Apple Defends Safari 1.2 Panther Only Stance
According to this MacMinute Article Safari 1.2 was "designed to leverage advances in Panther not present in the Jaguar release of Mac OS X. "
Since I am using 10.3 myself, I find no fault with this. If you are still using 10, 10.1, or 10.2 (or even 9) I think the time has come to upgrade. You know you want Expose.
Posted 4 years, 9 months ago on 10th February 2004.
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Comments
Pete–If you can do it, you should. Panther includes a lot of speed increases that might benefit you greatly.
Even upgrading to 10.2 would give you a great speed boost. Of course if you are going to upgrade to 10.2 you might as well go for Panther.
I am not even sure if you can buy 10.2 anymore.
Plus if you upgrade to Panther you get iChat AV for free. It is like they are paying you to upgrade!
My advice to pre-Panther Mac OS X users: download Camino or Firefox.
I’ve tried to install Jaguar on the Wallstreet, but 10.1.5 seems to be all it can handle. For what I use it for (occasional development work, browsing, email, etc.) it works fine.
I do appreciate that when the Mozilla folks release a new versions of their browsers they work fine without requiring a software (and potential hardware) upgrade,
Macs work for a long time, that’s always been a blessing and a curse. ;)
I would love to upgrade to 10.3.. I just can’t stand the new look of it with all that brushed metal everywhere... It’s horrible to look ata ll day... Unfortunately, there appears to be a bug in Safari (1.0) where web pages get cached for approximately 10 seconds or so (none of the usual headers or meta tags seem to alleviate this, unfortunately).
Apple should at *least* fix this bug, it’s extremely annoying for us developers!
- Greg
Greg · 4 years, 8 months ago
Greg, at the end of the day you don’t have to look at the brushed metal. You can skin the GUI to anything you like, have a quick look at iconfactory.com for a list of sites that offer GUI tweaking.
Even though Apple have been constantly releasing new versions of their OS, Panther is probably the most important one so far. In terms of usability and stableness it really has no peer.
For those running MacOS X Server, the knee-jerk response "You should have upgraded by now" is frustrating. One cannot just upgrade server software whenever one likes. It’d have been nice to see the 1.2 releases available for Jaguar for this reason.
Doug · 4 years, 2 months ago
Well, I can’t really justify upgrading my PowerBook. It’s a G3 Wallstreet running Mac OS X 10.1.5
Of course I welcome any sponsors wishing to help me upgrade to a 17" PowerBook ;)
pete · www · 4 years, 9 months ago