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Why Photographers (and L.L. Beans) Will Like Safari for Windows
(old news - 10:40AM Friday Jun 15 2007)
"My modest contribution to all this is pass on a note from my friend Tom, a physicist and photographer, who points out that Safari 3 does something no other browser for Windows -- and only a few for Mac -- do: handle colors of high quality photographs correctly. He includes a pointer to a color management tutorial where you can see the effect for yourself." • More here• The Rob Galbraith article
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NoelC
D S L R Bliss
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Florida
| Bravo to Apple for bringing more technology to browsing We know that many folks accidentally publish images with an embedded color profile other than sRGB for web display, and this will help in that regard. This may herald a new era in color managed browsers for PCs, as I'm sure Microsoft will sooner or later want to follow suit.
As a PC user, I'm a little disappointed in the quality of the beta, however. Safari 3 may be color-managed, but it does have a few glitches...
1. It always seems to want to open on my first monitor and at the same default size, despite my having moved it to my second monitor. I know that persistence is one of the touted features on the Mac; why not on the PC too?
2. It's locked up a number of times so far. Once it also locked up my Start bar (Explorer) in the process - something which virtually never happens to me otherwise. I'm continuing to test it.
3. Fonts all seem rather too bold by default, as though its font smoothing algorithm is being a bit overzealous. This is as compared to ClearType in Windows. Notably it's possible to tone this down in Edit - Preferences.
4. I like my bookmarks to be available via menu, and it doesn't seem doable in Safari. Instead one has to open the collections bar along the left side to use it. More mouse clicks than IE to do the same thing. The best I've been able to do is add my Imported IE Favorites to the Bookmarks Bar, but I'd really rather access them from the menus as I have been in IE.
5. They seem to want to import at least some of the Apple GUI look and feel and functionality into Windows. For example, one can't stretch the window without grabbing the bottom right corner, and the window doesn't have the look and feel that the other windows do per the desktop settings. Sorry, Apple, but some PC users actually LIKE the way the PC GUI works. I doubt Safari is going to be able to change Windows singlehandedly.
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CatSnak
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| Re: Bravo to Apple for bringing more technology to browsing said by NoelC  :4. I like my bookmarks to be available via menu, and it doesn't seem doable in Safari. Instead one has to open the collections bar along the left side to use it. More mouse clicks than IE to do the same thing. The best I've been able to do is add my Imported IE Favorites to the Bookmarks Bar, but I'd really rather access them from the menus as I have been in IE. -Noel This is somewhat doable. You have to create custom folders, copy your bookmarks into the bookmark bar and then move them to the custom folder. They are now available as a drop down item on the bookmark bar.
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ |  Link to a test page to see difference between browsers
Pull the page up in IE and then in Safari 3 to see the differences. | |
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