On Sep 8, 2007, at 4:39 AM, su0091 wrote:
10 features, that you don't find in other browsers
The only things about iCab I didn't like (and this goes back to whatever version was current in Oct-ish of 2006, so these may have been addressed), were:
1- it seemed to hold off displaying the page until everything for the page was loaded. This meant it took MUCH longer to display web pages that were hosted off slow servers and contained large graphics (something I commonly ran into when viewing friend's personal pages they were running out of their house). This also prevented me from loading realtime logs from various servers, as the logging front ends on some of them never closed the stream, rather they would just keep feeding the data as new data came in. So iCab would just sit waiting for the stream to close (which was never going to happen), and not bother showing the portion of the log it already had. Granted this is poor design on the server's web reporting system to keep the stream open the whole time, but it isn't an overly uncommon approach, and iCab just wasn't able to deal with it.
2- JavaScript loops would cause the browser to hang until it decided script was in a loop and offered to kill said loop. Alas, the shortest time this would take was 60 seconds. I ran into this daily as several of the news sites I read every morning had these offending scripts in them. That meant the page would load, I'd read the first part of the news story, and then have to sit and wait until iCab offered to kill the loop. I'd tell it to kill it, then I could click to proceed to the next page of the story, and repeat. This made it annoying and overly time consuming to read thru news stories.
3- There were some CSS problems that would cause pages not to display properly. Images would overlap text, or similar goofy things. Although I suspect by now, at least this one has been addressed (over the time I used iCab, this was a major problem that kept moving to less and less of an issue, so clearly the developers knew and were fixing as they found offending bits of code... so I'd expect that another year later, the problem may be almost 100% gone).
I still have a copy of iCab on my Mac, but I only use it to proof web pages these days as I find it very convenient and I know that once I get that green smiley, the page should display properly in any browser out there. The rest of the time, I stick with Safari. Once in a blue moon I'll load a page in either Firefox or iCab. I do use Firefox any time I am printing postage and shipping labels from the USPS's web site, as for some reason the final popup for the actual label to be printed doesn't pop in Safari. Works fine in Firefox so I just use it. I should probably try iCab next time to see if it works there as well.
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