February 3, 2004
Safari up. Safari down.
I haven’t run into problems with any previous Safari update. Perhaps this is a happy coincident, but every release has been better and more robust than the last. Until now. Yes, version 1.2 is definitely perkier and I adore the ability to tab to my hearts content through all of the elements on a page, but a couple significant things are being a bit too grumpy for my taste. The most visually annoying issue is that images used in rollovers have a quirky little flash when first displayed, regardless of whether they are preloaded or not. There is mention of this behaviour on Macintouch, so I can take solace in the fact and at least I’m not alone in this observation. This may have something to do with the changes made to the way Safari caches information in this version. Secondly, although I can’t pinpoint what causes it exactly, some text cannot be pasted into another application after copied from a web page. I seems to be related to certain CSS formatted text blocks, but it’s inconsistent. Occasionally, when you select some text and copy it, you only get ‘unknown’ content on the clipboard. Toggling the style sheet off allows the text to be properly copied and pasted. And then again, sometimes it just works the way it’s supposed to after navigating to another page and back. Sigh. Last of all, the size of form controls seemed to have shrunk on the Veer site. For example, we define select elements (pop-up menus) as having a 10px font size. Now these elements appear to be sized equivalent to 9px text. Checkboxes have become smaller as well. Can I go back to Safari 1.1 now, please? [ Update ] I think managed to fix the form element weirdness by removing the font property from the input selector assigned to a certain class of checkbox and then reloading the style sheet. Why a value assigned to checkboxes affected the pop-up menu elements is beyond me.
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