Re: Browser Use
Jonathan Tyzack <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:26:19 +0000
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--===============1687610108== Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-2--768057640; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" --Apple-Mail-2--768057640 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To get OmniWeb working with MobileMe you need to mess with the site =20 specific preferences. See this thread for more: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=3D9751 Cheers, Jonathan On 21 Feb 2009, at 10:15, John Stalberg wrote: > > On 11 feb 2009, at 10.30, Andrew Zima wrote: >> >> Would the last person mind sharing an example of Firefox's lack of =20= >> Contextual menu support? YMMV but I've never had a problem with =20 >> contextual menus [finding them or using them on G4/G5/intel]. >> >> In the future, could the person having problems atleast mention =20 >> what OS [ 10.3, 10.4, 10.5] and what platform [PPC vs intel] ? >> > I=92m not the person you are referring to but I have a Cocoa favourite = =20 > I use a lot. The mini Dictionary view you can access by hovering =20 > over a word and hit a key combination. The correct keys is located =20 > in System Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Keyboard shortcuts. I have =20= > changed my settings and cant remember the original. It might have =20 > been ctrl + d? > > There are probably a plug-in for FF that will do this and this =20 > illustrates a bit the different approach between OW and FF. OW comes =20= > jammed with integrated features and FF needs to be taken care of by =20= > the user until it shines. > > I don't know when the Dictionary feature were introduced but it has =20= > been there for Cocoa apps for at least a couple of OS X versions and =20= > it is CPU agnostic. > > My biggest issue with FF is it=92s inability to scale performance =20 > wise. With some (large) amount of heavily tabbed windows, perhaps =20 > with lots of scripts and/or flash, it stalls on me. I find OW =20 > reaches crawling speeds in a more direct proportion to the load as =20 > does Safari. FF however suddenly hits the limit and if I'm less than =20= > very patient I have to force quit it. This is with latest FF 3.0.6 =20 > on latest OS X 10.5.6 on both Intel and PPC. With faster hardware =20 > the problem gets easier to get out of since it all depends on =20 > waiting for the browser underpinnings to finnish whatever it is =20 > doing. The whole OS wide user interface often gets stalled when this =20= > is happening to me and sometimes I find it easier to remotely login =20= > (I have a couple of Macs sitting on my desktop connected with Gbit) =20= > and kill FF from a command line. > > OW might not be perfect (yet) but all in all it is one of the things =20= > that really makes my choice of OS platform extra worthwhile. When I =20= > think about it OS X would be significantly less attractive if OW =20 > disappeared! And yet it would be pretty nice anyway in such a case. > > I think Apple should make their http://www.me.com/ page to recognise =20= > OW as a capable browser with the default browser settings. Or is it =20= > perhaps OmniGroup that should think twice about it and come up with =20= > a solution? In any case there should be an non issue to surf right =20 > in on http://www.me.com/ with a WebKit based browser such as OW. > > John Stalberg > > > _______________________________________________ > OmniWeb-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniweb-l --Apple-Mail-2--768057640-- --===============1687610108== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ OmniWeb-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omniweb-l --===============1687610108==--