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slimvirgin(a)gmail.com (slimvirgin(a)gmail.com) [050508 04:58]:
On 5/7/05, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon(a)prwatch.org>
wrote:
> I see that someone has already written a
Wikipedia widget for the
> dashboard on the new OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") release for the Macintosh:
>
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/wikipedia.html
Sheldon, interesting that you should mention Mac and
Wikipedia. I've
had some trouble with Wikipedia/Safari compatibility. I was running
Jaguar until a few months ago, which meant I was restricted to Safari
1.2. Whenever I edited or even previewed a WP page with accents,
Safari changed them all, so I had to stop using it. Then someone on
this list said this was a problem only with 1.2 but 1.3 had fixed it.
I liked Safari so much as a browser that I upgraded to Panther so that
I could use Safari 1.3. and it did fix the accent problem, but is so
slow to get into WP that I've had to abandon it again. All the other
browers I use (Netscape, Opera, Firefox) get into WP considerably
faster than Safari 1.3 (which sometimes just hangs and never makes it,
and when it does, I get lots of spinning pizzas if I try to open
multiple windows), whereas Safari 1.2 seemed as fast as the others.
Now I'm wondering whether it would make any difference if I upgraded to Tiger.
That strikes me as odd, seeing as Brion uses a PowerBook and so presumably
does development work on MediaWiki on it ... Brion? (anyone?)
- d.