WARNING - Geek Post
So, now that I’m using my mac on a daily basis, I’ve been using Safari, Apple’s web browser, and I have to admit that while I’m probably 98% happy with it, I’m also seriously irritated by a couple of irritating glitches.
1) Occasionally on submitting a form, if I use the back button in the browser, rather than returning me to the form, it just reloads the results - but the browser *thinks* it’s back on the form, because if you hit back again, it takes you to the previous page.
2) When I load up any KMorg journal with the default skin applied (eg, [http://forum.killingmachines.org/], it displays the entire name (minus the first letter) twice, so instead of saying “Forum” at the top, it says “Forumorum” - This bug is CSS related, because I’m using CSS to capitalize the first letter of the word, and it doesn’t happen in any other mac browsers.
3) (and perhaps most irritating, since I spend all day working on web forms), If I tab through a form to fill it out, the tab order *skips* drop down menus, as if they were not valid form elements. This one really bugs, because I’m used to being able to quickly tab through a form with my keyboard and fill it out without touching the mouse… Now whenever a drop-down menu is a required field, I have to use the mouse to go fill it in.
None of these are really bad errors, and I know that it’s a new browser, but it just drives me nuts.
I can’t use Chimera/Camino because it doesn’t open tab groups correctly (it appears to have a limit, which Safari doesn’t have), I can’t use IE because it sucks (mainly in that it doesn’t have tabbed browsing or popup blocking), and I can’t use Mozilla because I’m already using it for mail, and OS X gives you no way to tab between open windows inside a program.
There, now I feel a little better. Overall, I love my mac, and I’m very happy with the switch, but little things like this, that worked perfectly on the PC are driving me nuts.
I'm a 30-year-old 
did you see? ibooks now come with G4s!
[ October 22nd, 2003 at 11:08 am
Too late but…
Best browser solution for windows:
http://www.avantbrowser.com/
All the features IE is missing but still IE. You know, if you’re into that sort of thing ;)
S
October 22nd, 2003 at 11:39 am
Son of a -!
Man, I’ve got ROTTEN timing. First Panther, and now G4 chips. All for the same money. :(
October 22nd, 2003 at 4:09 pm
Speaking of annoying:
Whenever I click on any of your links in the “links” page, the page somehow “grows” downward making it seem as if I had clicked on nothing so I have to click a couple of times before the screen stops pushing the links section downward before I can actually click on my favorite comics. Also, the text size is bigger than usual so the white links section is already pushed below Rusted.KM.org and Killingmachines links that are normally on the left side.
I don’t know how better to describe it. I’ll send you some screen shots when I get a chance.
I am using:
Win 2K SP3
IE 5
Default Rusted Skin
I’m sure its some fun between CSS and IE. Thought you might want to know, if you didn’t already know that IE was crappy :)
October 23rd, 2003 at 12:49 pm
Also, this ONLY happens on the Links section. Not here while I’m trying to post.
October 23rd, 2003 at 12:50 pm
same deal
that was happening to me up north, although thankfully it’s not any more. i have no idea what version of windows those computers were running, but it was ie. ie suxxors.
thankfully i’m redoing my computer(s) so it’s time to switch to mozilla firebird. a sweet sweet browser.
October 23rd, 2003 at 7:51 pm
Advice from a random fellow off the internet follows: I asked my mac using friends, and apparently command-` (the key that when you press shift becomes ~) switches between windows within the current application. So now you can use Mozilla.
October 25th, 2003 at 10:38 pm
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