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slimvirgin@gmail.com (slimvirgin@gmail.com) [050508 04:58]:
On 5/7/05, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@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.
David Gerard wrote:
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?)
Safari 1.3 on Mac OS X 10.3.9 seems to work fine for me (it's my primary browser).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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.
Safari 1.3 has shown speed problems for some users with some technologies. have a look in the usual places (Tidbits, Macnn, macfixit etc). i don't use (or like) Safari so I didn't pay attention. It's probably not to do with Mediawiki.
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