Safari 3.1 for Windows: ready for prime-time?

Almost there, at least according to Arstechnica.

We put the Safari 3 beta on Windows through the wringer last summer, and we weren’t too terribly impressed. The problems were significant, such that we’d have a hard time recommending the browser to any Windows user. As of last summer, Firefox was still the Windows browser of choice here at Ars. Have things improved for Safari? Wow, have they.

Let’s sum up some improvements Arstechnica acknowledged in Safari 3.1:

• Safari 3.1 scores a 75 on Acid 3 (compared with a 53 on Firefox 2.0.0.12, a 40 on Opera, and a paltry 12 on IE7),
• it’s now a stable, usable web browser (night and day difference compared to the previous beta),
• memory usage is good, too (Safari uses about the same amount of memory as Firefox),
• start time is fast, but not lightning fast (IE7 still faster),
• HTML rendering speeds are very quick,
• JavaScript performance is Safari’s strong point (subjectively faster than IE and about as fast as Firefox, perhaps a bit speedier).

..and some problems left:

• no “new tab” button,
• problems when trying to add certain buttons to the toolbar (doing so would consistently fail, but a restart fixed this),
• Safari 3.1 for Windows continues to use the Mac OS X font anti-aliasing approach rather than the native font anti-aliasing system in Windows – ClearType (the result is text that is often fuzzy, particularly smaller text).

Interested in more details about Arstechnica short review? Off you go..

Want to try Safari 3.1 on your own? Off you go..

P.S.: Arstechnica rules!

- Regards, Milan

HistoryFlow for Safari

Something for all you Mac lovers.

SafariStand, a package which enriches Safari browser with some nice & usefull features, brings CoverFlow to Safaris history (via arstechnica) in it’s latest version.

You can download SafariStand here. Installation is quite simple (intructions are included in package), althought you will first need to install SIMBL which is required.

And I almost forgot. Windows Safari users will have to pass on this, it’s only for MacOS X..

Show Them You Best Night Photo

This is something for all you photographers out there, mastering the night photography. This week’s Wired photo contest is inviting you to show them your best night photo. The 10 most highly ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage.

You can preview all submissions here. My humble contribution is titled “Belgrade @ Night” (also attached in this post). Althought, looking at most of uploaded pics, I pity myself .. :)

Anyway, if someone is interested – this is my messy public gallery at Flickr. I have to take some time to clean it up and reorganize in the future.

Google’s Top 17 Easter Eggs

The easter holidays are almost over, so let’s refresh our memory on Googles top 17 easter egg decorations (via digg).

Reading comments on digg, you will see that some good ones are left out of this list. For more of them, please read this comment.

Gmail Paper is still my favorite. :)

Das gibts doch nicht, EBEL?

HDD ZM Olimpija Ljubljana vs. EC Red Bull Salzburg
2:2 – Alles wieder offen!

Begründung:
Der Spieler Bostjan Groznik verbüßte zum Zeitpunkt des vierten Finalspieles eine Sperre. Der Punktewert des Spielers Bostjan Groznik beträgt 2,5 Punkte. Dies bedeutet, dass dem Verein HDD ZM Olimpija Ljubljana im Rahmen des Punktesystems am 20.3.2008 62,5 Punkte zur Verfügung standen. Hievon wurde der Verein am 19.3.2008 schriftlich verständigt.

Aus dem Spielbericht ergibt sich, dass der Verein Olimpija Ljubljana zwanzig Spieler im Spielbericht mit einem gesamten Punktewert von 62,5 Punkten angeführt hat. Dabei wurde offensichtlich übersehen, dass die beiden nicht mit einem Spieler besetzten Positionen gegenständlich mit zwei Punkten zu bewerten sind. Daraus ergibt sich, dass Olimpija Ljubljana 64,5 Punkte verplante, obwohl dem Verein nur 62,5 Punkte zur Verfügung standen. Ein solcher Verstoß führt zwingend zu einer Strafverifizierung.

Der Beglaubigungssenat veröffentlichte diese begründung heute, eine uhr for dem fünfte spiel. Stunden später verlierte Olimpija mit 5:0 – regelmassig.

Nich Bullen, ÖEHV dreht die Serie!