as you’ve doubtlessly heard, there were
scads
of
macworld
announcements from
apple
.
perhaps predictably i’m intrigued with
safari
, not leastly because they made the design decision to go with
khtml
over
mozilla’s gecko
for page rendering. this is made all the more surprising because of
the rampant speculation surrounding the motivations behind
apple
hiring
david hyatt
who is well known for his involvement with
chimera
.
hopefully after
david
gets a breather from
responding to reviews of safari
, he’ll shed some light on the reasons behind the decision. [ update: well, if i’d have read sotto before rambling on, i’d have had all my questions answered with this and this ]
fwiw, i think
safari
is a perfectly adequate beta release and look forward to seeing how
it evolves. my primary criticism would be the glaring lack of an
import/export bookmark feature. i use far too many operating
systems and rely far too much on my bookmarks to lock them in to
particular platform. that said, i’m sure the feature will be rolled
in sooner or later.
in other under-reported minutia apple released an officially sanctioned x11 implementation so you can really get yer geek on.