saying, "Are you an IDIOT? Have you even SEEN DR3?" which, of course, he hadn't, being that it was a developer-only release. DR3 was warezed so widely, though, that just about every Rhapsody-starved Mac user was running it (myself included).
I guess I'd better reinstall Hotline and start clicking porn banners to get a nick/pass...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
To use a familiar metaphor to explain:
Step 1) Copy and paste my old articles as if they're new
Step 2) ???
Step 3) Karma!
Now why would Microsoft port IE to Mac? What's next, you're going to ask them to port Office, and, uh, uh, wait... damn.
It's hard being a mindless Apple zealot with Apple changing their minds so much. Our job as zealots is to screamingly defend whatever Apple does without thinking or considering what's best for the user or common sense. We defend Apple Corporation's interests over the users' desires at all costs. Our job is to claim tabs suck when they don't have tabs, the G4 1Ghz is as fast as the Pentium4 3.0Ghz, RISC is better than CISC, slower memory and busspeed is a GOOD thing, proprietary software is freer than open source, Safari Beta is more stable than established and mature browsers, paying for .Mac is a privilege, Steve didn't lie when he said "Free Forever .Mac", using the DMCA is justified when Apple does it but not anyone else, etc etc.
Originally, all us zealots had to violently attack everyone who said tabs were a good idea, saying they were crude and unintuitive. Now, we have to do a complete reversal and furiously attack anyone who is against tabs. It just never ends.
The life of a spin doctor is a tough one, but immensely satisfying.
Somewhere in the mists?
Looks like this link is now dead... Anyone have another?
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Using, um, an uplink, um, to a disk server that, um, is in *no way connected to me*, I tried out tabbed Safari.
I almost wept a tear. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen (apart from Oolong. I was atheist. I now see the light.
In Steve I trust.
It also fixed my blog page's CSS troubles. Woo!
First, Hyatt is not a UI programmer. He works on WebCore.
I see. He's a low-level guy without any real browser interface experience. Except for that Chimera stint.
He is a very smart guy, but he doesn't know shit about user interfaces.
Lessee, credibility with regard to browser interface design - the guy who started Chimera, or some random AC? Hmmm, thoughie.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
The day my web browser knows what page I want to go to in the future is the day I quit web browsing.
I know, I know, it's a pyrrhic victory at best, since my web browser will know what day that will be before I do.
very handy. does anyone else think that the tabs which are in the background are really hard to read, though?
Upside down tabs... hmm...
BATS??