[Mediawiki-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia widget for new Macintosh OS release

[David Gerard]

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slimvirgin at gmail.com (slimvirgin at gmail.com) [050508 04:58]:
> On 5/7/05, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at 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.