Safari’s Recent Advancements
It’s been “Coming Soon” for quite some time now. Well, “soon” is obviously relative if you’re Google. Regardless of the timeframe, Google Docs now works with Safari (kinda). There’s no doubt that this has something to do with Apple’s iPhone. I’m not an iPhone owner so I can’t say for sure, but according to The Internet, it’s true (despite the criticisms that occasionally pop up).
Either way, I say Google deserves a high-five. I’m a big Safari fan and eagerly await the day that I can completely drop the excess baggage and use one browser once and for all. Don’t get me wrong, FireFox is awesome — It just happens to suck on a Mac and I’m not about to go PC over a browser.
In case you have been under a rock for the last month or so, Safari is really making some progress, too. Steve Jobs caused Hell to freeze over once again by releasing the Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows. Although Steve’s vision seems a bit distorted and possibly even evil, Safari still rocks.
WebKit, the framework Safari and Mail uses to render documents, also is undergoing some pretty amazing changes which are available on a nightly basis. The most noteworthy addition being the slick new Web Inspector. Granted it’s now FireBug, but you can still bet you’ll be seeing this pop up all over Mac-based web development applications.
I sure hope the world is watching. Some great stuff is happening.
One Response to Safari’s Recent Advancements
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Daniel Andrews:
On July 4th, 2007 at 8:49 am #
You can already use the ‘old’ inspector used by webkit (will be updated shortly whenever we see a new safari 3 beta) in Coda and other apps. Open up a terminal and type:
defaults write com.panic.Coda WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
and you’ll see an ‘inspect element’ when you right click on the preview. The new inspector in the webkit nightlies blows this one away, but it’s a start.