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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