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Okay, what ARE the seven web-safe font families anyway?

My first FIRST!

Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Tahoma, Times, Times New Roman, Verdana.

Microsoft ass-lickers* will remove Helvetica and TImes from that list and replace with Comic Sans Serif and Trebuchet.

*Such users are addled, blind, and can't even understand ligatures, much less have the taste required to properly choose fonts.

Mar 20, 08 - 05:11 pm Comment from: Jubei

I can confirm, Safari is snappier than Firefox.

Microsoft plans to discontinue Explorer in the next version of the operating system.

In the future, Windows users will access the web through a high speed DOS terminal based browser based on closed-source code.

Windows users don't need nonsense like Java and CSS animations. They just need an efficient way to download viruses and trojans to upgrade their OS with additional features.

Mar 20, 08 - 05:26 pm Comment from: Thorin

Yeah, I'm really liking Safari 3.1 so far. A lot zippier here.

"Today I use mainly Safari because it uses CSS best and above all for the typography. Even Firefox can learn from Safari's typography. Why is it that so few programs handle text well? Why is typography so lousy on the screen?" - World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau

Is that an endorsement or what?

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_World_Wide_Web_co-inventor_Robert_Cailliau

I remove Arial from all my macs.

Mar 20, 08 - 05:59 pm Comment from: JAYGEE

When I had Windows XP, I used Firefox. When I had Tiger, I used Firefox, but now on Leopard, I use Safari. Mainly because of Safari 3,and 3.1 now. I didn't like Safari 2, for some reason.

Mar 20, 08 - 06:11 pm Comment from: nekogami13

I never use safari. I hated konqueror under linux, I still hate it under OS X.
Fix the crazy cookie handling in safari, getting rid of the all or nothing allowing whitelisting and I might give it a look.

Firefox is still far superior to me.

damned. I'm running it on Vista here at the office, and it is totally faster than IE. Awesome.

"Firefox is still far superior to me."

nekogami13, don't put yourself down like that, we all reckon you're splendiferous.

'Bout time someone liberated fonts. shoulda been done years ago.

Have they fixed the cache issue that exists in Safari 2 with version 3. I don't get to have Safari 3 at work. :(

Mar 20, 08 - 08:37 pm Comment from: Cubert

Dudes and Dudettes,
I have waited for this moment for several years. Safari is faster on both my Macs than is Firefox and I have officially switched to it. I even dragged the Firefox icon off my Dock. And, yes.......it went poof.

Mar 20, 08 - 08:39 pm Comment from: Cubert

"Comic Sans Serif and Trebuchet."

Yech.

You can double click now in the tab bar to open a new tab like in Firefox

Downloadable Fonts for web pages?! Great, another attack vector which will lead to security problems - malformed Fonts leading to remote code exploitation anyone ...

I hope the Safari team have done their research on this.

Mar 20, 08 - 09:37 pm Comment from: MacSheikh

@ SKY LARK

"nekogami13, don't put yourself down like that, we all reckon you're splendiferous."

Hilarious! Lol!

Mar 20, 08 - 09:56 pm Comment from: HMCIV

I kinda like the Trebuchet font. Even though it's French

Tom, please... DON'T PANIC. Yes, there might be some as-yet-unseen exploit here. But that could be true even if all they did was update their support for good ol' GIF images. As is it, font data is not likely to be any more problematic than any other kind of complex graphic data, such as SVG or PDF or other vector formats.

I look forward to seeing the mechanism they are using for this. It's been tried before, but always runs aground over the issue of font copyrights. Maybe they have DRM for fonts now???

Mar 20, 08 - 11:51 pm Comment from: The Other Steve

So, when do we get the upgraded faster Safari for iPhone?
Or did iPhone have it first?

Mar 21, 08 - 12:53 am Comment from: Wade

There's a new preference for database storage. What's that about?

I like Safari's speed and the Inquisitor plugin is awesome, but I have to say I think FireFox 3 beta 4 is even faster than Safari 3.1
Its pretty close and I admit I havnt done extensive testing, but it does feel that way.
Safari beats FF on the inbuilt dictionary (Ctrl + Cmd + D), and the searching of pages too.
Safari also seems to have at last got rid of that annoying delay when first loading a page.

Mar 21, 08 - 08:52 am Comment from: Angelus520

Just downloaded on my crappy work HP running VI$TA and this version works when the last one didn't. I've been using Firefox since the first of the year but will be switching back to Safari.

Mar 21, 08 - 01:57 pm Comment from: UltraVisitor

Great, it is the fastest browser at rendering websites. Now if only we could customize the UI with a custom skins. No option for icons in the bookmark bars is a deal breaker for me.

Does anyone know of a web browser that uses the Webkit engine but has a skinable interface?

Mar 22, 08 - 03:20 pm Comment from: Jamie

@razor, I got rid of the delay you are talking about by switching to OpenDNS:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Give it a go, you won't be disappointed.

JK

And it still crashes too often... back to Webkit.