MacMinute reports that Apple has released Java 1.4.2 for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. According to the release notes, the update provides support for Sun’s Java 1.4.2 APIs, and includes enhancements to drawing performance and stability for both Java applications and Java applets. Java 1.4.2 is available via the Mac OS X Software Update preference pane. Apple on Monday also released Safari 1.2.
Java, Safari Updates for Mac OS X Panther Released
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Safari is a bit faster… making it incredibley fast (not just super fast) and it finally added the last remaing feature that I missed from my old IE days… “save image as” then choose directory. (Before, downloaded images always defaulted to the desktop which was a pain)
Now, I dont know of any feature in Safari that I find myself wanting.
It works with my bank, it works with my wife’s hotmail account, and I have yet to find a site that it is incompatible with… except for a few that utilize Microsoft’s bastardized Java.
(Why is it that Microsoft’s technologies are the only ones that introduce incompatibilities?)
I’m now able to run Yahoo! SiteBuilder even though Yahoo’s page says “Windows only” ..apparently they forgot that Java is a cross-platform language. At least now they include the option to use Metal instead of “Microsoft Windows” for look-and-feel.
(Why is it that Microsoft’s technologies are the only ones that introduce incompatibilities?)
It’s the web site developer who’s introducing the incompatibilities. If all web developers kept in mind that not all people use IE or even Windows and just kept things w3c compliant there’d be no incompatibilities
I really like the save as… feature, it was really annoying having to only download to the desktop and then have to move the file to another directory.
i’ve been asking this everywhere, but have yet to receive an answer, so i’ll try my hand here. does anyone know when or if apple syncs khtml with kde’s? there are some rendering issues that konqueror has had fixed for quite a while, but safari still couldn’t handle (though i haven’t tried this latest update yet).
I think that you can drag and drop the image to the directory that you want to save the image in.
(oops)
I think that you can drag and drop the image to the directory that you want to save the image in.
(sorry)
And if you use PithHelmet like me and find that it doesn’t work any longer after the Safari update, go here for the fix (very easy):
http://versiontracker.com/php/feedback/article.php?story=2004020214…
PithHelmet now works fine.
(Now, I dont know of any feature in Safari that I find myself wanting.)
I know! Number of them: an ability to block window resizing by web page scripts (exists in Mozilla, doesn’t in Safari) , a notification icon about blocked pop-ups (exists in Mozilla, doesn’t in Safari), separators in bookmarks menu (exists in Mozilla, doesn’t in Safari), an option to easily block flash pop-ups (exists in Mozilla with Adblock, doesn’t in Safari), smaller font in bookmarks menu, an ability to create blank bookmark (exists in Mozilla, doesn’t in Safari), …
Thanks for the PithHelmet tip!
One of the biggest new features of Safari 1.2 (when used with the new version of Java) is LiveConnect .. the ability for Javascript to communicate with Java applets was a big omission in previous versions (and in other Mac OS X browsers)
This should improve compatibility with a number of websites which use Java.
I don’t know why this isn’t there, perhaps someone could tell me if it is because of the ‘one-button mouse’ mentality. Why isn’t there a ‘back’ command on the popup menu? I find it hard to believe that people want to ‘view page source’ as often as they may want to go to the previous page.
“I don’t know why this isn’t there, perhaps someone could tell me if it is because of the ‘one-button mouse’ mentality. Why isn’t there a ‘back’ command on the popup menu? I find it hard to believe that people want to ‘view page source’ as often as they may want to go to the previous page.”
Well how many ways do you want to go back? I have found 6 ways in Safari that don’t require a second button.
command-{ is your friend
oops
that should be:
command-[
I usually just press Delete.
Any of you checked out the new OmniWeb 5 beta? Tons of new features.
Why not an ‘all mouse’ right-click -> back option? Is this too much? Often I am cruising the net with no hands on the keyboard…
Hmm. That’s one feature that annoys me about Konqueror. Who needs a back button on the context menu where there is one:
– In the menu
– In the toolbar
– With a hotkey for the keyboard
Apple is one of the few people who do context menus properly, and leaving useless items out of them is one of those things they do right.
you need to type something to click the back button?
besides that, you can map commands to button click s I believe.
Because if you have a large monitor then it is a lot more efficient to right-click back rather than dragging my mouse to the menu or toolbar (essentially the same place), which can be a considerable distance.
