[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia widget for new Macintosh OS release

Sat May 7 18:58:46 UTC 2005

On 5/7/05, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at 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.

Sarah