Safari Review

After a quick run around the block, Safari, the new browser from Apple for 10.2, seems… okay. There’s no tabbed browsing, and there are a few noticable bugs with rendering, not least when viewing Apple.com: some glitch or other causes their navigation bar to disappear.

There is a plus side, though:

1. Snapback - each window has a Snapback page, which defaults to the first page opened in the window and can be set at any time. Clicking on the Snapback icon in the menu bar takes you back to that page. This looks worryingly like a sop to those who have become used to tabbed browsing.
2. Bookmarks - Nothing too fancy, but Bookmarks are displayed and organised in a neat, very iTunesey way.
3. It’s fast. Really fast. Faster than Chimera. Although that might be something of an illusion, as Safari is quick to display what it can, without waiting for slower elements in page to download.

[Update] Some other sites with reviews:

1. Mark Pilgrim - with extensive list of rendering failures and successes.
2. Mena Trott - comparison with Chimera.
3. Ben Hammersly - says it’s shit

Posted at 12am on 08/01/03 by Jack Mottram to the mac, web category.
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