We're a little late with this one, but hey, I have to sleep too. In the middle of last night, Apple released version 5 of its Safari web browser for both Mac OS X and Windows, and it contains some very interesting improvements, including an extensions framework.
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The page is shown fully and you have to click "Reader" in the URL bar, much like RSS; where upon it displays the Reader view. So you have to view all the ads first before you can mask them (Reader displays over a translucent black background so the original page is visible behind).
It only seems to support specific sites (NYT / BBC &c.) unlike Readability which makes a stab at most pages, so it’s not much of a feature.
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If it works on NYT for you, you're having better luck than I am. No matter what article I click, no matter what section, I can't enable reader at all. It remains resolutely grayed out.
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If it works on NYT for you, you're having better luck than I am. No matter what article I click, no matter what section, I can't enable reader at all. It remains resolutely grayed out. "
Works just fine and I'm running it on a Powerbook to test with Leopard 10.5.8.
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I haven't got my hands on it yet (can't restart atm), so I'm wondering how it works. Does it try to guess which div has the content (unlikely since you say it works on specific sites only)? Does it use -webkit-display-this-on-the-reader-thingy or something like that? Does it use the html5 article tag?
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cryptographically signed by Apple.
you don't need to go through Apple's official channels to distribute them.
clearly, if apple sign the extensions themselves it does not matter if you can distribute them yourself or not, they still make the choice and control, apple store style.
Probably need more precisions here
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It might be my computer (Macbook 4,1 from 2008) but the performance doesn't really seem any different. As for the reader, which seemed like an awesome feature, on my system it's been disabled ever since I installed Safari 5. I can't enable it on any web page I've tried visiting, it's been grayed out the entire time. So, what looked like the most awesome feature of Safari 5 to me I can't even turn on. Wonderful.
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Doesn't work for every news site.
Try this (works for me):
1. go to http://news.bbc.co.uk
2. click on a random article
3. wait until it's fully loaded
4. a reader icon should appear in the adress bar (at the position of the RSS icon) afterwards
5. click on it
6. voila
On sites where it works, it's a very nice feature. 
btw: it's only available on Mac OS X 10.5 or newer
Edited 2010-06-08 12:38 UTC
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Ok, that sort of worked. It only worked on one article for me (the one concerning the supposedly kidnapped Iranian scientist). Didn't work on the others though. Certainly would be a nice feature, but the fact that it works so very rarely makes it all but useless. Seriously, what's the point?
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I'm I the only one annoyed that Safari for Windows is 50MB download that is bundled with Quicktime and Bonjour? What total crap. We'll ignore the fact that the UI was almost entirely ripped from Chrome, except for tab placement (Which they tried, and failed miserably at, and fixed it before Safari 4 went final).
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It's a big download with QT. But, on the download page you can choose one of two Windows Safari versions for download - one with Quicktime and one without (saves about 20MB). Bonjour is coming in either one, although you can choose to not have that bothersome app installed during setup.
Regarding Safari ripping off Chrome's UI... Safari was released 5 years before the first beta of Chrome (back in 2003 on Panther) and overall UI design for Safari hasn't changed significantly since then (just tweaks).
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There are supposedly a number of printers that are using ZeroConf/Bonjour, but whether you need to install it or not, that's another matter. Is it part of Windows 7?
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Because they do not see any potential for income in doing so. They do not care.
Also GNUStep is not keeping pace with Apple's APIs and that would make for more work, again with little to be gained by Apple.
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I'm really glad that Click2Flash still works in Safari 5. I thought it might have gotten broken but no.
Personally I hope that as many ads as possible stick with Flash so that I can block them.
Why do I block them? Animation. If they took animation out of their ads I wouldn't block them with anything I can find. Just being honest.
As for the Reader only working on some articles. The articles have to be Long enough for it to be available.
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I am using a Powermac G4, but it runs even faster. So far, it's great, and I can't wait to see what Extensions start getting pulled together.
And a sneak edit: Here is the blog for extensions that are coming out like running water.
http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/
Edited 2010-06-08 20:58 UTC
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I can't believe all you guys do is bitch about UI originality, and the pretty useless Reader feature, when this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/08/safari_history_leak_fix/ seems much more newsworthy.
Edited 2010-06-08 22:00 UTC
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