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So, like many of you I have been playing around with Safari since Tuesday at around 11:00 am. Overall, I am impressed, it has a lot of promise, but there are some things I'd like to see implemented that I think would make it a much better experience. After you are dont reading my (somewhat lengthy) list, give me some feedback, or your own list. I am interested to know what you guys think of it so far and what might make it better.
So here is the list, in no particular order.
1: On UBB Forums (and i assume other forums as well) when you add a smiley or press the button for a URL or something along those lines, the cursor jumps from the place you were last typing to the very top of the text box. This is annoying to say the least.
2: When scrolling with the arrow keys on the keyboard, can the cursor disappear please? Small thing I know, but it helps a lot if you are scrolling a page where the text width is variable. This would be a major boon for laptop users.
3: Tabs. I have talked about something different before, but all the suggested alternatives that I have seen suggested have only served to make me think that tabs are the best solution to reducing window clutter. To improve on existing implementations of tabs, it'd be nice to re-arrange them as well as save a few tabs into one bookmark. The other alternative is a sidebar that shows little previews of the other pages (think of Preview.app for Jaguar, if you don't know what I am talking about, open a few photos all at the same time) which might work, but I can see it getting a little chunky for users of older machines.
4: Ability to identify as a different browser. Useful for some of the more proprietary sites out there. (Hotmail, Blogger Pro)
5: Get rid of the word "Google" in the search bar (and the "Go to this address" in the address bar) , it can be confusing to some people. It doesn't bother me so much, but a lot of people could tend to be confused by it.
6: When clicking on a link that is coded to open in a new window, it doesn't always go to the address automatically, I have had to select the address and hit return (or the go button) to make it load the page. Kind of annoying.
7: Can we please customize the toolbar? To be really different, let us put the buttons anywhere we please. It might be more productive to have the toolbars at the bottom, or on the left or right side. I already keep the dick to the left side, so the toobars (or even just the bookmarks bar) on the left side. Probably not, but at least some basic customization would be nice.
8: Dock integration. A lot of Apps do this quite nicely, but not many Apple apps do. All you get right now if you click and hold on the dock icon (or cntrl click) is a list of open windows. If i do the same on the Chimera icon, I get a menu that lets me select any of the bookmarks in my links bar (bookmarks bar in Safari). As another example, in iChat if you click & hold on the dock icon all you get is Show in finder and quit, not even a window listing. In MSN Messenger, you get all kind of options regarding sending messages and files to any online users. Just a thought.
9: A password manager that can access my usernames/passwords stored in my keychain for forums, webmail and etc. Seriously, this is an Apple technology we're talking about here, you'd think they'd implement it in their own app. Then again, this is only a beta, but hopefully it will be coming.
For the moment, I can't think of anything else. Your thoughts?
--PB
So here is the list, in no particular order.
1: On UBB Forums (and i assume other forums as well) when you add a smiley or press the button for a URL or something along those lines, the cursor jumps from the place you were last typing to the very top of the text box. This is annoying to say the least.
2: When scrolling with the arrow keys on the keyboard, can the cursor disappear please? Small thing I know, but it helps a lot if you are scrolling a page where the text width is variable. This would be a major boon for laptop users.
3: Tabs. I have talked about something different before, but all the suggested alternatives that I have seen suggested have only served to make me think that tabs are the best solution to reducing window clutter. To improve on existing implementations of tabs, it'd be nice to re-arrange them as well as save a few tabs into one bookmark. The other alternative is a sidebar that shows little previews of the other pages (think of Preview.app for Jaguar, if you don't know what I am talking about, open a few photos all at the same time) which might work, but I can see it getting a little chunky for users of older machines.
4: Ability to identify as a different browser. Useful for some of the more proprietary sites out there. (Hotmail, Blogger Pro)
5: Get rid of the word "Google" in the search bar (and the "Go to this address" in the address bar) , it can be confusing to some people. It doesn't bother me so much, but a lot of people could tend to be confused by it.
6: When clicking on a link that is coded to open in a new window, it doesn't always go to the address automatically, I have had to select the address and hit return (or the go button) to make it load the page. Kind of annoying.
7: Can we please customize the toolbar? To be really different, let us put the buttons anywhere we please. It might be more productive to have the toolbars at the bottom, or on the left or right side. I already keep the dick to the left side, so the toobars (or even just the bookmarks bar) on the left side. Probably not, but at least some basic customization would be nice.
8: Dock integration. A lot of Apps do this quite nicely, but not many Apple apps do. All you get right now if you click and hold on the dock icon (or cntrl click) is a list of open windows. If i do the same on the Chimera icon, I get a menu that lets me select any of the bookmarks in my links bar (bookmarks bar in Safari). As another example, in iChat if you click & hold on the dock icon all you get is Show in finder and quit, not even a window listing. In MSN Messenger, you get all kind of options regarding sending messages and files to any online users. Just a thought.
9: A password manager that can access my usernames/passwords stored in my keychain for forums, webmail and etc. Seriously, this is an Apple technology we're talking about here, you'd think they'd implement it in their own app. Then again, this is only a beta, but hopefully it will be coming.
For the moment, I can't think of anything else. Your thoughts?
--PB