Safari To FINALLY Gain Omni-bar In OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Embarrassing as it may be to get excited over something so minor, here were are getting excited over something very minor. While there are certainly going to be a boatload of new features in OS X 10.8 that are far more important and “bigger” than a simple Safari tweak, seeing news of Safari finally getting an omni-bar ala Chrome/Firefox makes us happy. Quite simply, instead of having to jump back and...
We’ve been using OS X Lion on our new MacBook Air for a little over a week now. During that time we’ve reverted back to Safari for our internet conquests solely because Google Chrome doesn’t yet support all of Lion’s baked-in gesture functionality. But things are beginning to change with the current Chrome Dev version 14. Besides new two-finger swipe for forward/backward navigation between tabs, speed is once again a focus. But is it the fastest?...
Yay! Browser market share numbers. This rather unexciting topic is oddly enough one of our favorite topics. On that note, Zdnet has released a new chart (above) that shows browser market share over the last year. Specifically, Chrome is up 6% along with Safari’s ~2.25%. Meanwhile Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s IE browsers continue to bleed users with the latter now falling to 53.7% overall. While IE still holds over half of the world’s...
If the OS X 10.7 (Lion) UI tweaks we showed you earlier weren’t efficiently wetting your whistle, how about some Safari 5.1 action? The above screenshot (compliments of AppleInsider) shows us yet another iOS-esque feature making its way to the desktop, specifically Safari. When a download is in progress within Apple’s latest upcoming browser, a new icon appears next to the web address/search bar. Clicking on it opens up an iPad-esque downloads box that lists...
While some of the bigger features of iOS 4.2 such as AirPrint and AirPlay dominated the limelight, Apple snuck in a few other gems. As it just so happens, a development company by the name of Occipital happened to stumble upon one of these so called secret features: Augmented Reality. You can check out the AR capabilities within Mobile Safari by pointing your browser to the live demo the developers at Occipital set up here. With all the talk of the web being the future of...
