Comments on: iWeb: Jack of All, Master of None?

By: Say Something 'Bout Safari | NSLog();

Say Something 'Bout Safari | NSLog(); — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:27:43 +0000

Now is your chance to say something about Safari with perhaps the best chance to influence its development, UI, and eventual outcome. David Hyatt is soliciting ideas. My own list, off the top of my head:Better cookie managementSomething "better" than...

By: JayAllen - The Daily Journey

JayAllen - The Daily Journey — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:50:10 +0000

Debating the über-browser

Which would you rather use? 20% of features from 10 huge applications that don't work together and have overlapping

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:15:55 +0000

IMHO Safari is an excellent product because it is lean and fast - it boots quickly, it takes up little room in your apps folder and all the interface elements are snappy and responsive. It only does one thing (display webpages with some rudimentary bookmark management), but it does it very well. I would be worried if Safari started to get clever and stray from this philosophy.

By: dive into mark

dive into mark — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:27:58 +0000

Auto-content

Why does this cite-link-quote ("hit-and-run") style of weblogging need to be a manual process at all? Why can't I just click an "auto-content" button and have my software automatically generate a list of, say, a dozen interesting links and quotes cull...

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:04:03 +0000

I'm all for having separate apps that do one thing, and one thing good, but it's often difficult to make them all work together, in a seamless fashion, if at all. Yes, this is something Apple is good at, but I don't want to be completely reliant on Apple for my software.

Lot's of people involved with Mozilla.org want to see the suite separated into different products, and I'm all for it. Look at Chimera and Phoenix, the separation of the browser from everything else. I want this to happen just as much as the next person does, (Still waiting for Mail/News to be a separate app.) but I appreciate the choice of having a whole suite available as well when I need it.

Some of this might be compounded by the fact that I use Mozilla on three platforms, and it's nice to know I won't have to track down an IMAP client for Windows, or an IRC client for Linux, and then deal with three different applications on three different platforms... that I have the ability get all of that in one app can be a good thing.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:35:27 +0000

I have all of those applications too. And an AIM client, and an MP3 player, and Photoshop (and on and on). Just because you need them doesn't mean they should be included in ONE colossal application. Or did you only read one sentence from my entry?

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:31:56 +0000

I happen to like Mozilla. But then again, I need web browser, an IMAP capable mail application (that can use LDAP) a newsreader, and an IRC client, while a lot of people do not.

Mozilla certainly doesn't qualifies as being a 'horrid piece of crap' in my book, but as I said, I might have a different book than most people do.