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

Sat May 7 19:11:17 UTC 2005

On May 7, 2005, at 2:58 PM, slimvirgin at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

A few weeks ago, Apple pushed out an update to Panther's Safari that  
solved some Javascript performance problems I had been seeing earlier  
(in particular, history pages could be horribly slow before the  
update). If that version is fast enough, then yay.  As always your  
mileage may vary.

It would _not_ be worth your while to upgrade to Tiger for that,  
because the latest Panther Safari's innards and the version that  
ships with Tiger are, according to Apple, identical (and in real life  
they do seem to be performing the same).