Safari Beta 3

Apple released a new version of Safari today at the Developer Convemtion, well sort of, it's really a public beta release, so it's not an official version yet. If you downloaded it and kept using it as you had previously you'd almost think it was the same. And for the most part it is. Actually, one of the most exciting things about this release is not a new feature at all but a version that can run on Windows XP/Vista. Why is this exciting for a Mac user? Well for a few reasons I can think of.

• Windows users can once again finally see their websites look awesome. Every-time I look at aliased fonts in IE & FF on Windows, my body shudders, I can't explain it.
• Web Developers can more accurately develop on a single platform for all browsers (even though that platform is Windows)
• With Safari on Windows, we should see more website supported in Safari rather than 'Coming Soon' or your browser is unsupported messages.
• This should once again push MS to have better CSS support. Some of the coolest CSS features work awesome in Safari, lets start seeing in all browsers already.
• A larger Safari base (which in turn shrinks the IE user base). What's better than seeing Windows users love Apple software?

While these are just great reasons for Safari on Windows, there are actual feature in this new version of Safari. Simple but cool and interesting.

Resizable Textarea form elements

Just click and drag the lower right corner 'grabbers' and stretch. Kind of cool, there are so many times I've wished I could do something like this. Only drawback is it can break your layout, and since this is proprietary to Safari, will you have to use proprietary markup to control it? Hope they don't go there.

Awesome Find Feature

Who'd-a-thunk the Find feature would be so cool? I love it. Try it out now!


Default RSS reader. I'm not totally sure if this is new, but in the preferences window, you can choose a reader for RSS feeds to load into.

If you use 1PassWord, it will not work in Safari 3, which I am sure the developer knows by now, an error lets you know that it's not going to load. Also this version of Safari breaks MailPlane, but there is a workaround for now which to enable Rich-Text Editing in the advanced preferences.

So have you found anything else new? Let me know.

Tags: browser, Internet, software