{"id":6683,"date":"2011-06-08T01:03:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T23:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2011-06-08T01:03:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T23:03:55","slug":"safari-5-1-beta-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/safari-5-1-beta-first-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari 5.1 beta – first look"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a look the developer preview of safari 5.1 for 10.6 – here the first impressions (screenshots from the German version, as you might notice).<\/p>\n

Unified cookie and local storage management<\/h4>\n

This is a good addition: Instead of handling cookies and local storage separately you find all stored data per domain in an overview list.<\/p>\n

\"Local<\/a><\/p>\n

CSS stuff\/MathML\/WOFF<\/h4>\n

I think that was already in the latest webkit builds: MathML support and some CSS 3 improvments: Auto-hyphenation, vertical text, emphasis for asian languages and stepped transitions for CSS 3 animations.<\/p>\n

WOFF (=Web Open Font Format) is a good addition, now there’s only one standard for webfonts (as soon as IE 6, IE 7 and IE 8 have disappeared from this planet, probably in autumn 2048)<\/p>\n

Read later<\/h4>\n

\"Read<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Read<\/a><\/p>\n

I use pinboard’s unread list of course, but now safari has a similar feature: You can add pages to a “read later”-list. Either with a shortcut (cmd+shift+d) or – and that is quite cool – by shift clicking a link. Then an uninspired animation throws a black-and-white safari icon onto the glasses and the link is saved there.<\/p>\n

The list itself seems a bit buggy:
You can switch between all items and only unread ones. But clicking an item doesn’t always mark it as read.
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Also the “add page”-button is inactive sometimes.<\/p>\n

The integration is of course well done and looks nice, but the list itself has some drawbacks:
\nYou can’t reorder items, copy the URL via context menu and it’s always on the left side of the current page – a separate window would be a useful option.<\/p>\n

Developer tools<\/h4>\n

Good stuff: Similar to PageSpeed or YSlow the developer tools now include Audits<\/q>, which are basically the same, with a nicer interface.<\/p>\n

Lots of improvements on the existing tools: Resource view is better structured, CSS modifications can simply be entered anywhere (very good idea) and the network view can be filtered and looks even better than the previous one.<\/p>\n

\"Audit<\/a>\"Resource<\/a><\/p>\n

More information here: www.webkit.org\/blog\/1091\/more-web-inspector-updates\/<\/a> and www.webkit.org\/blog\/1091\/more-web-inspector-updates\/<\/a><\/p>\n

window.onerror – Finally…<\/h4>\n

Yes, now you can use the 1963-javascript function window.onerror, just about time.<\/p>\n

Extension API<\/h4>\n

There are new events (open, close, (de)activate , beforeNavigate, navigate, menu, popover), improvement of event-handling (which was IMHO necessary), support for Reader and full screen (boring..).<\/p>\n

But these new additions sound promising: Menus and Popovers. The API documentation isn’t there yet, so we’ll see when it’s online. Since my pinboard plugin<\/a> has already too many buttons, these seem to be a welcome possibility.<\/p>\n

This and that<\/h4>\n

The Webkit plugin API is now deprecated, but Glims still works and 1Password supports Safari 5.1 – other plugins might have to be updated for the final version.<\/p>\n

XML files are now shown in a syntax-highlighted treeview, graphics improvement on Windows, audio\/video can also be stored via HTML5.<\/p>\n

The page up\/down keys don’t scroll the page anymore – WTF?! How stupid is that? Please fix this.<\/strong> (Yes, one can use alt+cursor up\/down, but why should anyone do this?)<\/p>\n

Finally<\/h4>\n

Lots of the good stuff from the latest Webkit releases is now present, read later<\/q> is nicely integrated but still somewhat incomplete. The browser itself feels faster and very stable (after some hours testing at least :). And if the new extension API brings nice features, I’ll hopefully integrate them into the pinboard extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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