daringfireball.net - 3/4/2009
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Performance
The Safari 4 public beta is faster than Safari 3 and every other browser available for the Mac. ( CNet’s Crave backs up Apple’s claim that Safari 4 is the fastest browser available for Windows as well.) One thing to keep in mind — and I’ll return to this ...
macworld.com - 2/26/2009
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macworld.com —
The address bar, toolbar buttons, search field, and
bookmarks bar now appear within each tab, rather than...
at the top of the Safari window. This makes logical sense, since the functions these items perform are specific to the currently-visible tab, ...
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Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad? | E-mail and Internet | ...
9to5mac.com - 3/6/2009
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9to5mac.com —
World of Apple is publishing (naughty, naughty) Apple's
Snow Leopard release notes, below, which include a new...
Quicktime Player UI, a new Cocoa Desktop, Info Window and Contextual Menus and of course the new Safari 4 Web Browser. All good news, ...
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Snow Leopard goes 64 Bit, to be released on June 8th ...
swoon.net - 3/5/2009
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swoon.net —
Duck It looks like a duck. It quacks
like a duck. It must be one. But where's...
the coffee? A port of Bob Nystrom's classic Duck to the iPhone and iPod touch. download brent kirkwood - photoblog A Mac OS X Dashboard widget that displays the 10 most ...
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swoon dot net - software
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Daring Fireball’s Gruber on Safari 4 Public Beta: State-of-the-art-performance, but Tabs need work
MacDailyNews —
... deserves nothing but accolades; but Safari 4? Well, we have some issues," Gruber writes. "Even more so than the new style of tabs, Safari’s new progress indicator is the change I’m having the most trouble adjusting to... The new progress spinner doesn’t make Safari slower, but it does make it feel slower... Please scrap it." Gruber writes, "The problems with [Safari 4 Public Beta's] new tab layout are significant..." Much, much more in the full article - highly recommended - here . MacDailyNews Take: We've already been through this, but for those who might have missed it: ...
5Words for March 5th, 2009
Technologizer —
... I’m reading this morning:
Twitter-like makeover for Facebook.
Ballmer: Windows Mobile needs work.
Amazon’s selling used video games.
Pogue slams Samsung’s Memoir phone.
Facebook spurns poor Ms. Batman.
Fab Four meets Rock Band.
Spy shots of new BlackBerry.
Windows 7’s revamped UAC: useless?
Vista SP2 available for download.
Interesting, nitpicky Safari 4 review.
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Gruber on Safari 4: Whoa
CrunchGear —
... The Internet’s John Gruber posted a long, long piece about Safari 4, noting that the missing progress bar is a huge mistake and that top-tabs are not new and are quite unique and problematic. He notes, ...
Hey Apple, Don’t Be So Quick to Ditch Safari’s Tabs On Top [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... then Apple has a problem.
The MacObserver:
Next, because the tabs are placed on the top of the window, the user is now at a loss on where to drag the main window. Safari 4 fails.
Walt Mossberg:
Apple’s worst decision was to move the tabs that represent open pages to the very top edge of the browser screen, above all the toolbars and menus,
And Daring Fireball:
But the problems with this new tab layout are ...
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Safari challenges Chrome on Web app speed
news.cnet.com 2/25/2009 —
Google's latest version of Chrome has claimed the lead in my JavaScript speed tests, but Apple's new Safari 4 beta is the first browser to challenge it on Google's own performance benchmark.
JavaScript is a programming language that powers not ...
Apple Releases Beta of Safari 4 —
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us
It's been over a year since Apple introduced a major update to the Safari Web browser. Today, the company released a public beta of Safari 4, bringing a host of new features, interface enhancements, and performance boosts.
The major changes include a new Top Sites feature that enables users ...
Apple releases Safari 4 beta —
Boy Genius Report
Apple has finally released its much anticipated Safari update this morning along with a host of performance upgrades and feature additions. Tagged Safari 4 beta, the new version is available as a download from the Apple site only for the time being and will not update automatically via the ...
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