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Safari 3.0 Public Beta (Windows)
Frazier Barretto, Jun 25, 2007 1100 hrs ISTAre you ready for a simple and smooth Safari? Still in Beta stages, here's our preview of the budding browser for the good old Windows.
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Interface
Safari's interface is smooth and swift and it doesn't take time to load. Safari states that its interface is such that the user can focus on browsing rather than the browser, which is perfect and I personally wouldn't want to change that. For now, the interface is basic and for those who like the show-shine will just have to wait. Claims such as Safari being two times faster than any other browser are quite evident. Safari filters all the data that is to be loaded on the page; it loads it in parts starting off with text, small images and then the large ones. Even Java pages open fast.
Safari has yet to be developed to be fully compatible with Windows. The available Beta doesn't support Windows like window options; such as restore, size, minimize, and maximize. Only Close and Move options are highlighted. All of the others can be performed only through mouse clicks on the buttons at the end of the title bar. It isn't even possible to access these options from the taskbar. That said, there is a lot more to be done before the final release of the Safari.
The Safari browser doesn't offer a lot of options in terms of adding or removing buttons from the toolbar. The options for this customization come in the form of a Mac style popup in the centre from the toolbar. There are few options which we generally neglect. The only cool part is the neat animation when adding or removing buttons from the toolbar. You add and remove the buttons by dragging them from the drop down to the toolbar. When adding a button, the rest of the buttons slide on either side to provide space for the additional button and while removing a button from the toolbar, that buttons explodes. The same animation, like in the toolbar customization, is seen even in organization of bookmarks. Safari allows you to resize the text fields in the toolbar as per your liking. So if you wish for more text space for the search field, which is mostly the case, you can now resize it and unlike Firefox you don't require an add-on to do that. Talking about customizations, other browsers these days offer a lot more than just these basics.
Unlike Firefox or IE7, Safari doesn't offer add-ons, it just has basic plugins. At the moment there are just about six plugins which are very basic and in due time of the release of its final version, Mac will add more. As for the add-ons, we'll just have to wait and watch if they plan to provide users more customizability.
Did all the above hurt? Wait, there is still more. The Safari browser has very few shortcuts. These few shortcuts are not even the standard ones except for opening a new tab and a new window. The rest of the shortcuts are mostly a combination of three keys and it will take you some time to get to know them. You can look up the available shortcuts through the help menu.
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