Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:07 AM
So the new version of Safari is out in beta, not just for Mac but for Windows. This is great news! I mean, now they have TWO code-bases to fix the horrendous bugs on instead of just one!
There's no secret that I'm not a huge fan of Safari. It was buggy as hell when I first used it on my Mac back in November when I got it, and i've been in very happy Firefox bliss ever since. But I applaud Apple for not giving up on Safari, and I'm willing to give it another shot. That shot lasted 5 minutes.
I loaded the beta, and proceeded to start surfing. Odd...clicking hyperlinks don't work...anywhere. Not on Apple, not on MSN, not on Yahoo...I have to type in an address to move around the net?! Luckily, this is some sort of bug...I opened a new tab, closed the original one that opened by default, and links magically worked again. Reopening Safari again didn't cause the same hyperlink issue...weird.
The best test of course is GeeksWithBlogs. IE and Firefox both display GWB properly. But Safari, for whatever reason, puts huge gaps between the menu items along the top...and the individual posts display oddly.
However looking at the individual blogs, the new skins seem to work fine...until you go into the Subtext admin screen.
I don't know why...but for whatever reason, the javascript controls in post body text area never load in Safari...never had.
This is the deal-breaker for me. Maybe its some weird security setting, but I can't be bothered to hunt it down when Safari enables it by default.
So anyway, Safari will not be my default browser anytime soon...but hopefully they get the bugs ironed out...I don't know if they can catch up with Firefox though.
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