In the last week, two major flaws have been reported, one in downloading .ICS (iCal) files, and one in Safari’s carpet-bombing problems. Now, Microsoft is reportedly getting in on the warnings to Apple.
Basically, Tim Rains, Microsoft’s security guy, says that “Safari…cannot be configured to obtain the user’s permission before it downloads a resource.” That [...]
Today, Davaid Wantanabe announced that Yahoo has acquired the rights to his popular Inquisitor for Safari.
Congrats to David, and a big “what the heck?” to Yahoo. I honestly can’t imagine what Yahoo would want with a plugin for Safari.
It has long been a Safari-only plugin so with the acquisition of it on Yahoo’s end, I’m [...]
Apple posted an update to Safari that – amongst other fixes – patches 4 vulnerabilities in the Windows version and 2 in the OS X version of their flagship browser. One of the Windows issues – CVE-2007-2398 – is especially tricksy: “[the vulnerability allows] a web page to change the contents of the address bar [...]
Evernote, which was once a Windows-only, highly-complex clippings database, has re-invented itself with a new 3.0 beta release that combines a feature-smart client for OS X (& Windows) with creative and handy web & mobile functionality to ensure you never forget anything. I managed to wait in the beta line long enough to get an [...]
There are numerous ways to open a new tab in Safari. You can right click on the tab bar, use the keyboard shortcut Command + T, or use the File Menu item.
Another, less known, way is to double-click the tab bar. Double-clicking will create a new tab and highlight the address bar so you can [...]
Mozilla CEO John Lilly posted a scathing post about Apple auto-updating Windows users’ iTunes and Quicktime programs while adding in Safari 3.1. Lilly starts out by describing how important it is to update programs for the sake of security. He says:
There’s an implicit trust relationship between software makers and customers in this regard: as a [...]
In addition to running The Apple Blog, I also run an interactive design/development firm called Sabotage Media where we build interactive jazz for clients and ourselves.
Something that we released recently was a little web app called TrackThePack that basically lets you track the various packages you have en route to you. It has RSS feeds [...]
Today Apple released its first major Safari update since the release of Leopard.
Taking a look through the improvements it would seem this update is largely for developers.
Sure there are the common security and stability improvements that mainly cater to the average user, but the bulk of the updates ultimately make Safari a more appealing browser [...]
The iPhone 1.1.3 firmware update added some great stuff, including Safari WebClips. I’ve literally added a dozen or more to my home screen in the last 12 hours or so. But the icons for the clips leave something to be desired. Even though I’ve done my best to zoom in as tightly as I can [...]
Since upgrading to Leopard (and thus upgrading to the newest version of Safari), I’ve had the unfortunate problem of Safari throwing all my cookies right out the window.
Every 4-6 weeks I’d fire up Safari only to realize that all logins to various sites were lost, making me either go through each site’s password-retrieval system or [...]
Sigh. One of my favorite add-ons for Safari, Inquisitor, has unfortunately been removed from my computer.
As reported by TUAW, Inquisitor alters search results to insert the developers affiliate links higher up in the rankings. According to the developer, the affiliate links will gradually move further down the results the more you search for a term [...]
Today, with the release of OS X 10.4.11, Apple’s beloved Tiger took its last breath. This update to Tiger is to be the last update to an OS that helped usher Apple in to one of its most profitable and market-share changing eras in their lifespan.
The biggest addition with this update is that Apple is [...]
Here’s a quick tidbit on a new feature of Safari 3 in Leopard. The RSS button in the address bar now support multiple feeds for sites that have them.
Occasionally a site will have separate feeds for different sections of their site and other times they’ll have different formats of the same feed (such as RSS [...]
Single Click Downloading
I was cruising around looking to spruce up my desktop and got to a page that offered many wallpapers and different screen dimensions. All of these dimensions are of course linked to a file that has to be saved somewhere. A simple click on the link causes Safari to open a new window [...]
Mac software maker Market Circle has released iPhoney, an open-source iPhone simulator for web developers. See how your websites look on the iPhone in both portrait and landscape.
It lacks a few iPhone features, such as pinch and zoom, but will let you test while developing apps for iPhone (without using your iPhone). I think this [...]
Web developers have been more and more concerned with coding for mobile devices. Now that the iPhone is here, I wonder if that may change further. The iPhone - unlike most other cellular phones on the market - browses using a wide-screen web browser and the touch interface makes it easy to do [...]
When Microsoft embedded Internet Explorer with Windows, it was an obvious anti-competetive move intended to thwart the growth of the Netscape browser and benefit from the company’s operating system monopoly. The tactic worked, helping to send Netscape into a death-spiral. But if you think about it, years after the dust has settled, and the court [...]
Last night, I made Safari my default Web browser in Windows. With any luck, I won’t be turning back to Internet Explorer or Firefox any time soon. But while some initial issues with the beta version of Safari 3 have been well-documented, including security and font rendering, at least for me, the biggest hole in [...]
