Safari 3 -- Mac and Windows -- Awesome Feature!

DavidTO

Safari 3 now allows you to resize text entry boxes. This works when posting on Dgrin, in your Customize page on SmugMug, just about anywhere that allows you to enter text, just drag the resize handle in the lower right of the box, like this:

patch29

How awesome is that.


The small text windows have always been a pain to use.

schmoo

Now I have to use Safari???

DavidTO

schmoo wrote:

Now I have to use Safari???

Yes. Report back upon completion.







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wxwax

patch29 wrote:

How awesome is that.


The small text windows have always been a pain to use.

Blabbermouth.

wxwax

I refuse to use Safari.

I absolutely hate the huge blocks of preview text that appear on forums like this one, when your cursor touches a thread title.

I can't seem to turn it off. Firefox doesn't do this. And yes, Patch, I have JavaScript and Java enabled.

DavidTO

wxwax wrote:

I refuse to use Safari.

I absolutely hate the huge blocks of preview text that appear on forums like this one, when your cursor touches a thread title.

I can't seem to turn it off. Firefox doesn't do this. And yes, Patch, I have JavaScript and Java enabled.

I love that. But, a switch to turn it off makes a lot of sense. Send them feedback!

Allen

Problem, works on XP and Vista not win2000.:cry

Andy

Allen wrote:

Problem, works on XP and Vista not win2000.:cry

it's a problem that it won't work on an 8 year old OS?

PS: it works great for SmugMug input boxes, too, like keywords and comments

pathfinder

I agree with Dave, the ability to enlarge the input text box is SUPER!!

I have always composed large posts in a text editor and then pasted them into the box, but I have also always hated doing it that way.

The enlargeable text box thingy is more better!!

DavidTO

I just wish I could get Dgrin WYSIWYG editing to work in Safari!

thebigsky

wxwax wrote:

I absolutely hate the huge blocks of preview text that appear on forums like this one, when your cursor touches a thread title.

Me too! I thought I was the only one, it's so messy, I just want to shake it off, in fact I go to great length trying to avoid it.

Charlie

DavidTO

thebigsky wrote:

Me too! I thought I was the only one, it's so messy, I just want to shake it off, in fact I go to great length trying to avoid it.

Charlie

Time saver!

devbobo

I guess safari had to do something cool to make people want to use it

DavidTO

Sid, Charlie:

Disable Safari URL Tooltips.

thebigsky

DavidTO wrote:

Time saver!

I can't argue, but then I do have a phobia for sticky labels in real life, not sure I should admit to that but it's nice to be different.

If you want to get rid of me, which isn't uncommon, just stick a label on your clothes or skin and I'll either vomit or run away.

Weirdo, moi, oui!

Charlie

wxwax

DavidTO wrote:

Sid, Charlie:

Disable Safari URL Tooltips.

Cool. I'm a bit scared of messing around in Terminal.

Maybe I won't have to?

Note that the Safari 3 public beta seems to ship with tooltips disabled by default.

wxwax

thebigsky wrote:

I can't argue, but then I do have a phobia for sticky labels in real life, not sure I should admit to that but it's nice to be different.

If you want to get rid of me, which isn't uncommon, just stick a label on your clothes or skin and I'll either vomit or run away.

Weirdo, moi, oui!

Charlie

Good one!

DavidTO

wxwax wrote:

Cool. I'm a bit scared of messing around in Terminal.

Maybe I won't have to?

Actually, I tried it, and it removes the URL as advertised, but not the preview of the linked post.

I'm running the final Safari 3 and they're there, for sure. If ever I find a foolproof way of disabling, I'll be sure to let you know.

wxwax

DavidTO wrote:

Actually, I tried it, and it removes the URL as advertised, but not the preview of the linked post.

I'm running the final Safari 3 and they're there, for sure. If ever I find a foolproof way of disabling, I'll be sure to let you know.

Every couple of months, I forget why I don't use Safari, fire it up... and am quickly reminded.

StevenV

wxwax wrote:

Firefox doesn't do this.

hmm, Firefox does it for (to) me. Did you find someplace to turn ToolTips off, or did I turn 'em on by accidens somewhere along the way, I wonder.

wxwax

StevenV wrote:

hmm, Firefox does it for (to) me. Did you find someplace to turn ToolTips off, or did I turn 'em on by accidens somewhere along the way, I wonder.

In Firefox on Winders, I don't get the preview box at all. On a Mac, I get a single line of text.

By contrast, in Safari I get a comparatively large box of text.

I tried to take screen shots, but for some reason Apple-Shift-3 doesn't show the boxes.

StevenV

interesting. I get the single-line tooltip in Firefox on both Mac and Windows. Ain't software fun?

Pupator

I'm convinced that Safari for Windows exists for the sake of developers and no one else.

They don't actually expect people to use it do they? It blows chunks (the Windows version) compared to Firefox and it's lousy compared to IE as well.

On my iPhone, now that's a different story :ivar

davev

wxwax wrote:

In Firefox on Winders, I don't get the preview box at all. On a Mac, I get a single line of text.

By contrast, in Safari I get a comparatively large box of text.

I tried to take screen shots, but for some reason Apple-Shift-3 doesn't show the boxes.

Thats because its Apple-Shift-4.

DavidTO

davev wrote:

Thats because its Apple-Shift-4.

Apple-Shift-4 will grab selections. Apple-Shift-3 is the entire screen.

wxwax

davev wrote:

Thats because its Apple-Shift-4.

Beyond what David said, think about it. To use Apple-Shift-4 you have to move the cursor. What happens to the block of preview text you want to show, when you move the cursor?

DavidTO

Pupator wrote:

I'm convinced that Safari for Windows exists for the sake of developers and no one else.

They don't actually expect people to use it do they? It blows chunks (the Windows version) compared to Firefox and it's lousy compared to IE as well.

Interesting. I find FF frustratingly slow and the RSS is weak compared to Safari. On a Mac, of course. Never tried Safari on Windows.

wxwax

DavidTO wrote:

Interesting. I find FF frustratingly slow and the RSS is weak compared to Safari. On a Mac, of course. Never tried Safari on Windows.

So strange.

If anything, I find Safari slower than FF on my Macbook (although the difference isn't pronounced.) I can unequivocally say it's not faster.

DavidTO

wxwax wrote:

So strange.

If anything, I find Safari slower than FF on my Macbook (although the difference isn't pronounced.) I can unequivocally say it's not faster.

Is too!!!!

I'm also talking about the startup time of the app itself. FF is slow.

wxwax

DavidTO wrote:

Is too!!!!

I'm also talking about the startup time of the app itself. FF is slow.

Is too!!!!
"Windows versions"

wxwax wrote:

on my Macbook

Yeah, FF takes for freakin' ever to hitch up its pants and get out the door.