Now that's fast...

Alright, I promise I'll get back to blogging about Java and Terracotta stuff next time but... I've been reading a lot of negative press about Apple's Safari 3 beta and while some it is fair I haven't seen a lot of talk about the good stuff about it. So before people flame me let me start with:

Yes, I know it has security holes and those need to be fixed
Yes, I know it has some bugs (like it doesn't work with Zimbra for me)

But...

It still has all the features from Safari 2:

• reset browser so when your surfing on someone else's computer you can clean up everything you've logged into like e-mail.
• Really good tabbed browsing
• Private browsing (for when you want to pause the caching and recording of what your browsing)
• plus RSS, popup blocking and the other usual suspects.

Good new stuff in 3.0:

This thing is blindingly fast? I haven't taken actual timings but just from eyeballing it this thing is super fast. It is much faster than what was already fast Safari 2.0. And much much faster than Firefox. I don't have the time to do real benchmarks on this but I would love to see some.

Much improved inner search. How many times have I hit command F, typed some text, seen the window move but not be able to find where the highlighted word is. Safari does a really nice animated bubble highlight that is impossible to miss. Kudos to the Apple guys for simple subtle improvements.

Plus I think it is supposed to be more standards compliant and it has this resize textbox feature which I haven't tried yet. update: Works great but worth noting that it only works for multi-line test fields not the single line variety.

update2: Someone pointed out that Safari3 also now has WYSIWYG editor support. Should have mentioned it since I used that when writing the blog :-)

Anyway, don't want to sound like a fanboy boy, and I might be alone, but I actually like Safari 3.0 and think windows users should give it a go to.