Safari – a host of neat touches underneath the hood: Part 1

Apart from a few unsubstantiated rumors about the recently “off-beta (ized)” function version of Safari V 3.1, there seems to be more euphoria about a host of snazzy functions Safari claims to have brought to the table. The bugs that have been reported were during the “beta’ time and it is still uncertain whether they have been rectified or not. However, there are reasons under the safari’s hood that might win every sane browser’s heart.

Apple’s Safari V3.1 does throw its weight around given that it is hefty 18.63 MB – almost like a sumo wrestler when compared to the “fire fox”. It has some intuitive properties like handling its own installation and can also use the plugins you’d have downloaded for fire fox obviating the need to have them downloaded all over again. It has to be admitted that the speed is indeed awesome and the page downloads happen like a breeze. Internet Explorer would be a joke compared to the speeds we are talking about here and it also leaves fire fox panting for breath.

Cool features like fluid-flow graphics instead the standard “download in progress” types found on the other browsers is indeed telling. I didn’t understand why the entire page has to dim out while simultaneously leaving the highlighted search keyword highlighted — I would have wanted to read the anchor text with which the keyword tags along. If I am searching for “Business Opportunities” I am not looking for this keyword per se, but everything else that might follow it or precede it. No comments on this search option on Safari, though!

Safari – a host of neat touches underneath the hood: Part 2