You accuse Safari of "serious problems" but all the issues you list are personal preferences that you even admit "most people don't" care about. If these are "serious problems" then what words should we use when discussing Internet Explorer?
To label these "serious problems" is like ordering a bottle of wine at a restaurant and rejecting it as "bad" when it is merely not to your taste. Not a fair thing to do. "Serious problems" would be lack of W3C compliance or being easily succeptable to malware. These are things that Safari is actually very good at. >>> >I avoid Safari because it has a lot of serious problems, >> >> What "serious problems?" Perhaps you have not looked at it recently? Or >> maybe you are reading reviews written by WFBs? Safari is fine. The same >> code base (Web Kit) is also used by Google's Chrome. > >Safari tries to follow KISS, but it leaves too much out, and gets the >rest wrong. At least the Develop menu isn't hidden any more. > >Most people don't tweak their browsers, but I do. Most people don't use >their browsers for FTP, but I do--Safari uses the Finder for FTP instead >of a browser window. Most people don't share bookmarks across several >browsers, but I do--Safari's bookmarks not only don't work in other >browsers, they can't even open as a web page as with other browsers, and >don't list imported bookmarks properly from the top menu. Most people >don't care about sorting the bookmarks, but I do--SeaMonkey is easiest; >Safari requires a third party app; Firefox 3 broke easy sorting from >FF2. I'd like to have "find as you type" in Safari instead of the Find >dialog box, too. Most people don't care what the underlying code is, but >I do. I don't like XML in browsers, especially for bookmarks [or mail], >unless there's an easy way to edit. > >Even those reasons aren't too bad, except for the bookmarks. I just >don't like having to use a two button mouse when my other browsers just >have click-and-hold for contextual menus. That will change when I get a >new iMac, but it's a silly "feature" that's annoying on a daily basis >when I switch from one browser to another. It doesn't make sense to have >click-and-hold contextual menus on the navigation arrows, but not for >links. Very un-Apple-like inconsistencies. Apple's not following their >own HIGs, but those are only "guidelines" not rules. > >I hope that Chrome is easier to use and to tweak. I expect that it will >be, since it's Google, and open source. Google will probably have a kit >with good directions for that, otherwise we can "Google" for the solutions. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
