Jay Robinson

iPad vs iPad 2: RAM performance in Mobile Safari

You guys know you can paste URLs directly into the Safari Downloads window right?

Okay, just checking.

UPDATE: As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Safari 5.1 no longer supports this behavior. Sorry, Charlie.

Okay, make that three really awesome Safari Extensions for me so far. My latest favorite, BetterSource, allows you to see syntax-highlighted source code, both generated and original.

Safari Extensions Tumblr:

Gentle Status Bar by Daniel Matarazzo

A Chrome-like statusbar replacement that more closely replicates the look of Safari’s default statusbar. It also doesn’t load in iframes like those used for Tumblr’s upper-right-hand-corner buttons.

This is the only Safari Extension I’m using right now.

"Technologies like Safari Reader sound a salutary warning to media companies and advertisers. From now on, we must love our readers or die."

— The Guardian, via Nik Fletcher.

Multi-Safari →

Safari 5 is my new favorite browser, but I was a little hesitant to upgrade until I’d figured out how I could keep Safari 4. The Multi-Safari project solves that handily.

The Multi-Safari website allows you to download all the previous versions of Safari back to 1.0. Every version is specially packaged to use the WebKit rendering engine that was available at the time of release.

Now, in my Applications folder, I have Safari 2.0.app, Safari 3.2.1.app, Safari 4.0.5.app and Safari.app (Safari 5), along with the WebKit Nightly. (While running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the oldest version I’m able to run is Safari 2.0.)

Although Safari does not have the market fragmentation of IE, it can be useful to have older versions around for testing Ext JS. Plus, I’m just kinda sentimental like that.

Safari 5 is my new favorite browser.

Kevin Burg: “Indie cartoon about Safari - I’d watch it, if it existed.”

Me too.

Write Shorter URL Structures in Safari

If you want to load this URL in Safari, “http://www.domain.com/stuff/evenmore/”, all you have to type is “domain/stuff/evenmore”.

Just a short tip for Safari users. Lately I seem to be using it a lot.

Stupid Chrome can’t figure this one out, and Firefox loads domain.com. Weird.

EDIT: Kevin wrote me to say that “Command + Return” in Firefox will do the same (instead of loading domain.com). “Shift+Return” loads domain.net. Neat.

"I want my sites to look Safari in Safari, and Safari in every other major browser out there."

— Noah Stokes

S. A. Fari, Web Inspector by Flickr user iPjtr.

Andy Clarke’s Hardboiled project was the inspiration for this fictional business card.

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Today I built my own Coda interface on our Fasturtle development server.

It still needs a few things:

• dynamic screenshots script (perhaps webkit2png)
• dynamic resizing of thumbnails with slider
• page curl effect?