I want to be able to sort my bookmarks by right-clicking in the Bookmarks menu and use a “Sort by…” feature. Sort by date. Sort alphabetically. Sort numerically. Etc. I’d also like to be able to right click on any bookmark and drag it where I want it, without having to use “Show All Bookmarks”. Arrrgh!
Safari 1.2 Roqx! And so does Panther! Even on a G3 B&W/350 with 640Mb of RAM!
Luposian
I have not downloaded the new release of Safari yet, but I will soon.
Has any one noticed if the new release of Safari has addresses the printing issue? Safari seems to compress the text vertically on many pages, and makes a 2 page document print as 5 pages. The beta versions of Safari did not have this issue, but it started hapening from version 1.0 on.
Any ideas on correcting this? I save a great number of web pages as PDF, and as of late have had to resort to Mozilla for printing & PDF creation.
“By Rayiner Hashem (IP: —.res.gatech.edu) – Posted on 2004-02-03 02:06:29
Hmm. That’s one feature that annoys me about Konqueror. Who needs a back button on the context menu where there is one:
– In the menu
– In the toolbar
– With a hotkey for the keyboard”
Minimal movement, no having to put the cursor all the way to the top of the screen to click a button when in two clicks, right click left click, I can go back. Super fast, super simple. As soon as someone showed me how to do that I rarely, very rarely, use the buttons. Its just second nature now, right click left click on back. Boom. I’m there. I cannot use Safari for that single reason. Its unbearable to me. No big loss tho, lots of great browsers on OS X.
Has anyone given Java 1.4.2 a go yet in terms of running large pieces of software like Netbeans? I’m just curious to know whether there is a noticable improvement in speed.
Safari still doesn’t handle XML to XHTML translations using XSLT.
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Minimal movement, no having to put the cursor all the way to the top of the screen to click a button when in two clicks, right click left click, I can go back. Super fast, super simple.
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For even less clicking buy a multibutton mouse like the MS Intellimouse Explorer with back and forwards buttons on the side. Safari works with them out of the box – Finder too.
When running Netbeans, there doesn’t seem to be any difference. So don’t get your hopes up, as this release doesn’t really seem to change much, at least in the apps I use and develop.
The one thing I and a few others have been waiting for is for Safari to work with our internet banking site, http://www.citibank.co.uk/uk/ , well it still doesn’t. So we can only hope Explorer continues to be available for the Mac, it would be a bit pathetic to have to keep a windows machine around only for this.
I have an MS IntelliMouse something other with a thumb button, but in OS X I use the thumb button for Expose and have no extra buttons. Safari doesn’t seem to work with as many websites as Gecko based browsers either, and I personally love Camino. The nightly builds are awesome, more stable (for me) then the stable 0.7 release, faster, and more polished. 0.8 will be a solid release.
“we can only hope Explorer continues to be available for the Mac”
Does it work with Mozilla? My bank doesn’t work with Safari, but it does operate fine with Mozilla. Mozilla is better than IE on windows, and it’s *loads* better on Mac OS X.
It does work with Citibank if you enable the debug menu (quite handy anyway, do a search on google if you don’t know how), and then get it to impersonate WIE6. Unfortunately the problem is with the citibank site, not with Safari. See http://www.macslash.org for a story about this.
Sorry, MSIE for mac development was stopped awhile ago, a little after they stopped developing as a seperate product on windows, just part of the OS
Support editing controls like you see in dhtml based wysiwyg html editors? Mozilla and Netscape do, and of course IE for windows does, but Safari support has been lacking because it is based on khtml. Just wondering if they added this functionality on their own…here is a link to check if you happen to be on safari right now:
http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/
Thanks.
I can’t wait to see if this version still freezes on me on phpBB sites…
“I can’t wait to see if this version still freezes on me on phpBB sites…”
It freezes on you on phpBB sites? I use lots of those with Safari and haven’t had a problem. There are many Mac centered sites that use phpBB, seems like they would use something else if Safari couldn’t handle it. Is it just one specific site or all of them?
“Support editing controls like you see in dhtml based wysiwyg html editors? Mozilla and Netscape do, and of course IE for windows does, but Safari support has been lacking because it is based on khtml. Just wondering if they added this functionality on their own…here is a link to check if you happen to be on safari right now”
I’ve never seen that before, so I’m not sure exactly how it’s supposed to work, but it looks and acts the same in the new Safari, OmniWeb beta 5, and the latest Mozilla. Maybe they fized it.
Why need a second mouse button for back? use gestures! Not supported under safari??