Comments on: Safari Gets Tabs

By: raoli.com

raoli.com — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 04:31:17 +0000

Skinning Safari

In an otherwise slow news day (apparently, Apple has an MPEG-4 Video Gallery and it’s cool), Chris points out another Safari mockup for dealing with multiple web pages in a single window. Looking at all the available pictures, I just...

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:40:50 +0000

It's very real, and it's very bad. It was so bad my dog puked this morning (relieving me, by proxy, of my obligation).

By: colin_zr

colin_zr — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:15:30 +0000

Regarding the ~/Library directory: A few months ago I was writing some code for a cross-platform Perl app so that it would store preferences in the correct place for each platform. I use Linux myself, so I know what to do there. But finding documentation that would tell me the correct place to put the prefs files on OS X was very difficult, and there was some discussion about what we should do. We came to a decision, but I don't think we had any authoritative source telling us what to do.

If it's any consolation, Windows was even worse.

By: synapse

synapse — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:48:45 +0000

Safari tabs, Opera crap

PerversionTracker makes an excellent case against Opera, while tabbed browsing rumours emanating from ThinkSecret smell kind of fishy.

By: Raena

Raena — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:01:37 +0000

That and the other screenshots look kind of dodgy. Check out the awfully convenient placement of the tabbed Browsing option in their Debug menu shot.

By: snowman

snowman — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:12:42 +0000

I think you can download it [Ed: link removed. You can find it on /. today though].

By: ckelly.net

ckelly.net — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 05:19:45 +0000

Tabs in Safari

Looks like the next version of Safari, Apple's web browser, is going to feature tabbed browsing, much like versions of

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:19:11 +0000

Yeah, they do, and that's part of the reason tabs are a terrible thing to use here: because they have to change the content above (the URL) and below (the web page itself) when you switch between tabs.

L-A-M-E

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:10:01 +0000

Tangent from what everyone else has been saying.

Do the tabs seem upside down to anyone else? I look at the screenshot and I wonder what clicking another tab is going to change the address bar into.

--Nick

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:29:45 +0000

Funny you should mention that stevos - because I am using an aqua theme that actually does go through and standardize the inset buttons, itunes controls, etc. I think it speaks volumes that I have to hack my interface to make the controls more "aqua" like.