Windows Internet Explorer versus Safari
While I was working at Airborne I wrote down the things that annoyed me about Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, in comparison to Safari which I use at home. I found them lying around, so here goes:1. The auto-completion of URLs is ordered alphabetically instead of by number of times accessed. This means that 'blah.com/webmail' will always be below other blah.com URLs, even though I go to /webmail multiple times a day and other URLs only rarely.
2. When typing in a URL the '.com' is required. I am so used (and in love) with being able to type just 'scripting' in the location bar and hit enter. This even works on IE for mac. IE should look for the .com address first, and then do other stuff if it is not found.
3. It's a hassle to increase/decrease the text size of the page you are currently viewing. On Safari it is a simple command + to make the text bigger or command - to make it smaller. On IE you must go to the View menu and make the change there. Gimme some keyboard shortcuts.
So that's that. My biggest beef with Safari in comparison to IE is in regards to displaying XML. I think it's clear that a browser is a human interface, and so IE formats XML with nice line breaks and colors for your viewing pleasure. Safari just displays it as if it was a normal webpage (which it isn't). Here's an XML document to show what I am talking about. It looks like shit in Safari, and pretty nice in Windows IE. I have no idea how other browsers display XML.
| Posted by dustin on April 20, 2004 with category tags of apple |
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