safari on windows /day1bug/joy/fonts!

Read the new item on Joel’s page about the subpixel rendering and all that geek stuff about the font rendering in Windows and Mac. Fonts in Safari are funny and I love them.The positives

  1.  Downright blazing fast: while startup & loading pages.
  2. Fonts look lovely. Extremely smooth at the cost of being blurred too much.

Update: Version 3.0.2 has triaged all these bugs. Immense joy abounds. The bug reports:

(BUG 1) Short Description: Safari crashes while opening Gmail.  

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to gmail.com
  2. Enter user name and password. Check ‘Remember me on this computer’ checkbox. Press Sign In. 
  3. Dialog Pops up for remembering the form details with options: Never, Later, Not Now.
  4. Click on any of the buttons in the dialog. Safari Crashes…

Workarounds:Enable private browsing [ Edit -> Private Browsing]. No crashes.

I know its beta; but it sucks to see it crash.

 (BUG 2) Short Description: Selected Link loses focus when trying to insert hyperlink in WordPress editor.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a post in WordPress.
  2. Select text in the editor and click on the New Hyperlink button.
  3. Insert a link dialog opens. Selected text is unselected.

Workarounds:None. Go to editor and insert the hyperlink through manual linking in Code tab.

 

The Negatives

  1. The crashes & the bugs
  2. Fonts are aliased at low resolutions: 9px or less.

Tremendous joy abounds though, to see the Safari in action on Windows. Mama mia, the fonts are going to kill me. Im in love! 


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