On 5/7/05, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon(a)prwatch.org> wrote:

> I see that someone has already written a Wikipedia widget for the > dashboard on the new OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") release for the Macintosh: > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/wikipedia.html

Sheldon, interesting that you should mention Mac and Wikipedia. I've had some trouble with Wikipedia/Safari compatibility. I was running Jaguar until a few months ago, which meant I was restricted to Safari 1.2. Whenever I edited or even previewed a WP page with accents, Safari changed them all, so I had to stop using it. Then someone on this list said this was a problem only with 1.2 but 1.3 had fixed it. I liked Safari so much as a browser that I upgraded to Panther so that I could use Safari 1.3. and it did fix the accent problem, but is so slow to get into WP that I've had to abandon it again. All the other browers I use (Netscape, Opera, Firefox) get into WP considerably faster than Safari 1.3 (which sometimes just hangs and never makes it, and when it does, I get lots of spinning pizzas if I try to open multiple windows), whereas Safari 1.2 seemed as fast as the others. Now I'm wondering whether it would make any difference if I upgraded to Tiger.