First thoughts on the new Safari
When I got onto this computer at London’s Apple store, I noticed a blog entry apparently written by someone apparently using this very computer. Yesterday I was one of the people who queued halfway round the block to get in to get a first glimpse of their new operating system, OS X 10.4, or Tiger. On arrival, someone handed me a scratch-card and a box containing the new OS. I asked, “is this mine?” and he informed me that no, I’d have to pay for it. I wasn’t up for buying anything (I’m broke). I wanted to see if it really was noticeably faster than Panther, and what was improved about Safari. And he’s right, this keyboard is not very good.
Well, you’ll all be glad to know that Safari’s got plenty of competition, because all of its main bugs remain unfixed! The editing buttons all WordPress users use … are still missing. You still can’t delete your junk mail in Hotmail. When displaying WordPress blogs, it still does not notice whether you are logged in or not - it gives you the logged-out page either way (which means you can’t submit comments as an author or user). And the problem I noticed on one of my friends’ blogs, by which its individual entry pages keep reloading, is still there.
Oh, but it’s got an integrated RSS viewer, so that’s such a huge improvement. Does anyone out there use RSS that much to view blogs? I’m sure it’s useful for syndication purposes so that links to recent stories can be easily displayed on other websites. But as good as some RSS readers are, I’ve never got much use out of them.
(As for the rest of Tiger, there is a very positive and comprehensive review here at Ars Technica. But as MacUser pointed out, the cost of Tiger could get you 512 megabytes of memory - which would also give your system a considerable performance boost.)
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