Pages Tagged “Safari”
Reviews
- Consent-O-Matic ★★★★★ Convenient browser extension that detects cookie consent pop-ups and automatically fills them out according to your choices. Lets you know it’s working without getting in your way.
- Wayback Machine Browser Extension ★★★★☆ Useful for when you want to make sure the pages you’re reading will still be around in some form in the future, and to easily get at additional context. Checks every page you view against the Wayback Machine, so turn it off when you’re not using it.
Tech Tips
- Simple Browser Categorization (Obsolete) Sometimes you want to know exactly what software people (or bots) are using to view your website. Sometimes all you want to know is which rendering engine’s quirks you need to cater to.
- Why is NginX serving different localhost sites to Chromium vs. Safari or Firefox? If you have NginX listen to IPV6 in one localhost server {} block, listen to it in all of them!
Blog Posts
- Webkit display:table-cell Problem
Bug: I wanted to retrofit an old table layout with CSS to help out iPhone & Android users, but WebKit only applies block style to some table elements.
- Apple Updates Software Update, Addresses Criticism
In conjunction with the Safari 3.1.1 security release, Apple has also released a new version of Apple Software Update for Windows. With version 2.1, they’ve taken the opportunity to fix one of the problems that caused so much criticism last month. It now shows two lists: one for updates, and one for new software. This […]
- Apple Software Update: a Simple Solution
I appreciate the fact that Apple provides a single updater for all their Windows software. It’s nice to consolidate things a bit with the profusion of updaters for what seems like each and every application (sort of like how every mobile device seems to need its own charger). But it has its flaws. I’ve mentioned […]
- Acid(2) Stare
After looking at how Safari 3.1 handles the Acid2 test, and finding that under some circumstances/platforms it fails the test, I realized: that one line, with the eyes, has been the cause of most regressions in browsers that previously passed the test. Rows 4-5 test fallback behavior for objects. The idea is that if a […]
- Safari 3.1 – Quick Thoughts
Grabbed the new Safari 3.1 this morning, both at work (WinXP) and on the laptop at home (Leopard). Noticed that the website no longer says “Beta” for the Windows version. Oddly enough, there doesn’t seem to be much chatter from the browser community about it, at least not on sites I follow from work. There […]
- Safari Blend Coffee
In honor of the release of Safari 3, here’s a little something we found at Trader Joe’s. The mug is from the short-lived Mozilla Coffee. It seemed appropriate. Now if I can just track down some Opera Coffee, or Explorer Coffee…
- Safari on Windows: What effect will it have on Opera?
Following up on my previous post, Apple just dropped a bombshell: the Safari web browser is now available for Windows. I’ve posted some general reactions at K-Squared Ramblings as to how it will benefit web developers and users overall. The most obvious is that Windows-only web designers will no longer have an excuse for not […]
- Safari on Windows
Wow. I have to admit I was not expecting this at all, but Apple has just announced they’re releasing the Safari web browser for Windows. Increased consumer choice, of course, is a good thing. The most immediate benefit, though, is that Windows-based web developers (the majority) who haven’t been willing to buy a Mac to […]
- Power of Suggestion
Surfinâ Safari posted an interesting remark that highlights the power of suggestion. There’s a tip floating around to speed up the Safari web browser by changing a hidden setting, “page load delay.” There are testimonials by people who are really impressed with how much faster Safari is after making this change. Only one problem: The […]
- IE/Mac: The Final Nail
The WaSP is reporting that Microsoft will end support and cease distributing Internet Explorer for the Macintosh at the end of January. It’s been about eight months since the latest version of Mac OS X shipped without IE, and almost three years since Apple launched Safari. While there is an “end of an era” feeling […]
- Acid2 Timeline
April 13, 2005: Acid2 test announced by WaSP. April 27, 2005: Internal builds of Safari pass it. May 22, 2005: Public beta of iCab passes (but no one else notices for a week). June 5, 2005: Development builds of Konqueror pass. October 31, 2005: Safari 2.0.2 becomes the first non-beta web browser to pass the […]
- iCab beats Acid2?
On Sunday, a development version of Konqueror passed the Acid2 test. In the comments, someone posted a screenshot of iCab also passing the Acid2 test. I did a double-take. iCab? Das Internet-Taxi für den Mac? The browser with the nice “Make iCab smile” campaign to encourage non-broken HTML on websites but CSS capabilities that have […]
- No Free Lunch
Some potentially nasty browser security vulnerabilities found this weekend in Mozilla and in Safari. Both involve software update mechanisms. The Firefox one tricks the browser into thinking it’s installing from a trusted update site (the maintainers of updates.mozilla.org and addons.mozilla.org—the only trusted sites by default—have made some changes on their server to prevent the exploit […]
- Acid2: And the Winner is…
Dave Hyatt has succeeded in making Safari pass the Acid2 test. (And on the eve of Mac OS X Tiger’s release, too!) No word on when the fixed version will make it into users’ hands (probably with the first update to Tiger), but he’s posted all the patches for KHTML, so the Konqueror team can […]
- Trust the MIME
Great example of why a browser shouldn’t second-guess file types. In this case, it’s Safari looking at a text document that mentions XHTML in line 1.
- Web Browser Renaissance
The new beta of OmniWeb uses Apple’s WebCore, the Konqueror-based code used to display pages in Safari. What makes this so interesting is that OmniWeb was the first web browser designed to really work with OS X. IIRC MS really didn’t do much to IE except add the compatibility code and change the icons. A […]