Software: Trying Safari 3 Public Beta

Software: Trying Safari 3 Public Beta

In the last few days the blogosphere has been pretty busy talking about all the news going on WWDC.
Everyone's writing about leopard, which I think it's looking great, Id Software joining with Apple or about the new Safari.
I don't like to do what everyone else does, but I'm testing the new Safari and I want to share a few thoughts.

One of the new things about Safari is that now there's also a windows version. The first exploit for windows Safari took about two hours to be released and within the first 24h wasn't the only one released). If I may say a busy day for who's having fun cracking the browser.

Still with all the hype about security on safari - and being an OS X user - I gave it a try. Here's what I think about it:

The Good

• Safari 2 already was way too fast rendering pages, so is Safari 3 Beta
• Finally when there are multiple tabs we are prompt when closing the window (yes I know there were plugins for this)
• The tab sliding is eye candy - and sometimes, even handy - along with the tab drag & drop to create a new window, actually this last one I find it very useful.
• The new search interface with the search term highlight is very pleasant to use.
• Javascript is being better supported, I remember having some problems with javascript on events. To be more exact at least the radio button's onChange javascript wouldn't run properly (anyone interested in knowing more about it I can post the exact example)

• The plugins I had installed on safari 2 aren't running because they haven't been tested on safari 3 hence disabled (maybe I can work around it, I don't know...I just start using it now)
• It annoys me when I open an image with the browser and it doesn't scale like firefox does.