According to this CNET article, there may not be another Opera for the Mac.

Why? They claim because Apple is crowding them out with Safari.

Sorry, guys. Your version of Opera for the Macintosh was mediocre at best. With a 2.6 rating on version tracker, this sour milk gripe just makes me even less likely to try their browser.

Kudos to the Omni team for realizing their weaknesses and planning on changing their engine, not whining about Safari.

Just because we have much less software for the Mac doesn’t mean we appreciate companies that complain about someone taking market share away from their less than optimal application.

Safari has no undo for text operations (typing/paste/cut/copy) in form fields, or anywhere for that matter. I hope this is on the list.

After looking at my site with Safari, my web counter was wrong (visually and numerically)

Today I spent some time looking into this and found that the pipes (vertical bars) my ISP was generating for the IMG tag are not valid inside of a URI. A few hours later of dorking around with other scripts, I finally did the simple thing and tried replacing the pipes with ampersands.

Now, the counter is correct! Of course it is off by a few hundred, due to the improper counter, which I cannot change (the count files are kept out of my domain) but alas, the world is good again.

I’ve made the switch to Safari

Why? Surprised me. I hate the Mozilla/Chimera history. I have never understood that, and Safari keeps a very good history, searchable, etc.

Also, now that Chimera supports the ability for a site to not have Chimera cache a password (which I understand why they had to do it, or risk being blocked by banks) I switched.

I still want Tabs, or something like that. Sometimes, multiple windows just suck.

Dear Safariers,

I would like to be able to open a folder from the Bookmarks menu (either pane) into it’s own separate window. I find this useful for arranging lots and lots of bookmarks that are in a very deep hierarchy.

As I surf the jungles of the world, I find myself needing two things my current host is not supplying.

First off, and most importantly, is Keychain passwords. Not just realm passwords, but forms as well. Chimera does this wonderfully and I was told at MacWorld Expo that Apple is considering this as well. I surely hope so, because I doubt I’ll take on a new Safari as long as Chimera is the only browser making my life easier.

Secondly is tabs. I know, some people love them, some people hate them. I sure hope they don’t listen to the drawer based approaches listed on the Chimera mailing list.

I love being able to select one bookmark and suddenly have one window with 6 tabs covering all of my developer pages. click click and I am jumping around much documentation while I code. That makes my life easier!

Safari looks great, I love Dave Hyatt’s blog, open source and Apple commitment. As soon as Safari supports keychain passwords, I’ll probably switch, and anxiously await tabs.

I’ve created an RSS feed for just my Safari notes, in case Dave Hyatt gives a crap.

If you’d like to follow just my Safari notes using any RSS newsreader, simply subscribe to:

http://www.geeksrus.com/safari.rdf

I really like the Safari bookmark manager. I like having seperate bookmarks for my menu, my bookmark bar and then the manager itself.

I like how it pulls in all URLs from my Address book - Finally!

Very nicely done!

(now just add those tabbed bookmarks and form passwords on keychains)

Want to keep a tab on daily Safari development?

Read Dave Hyatt’s blog

I spoke with some people about Safari, Apple’s new web browser. They didn’t like tabs too much, but I told them “It is an option, and a lot of people do like them!”

When mentioning form passwords saved on the keychain, he said “this is in the works now.” Whoot!

They also agreed that it would be nice if forms auto fill showed up, but more powerful than IE’s version, with sets for Home, Work, etc, etc.

Am using Safari 1.0 beta to post this entry. Safari looks nice for a first attempt. Not sure it is always faster than Chimera. Since Safari does not support tabbed browsing, nor does it use the keychain to store form passwords, I’m sticking with Chimera.

Those interested in seeing these features in Safari, please use the bug icon in the upper right corner of the window to submit bug reports, asking for these features! Apple will only add them if we ask.

As far as the new powebooks go, wow. I am drooling. I think I will wait though, as that 17″ looks just too damn big. Did you see how wide it was in a first class seat sitting on Mini Me’s lap? Not coach, but first class.

Also, I have no bags that would hold it. Not even my backpack. So an additional expense.

However, the new keyboard, the new materials (maybe cooler, less fan noise?) and the airport reception may have me spending money I really don’t have. Sigh, heh.