Well, I admit it. As much as I want to use Apple's new browser Safari, I've switched back to Chimera. Confusingly, Chimera is now called Camino. And there's a new version (.07 - really this time, not like on 3/5.) But before I could download that I find out the brand spanking new Safari v.64 (cripes, .62 hasn't even been officially released yet) supposedly has the improvement I'm looking for: open tabs in background.
I had been running the hypothetical v.62 with no problems (other than tabs not working the way I wanted.) Thanks to Chris for the hook up on that one. V.64 I found here: http://www.deepapple.com/downloads/?oid=705 . Shhhh! If you're brave, give it a shot. Probably requires 10.2.3 but don't quote me on that. If you're not so brave wait for me to report.
Pure bliss. Thanks Apple. Thanks Hyatt. Thanks you other developers who I don't know because you don't have blogs (but that's ok if you're using all your extra time to fix bugs.)
OK, one nit to pick. If you try to open a link in a new tab, and the link has a target attribute set to open it in a new window, you get a new window with a blank page on top, and the link opening in a new tab underneath.
Instead, I think the browser should ignore the target attribute, and just open it in a new tab in the present window. That's how chimera does it I'm pretty sure. In any case, I think that's what people would expect to have happen.
Still, I can live with this. And I really like that when you close a tab the focus shifts to the underneath (to the right) tab. This is unlike Chimera, and I think a subtle improvment.
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I had been running the hypothetical v.62 with no problems (other than tabs not working the way I wanted.) Thanks to Chris for the hook up on that one. V.64 I found here: http://www.deepapple.com/downloads/?oid=705 . Shhhh! If you're brave, give it a shot. Probably requires 10.2.3 but don't quote me on that. If you're not so brave wait for me to report.
- jim 3-07-2003 7:56 pm
Pure bliss. Thanks Apple. Thanks Hyatt. Thanks you other developers who I don't know because you don't have blogs (but that's ok if you're using all your extra time to fix bugs.)
- jim 3-07-2003 9:16 pm
OK, one nit to pick. If you try to open a link in a new tab, and the link has a target attribute set to open it in a new window, you get a new window with a blank page on top, and the link opening in a new tab underneath.
Instead, I think the browser should ignore the target attribute, and just open it in a new tab in the present window. That's how chimera does it I'm pretty sure. In any case, I think that's what people would expect to have happen.
Still, I can live with this. And I really like that when you close a tab the focus shifts to the underneath (to the right) tab. This is unlike Chimera, and I think a subtle improvment.
- jim 3-08-2003 1:17 am