Safari 4 beta: the first three steps
Step 1: Watch the cool animation that welcomes you to Safari 4, and allow yourself to be transported to its most impressive new feature — Top Sites. This gallery of favourite or most-visited sites (you choose) takes awhile to load the first time, but after that it appears almost instantly in all its eye-popping glory. Is Top Sites useful? Hard to say. It’s a good way of getting previews, but other than that . . .
Step 2: Click on the bookmarks icon and marvel at the Clover Flow implementation. Yes, it works just like in iTunes and the Finder. As you visit various sites, Safari adds previews and you can flip through them for previews. Again you might wonder why you need previews and be tempted to see this is little more than eye candy. But, hey, whoever said there was anything wrong with eye candy?
Step 3: Start browsing! Check out some of your favourite sites and see how they do. Look at where your tabs are — they’re way up on the top and it’ll take some getting used to. Also, Apple is once again claiming that Safari is the fastest browser around. I have to say it does seem snappier than Safari. But I’ve found that only time — say a few weeks — can truly judge the speed of a browser. After all, they all seem faster at first.
There is no Step 4, but if there were, it would be go nuts and have fun.
(Oh, and one more thing: Agile, please update 1Password to work with Safari 4. I fear I may be lost without it . . .)
Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 in Web-browsers
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