With the release of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), the simple, elegant, fast web browser Safari 3 is here.1
Very soon we will release WordPress 2.5, and about the same time WordPress.com will be updated.
With Safari 3 and WordPress 2.5 you should finally have a great experience if Safari is your preferred browser.
Supporting WordPressing is explicitly discussed in Surfin’ Safari Ten New Things in WebKit 3: “1. Enhanced Rich Text Editing”, “We now have support from web applications like WordPress…”.
But that is only half of story. With WordPress 2.5, we have upgraded WordPress’s visual editor to the much anticipated TinyMCE 3 — yes, 3 is very auspicious number.
The TinyMCE team only released TinyMCE 3 in the last month. This is the first release with full support for Safari (3). Thanks to Andrew Ozz’s2 generosity, with the support of Johan Spocke Sörlin and the rest of the TinyMCE team, we were quickly able to integrate it into WordPress 2.5 and fix problems as they have been identified.
The dreaded bug where all of your paragraphs would become one continuous jumble of text has been fixed.
If anything about the development version of WordPress (soon to be released as WordPress 2.5) isn’t working well with Safari 3, it’s now open season on reporting the bugs to us at WordPress, and we can work on figuring if they are ours, Moxiecode’s, or Apple’s.
Surfin’ Safari is a technical blog about WebKit by the developers, not unlike our WordPress Development blog. WebKit is the engine of the Safari browser. It is open source, and is the most popular browser engine on people’s tongues if not on their computers — likely on some of their mobile devices. The WebKit team has an awesome blog powered by WordPress.
As my friends know, when on Windows, I’ve been enthusiastically using Safari on Windows as my secondary browser since August.
The secretive Apple Corporation is not known for having dialogs with its customers — it is known for letting its products do the talking. Nor is Apple known for being an open source participant — the parts of its systems that are open source, and often shared with a, “Here’s the source, do what you want with it. No, we won’t tell you what’s coming next.”
Surfin’ Safari, with its great content, discussions continuing in the comments, and developer community participation seems to show a different, and much appreciated by me, side of Apple. But any questions about future Apple will go unanswered, like when will Safari for Windows be updated next or released?
Surfin’ Safari wasn’t always powered by WordPress, but it has always been powered by browser building legend David Hyatt and his ability to keep us all updated and interested.
- Fiends have told me that Safari 3.0 has also now been included in an update to Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) — I’m getting confused by the one X and all of the cats. [↩]
- azaozz in WordPress’ bug tracker [↩]
- Computers For Kindergartners!
- Reading Safari: Destination Africa
- I Need Center Success In My Classroom!
3 Comments
Mac user said safari is very fast on the Mac. It has nice and native components.
But I often experiencing crash when using Safari in Windows. Symantec says one of the Safari vulnerability relies on the use of IFRAME elements and is highly extensible in destructive capabilities if used in conjunction with Mozilla XPCOM components.
I don’t actualy get what the guy at symantec means though :-p
But I still prefer using firefox and flocks alltogether.
I’m having real issues with the admin interface in safari 3. Wordpress won’t save my links after i submit. works fine in firefox, but bot in safari. I’m not a firefox fan, safari 3 works a lot faster, hopefully the next incarnation of firefox will be a lot lighter.
Hi Juan, can you walk me through step by step what isn’t working in Safari 3? Have you tried refreshing the frame for the links dialog (if that is the problem)?
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