recently i got rachel to switch her browser from an inferior, out-of-date program to the brand new safari browser by apple. it was really the right choice since her old browser was not getting updated by the maker. her switching got me thinking about my browser choice too. i have been using camino for about the last 8 months and i have liked it very much. i like being able to set my own keywords which allows for faster browsing to my most frequented sites and i like that it is a mozilla browser, which means it conforms to w3 web standards. it does, however, have a few flaws. it crashes ( i am not complaining, i know it is still in beta ) more often than i would like.
so, i am also, very slowly making the switch to safari, but i am quite sure that when camino stable release version 1.0 comes out, i will switch right back.
The best part will be when you realize that Safari doesn’t render colors properly. If you have an image with an sRGB tag (or any other valid profile for that matter), Safari will render the image in another color space (who knows which one. Probably whatever the display is set to) rather than the tagged space, which yields mismatched colors when compared to HTML and CSS (CSS colors, by specification, are in sRGB).
For a great example of this, check out http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/colorcube/colorcube-pngs-sRGB-CSS.html
If you see cubes in cubes, you lose! Safari used to be okay, it’s since Panther that it’s gotten sort of broken. I don’t know if this is a difference of opinion between Apple and the rest of the world or if it’s a genuine bug.
Alex Leigh, configuredlight.com (which does not render properly in Safari)
i don’t have jaguar yet and i still see the boxes.
Did you mean to say Panther? Because if you aren’t on even Jag yet you are mad oldschool.
you are right, i don’t have panther yet, still on jaguar.