Tuesday, 02/03/04

Safari 1.2 seems a little dicey in the human interface department. Tab-selection of links and onscreen objects drives me crazy, and Safari only partially lets users turn it off (popup menus and bookmark bar items are still included even when "Do not highlight links when I press the Tab key" is selected). This is mucking with some paleolithic muscle memory, and I'm not thrilled about it. Incidentally, if you don't quit the previous version first, the installer kills it for you.

One of my favorite selection niceties from IE was its ability to partially select the text of a link and follow it by hitting return, which was helpful in tandem with command-F. I'd hoped this would come with tab-selection in Safari, but no dice. And I've pretty much given up hope that they're ever going to fix the scripting dictionary, OmniWeb 5's example aside. Scripting of tabs can be worked around with work in the Accessibility API, but that's more than most scripters can be expected to tackle. 09:03AM «

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