[Ti] [OT] Microsoft to quit web browsers for Mac

[Trevor J. Hutley]

At 15:47 -0700 17-6-2003, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>I downloaded Safari today and although I notice it is much faster than
>Internet Explorer, there are several things that make it a non-starter:

I think "non-starter" is a bit strong !

I would agree that there are several functions that can be - need to 
be - improved.
But in the very vast majority of cases, SDafari is fine.

>It appears that there is no way to sort bookmarks alphabetically.  (Internet
>Explorer but you have to initiate it manually in each folder.)
>
>In the Bookmarks window, there is no way to go change focus between the
>Collections pane and the Bookmark list pane without using the trackpad.
>
>There is no way to go to a site in the Bookmarks Window without using the
>trackpad.
>
>There is no way to go to a site in the Bookmarks Bar without using the
>trackpad.

Book marks (as you mention above) is certainly one area that could be 
improved.  I have a lot of book marks.

The management of them - alphabetical ordering is a simple example - 
co;ld be improved.

'Remove duplicates' would be a valuable function, especially twhen 
one has imported countless bookmarks from all the other browsers....

>When tabbing across a page, it does not tab to links, checkboxes, drop-down
>boxes and other items like Internet Explorer does.  Again, you have to go to
>the trackpad, point and click.

Perhaps I feel that the trackpad is part of my hand, so I never 
noticed this, as I do it automatically.
There are certain sites (EasyJet.com, where I book a lot of flights) 
where Safari does not funciton as well as IE (eg selection of 
departure cities: in IE, merely typing G gets me to Geneva, whereas 
in Safari, I have to scroll down. )

>  the speed of Safari without all these missing features?

For me, these are not missing features, they are items on the "to 
improve" list.
I value the speed a lot.  I use Camino as my Plan B, IE 523 if I have to.

Trevor