Alex Mace's Blog » Safari http://blog.alexmace.co.uk Life & Web Development Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:34:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 iPhone 2.2 http://blog.alexmace.co.uk/2008/11/22/iphone-22/ http://blog.alexmace.co.uk/2008/11/22/iphone-22/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:08:05 +0000 Alex http://blog.alexmace.co.uk/?p=307 The latest update to the iPhone came out today. I’m not going to go into all of the new features implemented in the latest version, you can find out about them all here. I do have a comment on one change though. In Safari, why have changed the address & search box from having a line each to now being crammed into a single line? While this does free up more space on the page, I’m not especially interested in the content of the page while putting a new address or search terms. That’s annoying.

Other than that, I’m hoping that 2.2 will cure the crashes of Safari and Facebook that I’ve been encountering. Safari will sometimes crash when scrolling through a big page and Facebook just crashes randomly sometimes. I haven’t noticed either crash since I updated, but I haven’t used it that much today. I’ll comment back on how I get on.

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I think at least in the short to medium term, I’ll be sticking to Firefox as my main browser – tools like Firebug and the Web Developer extension just make it the perfect platform for development. However, the new Web Inspector in Safari 3 looks like it might be offering some strong competition for the hearts and minds of developers. I have been trying to make sure I do my morning reading on Google Reader using Safari, and I try and keep my to-do list on Basecamp open in Safari. We’ll see where we go from here…

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