Hello Safari!
Just now, Apple has released yet another Beta for their Safari web browser for the PC. This update resolves security issues and, from what I've seen, stability improvements. For example, I can now write in a textbox, where previous version (the first and the updated first) does not even allow me to write a single character in any textbox.
Safari has more quirks though, shortcuts and things you usually be able to do in IE or FF suddenly gone. Notable ones are:
- MCE formatting doesn't work (had to edit the hyperlinks using HTML mode).
- Ctrl+Enter to automagically prepend "http://www." and append ".com" to the address bar doesn't work.
- One click on the address bar doesn't select all text automatically (needs triple-click to do that).
- Silverlight plugin crashes Safari (both in Beta, can't have anyone blamed, yet)
- Rendering speed... just the same. Can't feel the difference (using Indosat M2 3.5G service if you're wondering) between this and IE7.
- Middle clicking on the tabs doesn't close them (I assume Apple fanboys are too dumb to use any more than one button in their mouse).
Apart from it's quirks, Safari still a good browser though... Nice text renderings (yes, they're different than Windows ClearType) and support a lot of CSS+JavaScript common in Web 2.0 world. Tested www.wikimu.com and www.trendigital.com and both looks perfect.
UPDATE: Well, apparently after long writings, Safari cannot use MCE at all. I'm writing this back on IE... Down with Safari! :D