Safari Hacks

This post is a rebuttal and a slightly different take on Rob Griffith’s post over at Macworld…

Why do I love Safari? In all the different operating systems I have tried, nothing gives the continuity of OS X. In Tiger, sure there were those random color skews in window shading, etc. What I am talking about, however, is how everything “just works.” From Address Book, to iCal, to Mail- the integration is clear. The fluidity of the apps make it easier to get work done. Period.

Now, I understand everyone has needs, and some will need Firefox. But, for the overwhelming number of OS X users, Safari simply rocks.

Microsoft and Linux don’t essentially want to provide ALL the tools one needs to work in a day. This is because in Windows, software costs money. In Linux, freedom is most prevalent, freedom to use Safari, or Konqueror, or browse in the Terminal if you want.

In OS X however, there strives to be no task un-completable upon first boot. Safari offers an amazing experience, and is nearly as compatible now as Firefox in terms of page rendering.

Furthermore, the experience of public beta 4, offers some awesome features to say the least.

Although not as “plugin-friendly,” from the start, there is plenty that can be customized in Safari, and we will be getting into that customization in the next few posts.

One reader over at Macworld even put me on to the hint of Command+Ctrl and hovering over any word in an open page will give the definition of that word. I love features like these that Apple has so eloquently placed in there.

I guess what makes Safari stand out is that it doesn’t strive to be a clean slate for customization, it attempts to offer every and any possibility for a Mac user, so that user doesn’t have to go looking for that outside solution in the first place. And for those times when there is something we need to squeeze from the depths of Safari, Safarihacks.com is here to help!

Obviously I’m a bit biased on this one, and although Safari may not be the best choice on Windows, I see no reason to look for another solution on my Macs.