Safari 3 review

Hans Dietrich

Just read the review of Safari 3 on ars technica. This caught my eye: Safari 3 for Windows inherits one of the most aggravating failings of the Mac OS X window manager: windows can only be resized from the bottom right corner. Wow! That would be annoying! Read more...

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Dario Solera

Hans Dietrich wrote:

Wow! That would be annoying!

Well, if you are used to resizing a window from any side and corner, you'd find it annoying. Simple.

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Marc Clifton

Hans Dietrich wrote:

windows can only be resized from the bottom right corner.

Ah, I remember encountering that years ago and thinking, wow, what a lame UI. I thought they'd fixed that. And wierd, that they would go out of their way to disable that feature on a Windows app. So much for "easier" and "intuitive". When in Rome... Marc

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Dan Neely

quicktime is the same way. I don't use it, but they probably did the same with iTunes. Apples goal seems to focus more on making their app perform identically cross platform than meeting interface standards on the target system. X|

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Kevin McFarlane

Marc Clifton wrote:

Ah, I remember encountering that years ago and thinking, wow, what a lame UI.

Yeah, I noticed this when I first used Macs back in 1994 and thought at the time it sucked.

Marc Clifton wrote:

I thought they'd fixed that.

Yes. I could have sworn I'd read that this was fixed over 10 years ago!

Marc Clifton wrote:

So much for "easier" and "intuitive"

That's what I thought. It's a definite usability barrier.

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

No more bottom right corner...[^] :->

Kevin McFarlane

Think I'll stay clear of it!

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You obviously never used X with one of those ancient window managers :p Scary~!

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Phil Harding

Hans Dietrich wrote:

windows can only be resized from the bottom right corner. Wow! That would be

Yeah, it is :mad: It also seems to be slower (downloading content) than IE7, but faster rendering pages :confused:

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Kevin McFarlane

My brother, who's been a Mac user for years writes: "Apple need to improve the Mac version in addition to the new windows one. I use Firefox on both my Mac and PC most of the time."

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originSH

It's amazing how they'll roast you alive for not following the Mac visual guidelines and then go out of their way to not follow others visual guidelines. Not that hypocrisy from corporations surprising :P

Todd Smith

Full screen. Resizing windows is for the OCD.

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Gary Wheeler

dan neely wrote:

Apples goal seems to focus more on making their app perform identically cross platform than meeting interface standards on the target system.

Tell me about it. I'm having an organizational UI standard forced on me here at work. The people defining the standard are a bunch of Java/Mac jocks, even though the majority of the products that are being reworked are Windows apps. Needless to say, you can guess what the standard looks like :rolleyes:.

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Michael Dunn

The entire UI aggravated me so much that I uninstalled it before I even noticed the bad text rendering.

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Hans Dietrich

At first when I read this I was boggled that any consumer OS would not support "resize anywhere". Then I realized the implication: on Windows, Safari 3 must have special code that inhibits "resize anywhere", and I was even more boggled!

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Andrew Pearson

Maximise it on a second monitor and it disappears. Still there in the task bar but nowhere to be seen

Rohde

Funny because I hate that Windows windows (!) can be resized from all edges. I never run any windows in full screen mode so when I have to move them around I some times accidentally resize them - unbelieveable annoying! I guess perhaps that's why the Apple UI is like that (since on Apple you almost never run apps in full screen mode).

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