Comments on: Safari 4 – initial impressions http://boonyew.com/interaction/2009/02/25/safari-4-initial-impressions/ between man and interface Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:25:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: boon http://boonyew.com/interaction/2009/02/25/safari-4-initial-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-29 boon Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:59:25 +0000 http://boonyew.com/interaction/?p=132#comment-29 Maybe you should give it a try on my laptop sometime. IE is okay, comparable to Safari. Firefox beats them both hands down on Windows. Not sure what you mean about the native theme - it still looks like the old Safari, not much element of a pure-Windows theme around it. Maybe that's why it's not as fast as I want it to be. Maybe you should give it a try on my laptop sometime. IE is okay, comparable to Safari. Firefox beats them both hands down on Windows.

Not sure what you mean about the native theme – it still looks like the old Safari, not much element of a pure-Windows theme around it. Maybe that’s why it’s not as fast as I want it to be.

]]> By: Alphab http://boonyew.com/interaction/2009/02/25/safari-4-initial-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Alphab Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:42:37 +0000 http://boonyew.com/interaction/?p=132#comment-28 I'm assuming you tested the Windows vista version... What do you think about the switch to a native theme (safari 3 win kept the metal look)? On a mac it's FAST. I click the Firefox icon, then the safari one: safari is done loading my homepage before Firefox even show any window. I'm not quite sold on the "tabs on top" thing... Feels weird to have to drag a tab to drag the window. I could easily switch to safari as my main browser, the only thing I need is mouse gestures, got hooked on this a while ago with Opera. Seems sad that Opera has lots of great ideas first (tabs, mouse gesture, "quick dial" start page, ...) but somehow never takes off due to its other interface issues... Safari 4 "borrows" a lot from opera, firefox and chrome, respects the standard while pushing them forward (CSS animation, CSS effects). The browser wars is in full swing, except this time IE is VERY far away. Can't wait for the seemingly inevitable moment where MS will drop Trident and adopt Webkit (safari's engine) as their layout engine. This alone would reduce the times it takes to create web stuff in half. PS. Remember Webkit is used in many other places: Nokias, iPhone, Android etc. Any speed improvement in Webkit result in a hudge speed improvement on the iPhone safari, since precessing power is a much bigger constraint there. Yeah for progress. I’m assuming you tested the Windows vista version… What do you think about the switch to a native theme (safari 3 win kept the metal look)?

On a mac it’s FAST. I click the Firefox icon, then the safari one: safari is done loading my homepage before Firefox even show any window.

I’m not quite sold on the “tabs on top” thing… Feels weird to have to drag a tab to drag the window.

I could easily switch to safari as my main browser, the only thing I need is mouse gestures, got hooked on this a while ago with Opera. Seems sad that Opera has lots of great ideas first (tabs, mouse gesture, “quick dial” start page, …) but somehow never takes off due to its other interface issues…

Safari 4 “borrows” a lot from opera, firefox and chrome, respects the standard while pushing them forward (CSS animation, CSS effects).

The browser wars is in full swing, except this time IE is VERY far away. Can’t wait for the seemingly inevitable moment where MS will drop Trident and adopt Webkit (safari’s engine) as their layout engine. This alone would reduce the times it takes to create web stuff in half.

PS. Remember Webkit is used in many other places: Nokias, iPhone, Android etc.
Any speed improvement in Webkit result in a hudge speed improvement on the iPhone safari, since precessing power is a much bigger constraint there.

Yeah for progress.

]]> By: rey http://boonyew.com/interaction/2009/02/25/safari-4-initial-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-27 rey Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:47:34 +0000 http://boonyew.com/interaction/?p=132#comment-27 I can certainly tell the difference in speed compared to Firefox running on OS X. I can certainly tell the difference in speed compared to Firefox running on OS X.

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