Glimmerblocker review2/28/2024 ![]() Having tabs at the top is a very logical thing to do tabs do take precedence over other controls, and are relevant at the top but two things are possibly confusing having no title bar to drag the window around with, which you are used to, and the ‘travel time’ of bringing your cursor to the top of the window to switch tabs is greater. ![]() I like it it’s less turquoise, a bit more blue, and a whole lot more subtle.īut this is all trivial compared to the dramatic changes to tabs. Interesting to note is that the blue glowing highlighted style of pages in the grid is very similar a the style I described in my UI breakdown of iLife / iWork ‘09. It’s a very nice way to get ‘acquainted’ with the Safari experience. It sounds ever so simple, and perhaps useless, but it’s a genuinely pleasant feedback for page load completion, and it just feels right. Upon going from the pretty grid of your favorite and most visited pages to a website, it seamlessly animates and ‘fades in’ the webpage after it’s been loaded. Safari is representative of a ‘smooth’ browsing experience it starts up quickly, and presents you a very Apple-like intro movie (yes, an intro movie, with a fancy animated Safari icon, and I’ve heard that it seems the intro is largely composed using images and CSS. Using it casually, I found there’s also some other, more subtle changes and additions that made me really enjoy giving this beta a spin, and perhaps will sway me into using Safari a lot more (provided I can find a working Adblock extension). It sort of took me back for a second to the time where I mocked up the ‘dream browser’. Notably, Safari adds tabs to the top of the window (seemingly ‘aping’ Google’s Chrome, which isn’t out for Mac yet) and several new features for visual browsing (nevermind my own ‘top sites’ I haven’t used Safari for months). Well, another day, another major browser beta Safari 4 went public beta today, with a lot more UI changes and additions than we’d all expected from the limited developer preview that was released months ago.
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