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June 25, 2003
WWDC: Safari 1.0
Well, Safari 1.0 is finally out. Once again, Apple have done a really good job with it.
Solid, fast, and more standards compliant than most browsers these days. I really wish more sites would do the right thing and design to standards. But that's another rant for another day.
On a related note, Dave Hyatt, one of the developers of Safari, has turned comments off on his Safari blog. This is mostly because people are just rude and can't figure out that he is not the bug database for Safari.
He does say: "About the best we can do from release to release is demonstrate forward progress, and I think it's clear that we have accomplished this." Yes, there has been tremendous progress, and this is a v1 release. Having said that, there are bugs that were squashed in the previous release that seem to be back. One bug on my bank's pages I've reported using the bug reporting menu item, the rest (all minor) I can't figure out if they are Safari bugs or if the site did something new.
Still, a heartfelt thanks to Dave and the rest of the Safari team. Most of the other bugs are gone, most sites render correctly, and did I mention this thing is fast? One of my favorite things is that "check spelling while typing" is now remembered between launches. AND it recognizes HTML markup and does not mark the whole thing as misspelled any more. Good news for bloggers.
Posted by Samer at June 25, 2003 10:14 PM
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