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Safari 3.0: Leopard can’t come too soon!

October 5th, 2006 at 10:44am madgunde

If you’re like me, you spend a crazy amount of your waking hours in a web browser. For me, that browser is Apple’s Safari, and despite some enticing features of other browsers for Mac OS X (there are quite a few), I stick with Safari because I love it’s uncluttered interface, excellent support for web standards and Apple look/feel that the other browsers just seem to be lacking.

Well, a few weeks back a video showed up on YouTube purporting to show off new drag-able tabs in the upcoming version of Safari in Mac OS X Leopard, but there was much reason to be skeptical, given all the fake Leopard screenshots and movies that made the rounds leading up to WWDC’06. Well kids, it looks like drag-able tabs are coming to Safari 3.0, as well as a couple of other really cool features, according to an article on Musings From Mars blog. The article includes videos demonstrating the three features, so I highly recommend you check it out!

Drag-able tabs, much improved in-page search and resizable form text fields! Very nice. Now the one feature that I’d still like to see is true zooming in and out on a page. Not simply changing text size, I want all page components to scale proportionately. Opera is the only browser that I know of that does this. Very handy for people with lots of screen real estate who wants to enlarge a page to make it more easily read from further back, or those with notebooks who want to be able to see more of a web page on the screen at once. Give me that and site-specific settings, and I’ll be a really happy camper. Of course, drag-able tabs, improved in-page find and resizable form text fields go a long way to helping me forget about the other stuff.

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