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    Congratulations Apple!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by lowlymarine, Jun 29, 2008.

  1. lowlymarine

    lowlymarine Notebook Deity

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    So I just got ahold of the latest Safari 4 Developer Preview, and I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to the Apple/Webkit team for rising to the challenge of the Acid3 test and beating basically everyone else to the punch to boot. I'll add that the ability to select Windows Default font smoothing - basically fixing 98% of the blurriness in Safari for Windows 3.x - is also a very welcome change. Get that "tabbed browsing" thing down and we'll talk complete switch from FF (hint: middle-click-to-close, smarter handling of new-window-in-new-tab).

    Here's a screenshot of Safari 4 DP and Microsoft's lovely IE8 developer beta side-by-side in the Acid3 test. Commence rolling on the floor laughing:
     

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    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    LOL! That's hilarious!

    Anyway, I'm happy Apple's picking up the pace with Safari! If they do Safari 4 well, I might switch back (currently on Firefox 3).
     
    Sam, Jun 29, 2008
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    talin Notebook Prophet

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    I have some annoyances with safari, and if it's indeed improved in 4, I'll stick with it for good. :)
     
    talin, Jun 29, 2008
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    I've always used and preferred safari as to firefox, just looks feels much better. Anyways I'm excited about safari 4 even more so now!!

    I only use safari for certain websites for online classes.
     
    jjahshik32, Jun 29, 2008
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