Comments on: Safari 4: Rapid! Revolutionary! And Mostly Unnecessary

By: em

em — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:35:58 +0000

I think this article is an unfair criticism of Safari 4. “Mostly unnecessary”? No way.
From what I have experienced so far, Safari 4 represents a quantum leap in performance; and stated by someone else, a browser is where one spends most of one’s time on the computer.

By: Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:12:45 +0000

rb: Lighten up.

By: Dave Perry

Dave Perry — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:39:13 +0000

Though Chrome has the same engine it feels better than Safari. And as long as most websites serves the market-leader browser IE&FF, niche-products like Safari should not only comply with standards but also the proprietary code. As long as some major websites don’t work properly with Safari/Chrome, they are not a serious replacement of FF/IE/Opera.

By: sp4ngle » Blog Archive » Looking at Apple Safari 4, Google Chrome still has it

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:18:18 +0000

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:17:15 +0000

If Safari 4 is rapid and revolutionary, then why is it unnecessary?
None of what you’ve written since you wrote the headline have answered that question satisfactorily in my opinion.

By: rb

rb — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:05:13 +0000

This post is kind of a joke, how can you have such concrete opinion without any quality time spent testing? I think you ought to go and do a good quality review and then come back and report on it. I don’t know why everyone is so interested in “eye candy” and if there is no new “eye candy” nothing has changed. It bugs me to no end when I hear people say well Apple is not adding any new features to Snow Leopard, it is a joke there are so many new features and additions to the OS that it is not even funny. 10.6 is going to be the best version of OS X to date. Who cares if it doesn’t look any different to 10.5, under the hood it is light years ahead. Back to Safari, Safari is kind of in the same boat as there are quite a few changes under the hood and is going to be a much better browsers especially when devs start to take full advantage of the new additions. You reviewers need to provide better reviews and not just personal rushed opinions. Harry you are a great journalist and an excellent person to look at to emulate and I would hope you would hold all your employees up to your quality standards as they are a model for this business.

By: Brock

Brock — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:00:11 +0000

Safari has had the search-includes-page-content since version 3 on the Mac — not sure about Windows. I use this feature on a daily basis.

@Christen: I have had zero problems with WordPress and Safari (except for Google Gears not working with the nightly builds, but that’s pretty much to be expected and not at all a showstopper).

By: David Worthington

David Worthington — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:10:41 +0000

parts of html 5… the entire spec is not finished yet. IE8 has some of it implemented also… chatted with chris wilson about that last year.

By: Christen da Costa

Christen da Costa — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:06:32 +0000

For some reason Safari never supported WordPress…to this day, and from here on out I use Firefox and Tab+Apple in between the two for writing.

By: Josh Powell

Josh Powell — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:16:17 +0000

What I take from this article, is that web developers will be very happy with the new Safari as it provides a lot of things that web developers care about: new javascript engine, html 5, etc, and only a few things that consumers care about: coverflow and Top sites. It’s not that this release is unimportant, it’s that the focus seems to be on the developers.

It is very important for a succesful browser to cater to developers; make it easier to develop on/for and developers will go to it. With developers going to it, more and better aps/web sites will start to use it, which means more consumers will use it. Obviously, that works backwards as well, more consumers does bring more developers.