RasterWeb!People keep saying Safari is the fastest browser on Mac OS X. I’ve heard at least one person say that Apple wants it to be the fastest browser in the world. I believe Opera thinks they have the fastest browser in the world. I’m assuming they are all refering to a ‘web browser’ and in fact, I’d go further and say I’m assuming they mean ‘graphical web browser’ because last time I checked Lynx still smokes ’em all in speed tests…
I know, I’ve talked about tabs enough, right? Wrong… See, my computing experience is all about the tabs.
For browsing, it’s Mozilla, and I suppose if I only used Mac OS X I might be in the Chimera fan club. When it comes to text it’s jEdit which also does the tab thing, and does it quite well. And ever since iTerm came out I’ve come one step closer to tab nerdvana which is the highest state of tabbed interface computing that cam be reached. Sure the Finder isn’t tabbed, well, not yet anyway, but you get my drift.
Luckily jEdit is quite customizable, so picking the keys to switch between tabs was easy. I like the left and right arrow keys, which in Mozilla don’t move you between tabs, but work as the back and forward buttons do. In iTerm, it’s easy to customize the keys used by editing the nib file in Interface Builder and tweaking it. Those nib files and Interface Builder bring back the old ResEdit days for many apps…
So Mozilla, jEdit, and iTerm are my main applications. They’re the first three icons on the dock, and they’re almost always running. You can see why the tabbed thing is kind of important to me.
If I’m elected, I promise tabbed applications for everyone!
There’s a jEdit Headlines Plugin. It allows you to view the content of any RSS, RDF, or XML data feed on the net within jEdit.
jEdit is one of those everything applications, where if there isn’t a plugin that does what you want, you just haven’t waited long enough…
Of course you could always try to invoke the LazyWeb if you get impatient…
After reading various people’s various opinions on what Safari is lacking, I present to you the top ten Safari feature requests:
I must admit, I was a bit surprised by that last one, I thought for sure some mention of Gecko, or Inline SVG, or maybe even Tabbed browsing, but hey, there’s just no pleasing some people…
Apple has died more times than that kid from South Park. Oh, wait, they haven’t died yet, it’s just been reported that they will die real soon now for the past 2 and a half decades…
According to this NewsFactor/OSOpinion’s article:
…the company’s market share has declined in each of the last five years…
If the decline … continues, it is very likely that Linux will take the number two spot in the desktop OS market from Mac by the middle of 2003
Of course! That’s why we see Windows, Linux, and *BSD users so interested in switching to Mac OS X. People freakin’ love Apple. they love Apple more than their relatives and pets. They really love Apple more than Microsoft. These people will continue to support Apple. Steve Jobs knows this, he’s no dummy. If he can’t keep Apple afloat based on that, then he’s not even trying.
Apple wants to boost revenue from software, but right now, every Mac system is very likely to be providing revenue for a Microsoft Office product and Internet browser…
Huh? How much revenue is Microsoft making off of their Internet browser? I mean, they’re sharing all the profits with Spyglass right? As I’ve said before, I’ve own many Macs, and never personally purchased any Microsoft software.