(for mac desktop users) I got a notice there was a new beta version of Safari from Apple dev, and thought there wouldn't be a problem trying it out. Usually I will test a new OS on an isolated drive, just in case.
"But this is just an app", I thought. I was wrong. As soon as I tried to hit the 'enlarge' button on a YouToob video, I realized I had screwed up by installing it. You know that 'Full Screen' mode that some apps have now, where if one has two monitors, the second is rendered useless and presented with a grey textured background? Well now this extends to the Safari browser, where if one enlarges any video on any web page, it goes into this $#@$@%$ mode and one can't do ANYTHING on the second monitor while the other holds the expanded movie. DUMB-ASS UI MANIPULATION. UIs are supposed to help people, not cut options. This is BS. Safari 6.1 shows us what's in our Mavericks future: More controlling and more UI changes that annoy. I like to have the news full screen on one, and work on the other. There have been some missing cursor issues, but I could work around that most of the time. With 6.1, it's impossible. Well I would have none of that, so I tried to delete the Safari 6.1 app. Guess what? A new dialog pops up telling me that Safari is now required by the Operating System to be there and can't be removed. WHAT?? This is supposed to be an app, not a system component. I looked in vain on the dev site for an uninstaller, and on a web search I found references to one, but it didn't exist anywhere. The only option was to re-install the entire system, on my machine, a two hour affair. What a PIA. Annoying. By the way, the new nightly builds of Webkit do the same shtick. so beware, I'd suggest NOT getting this version of Safari - at first glance no real new feature other than Twitter integration (whatever the hell that means), and this abdominal and irreversible bonding of the OS and the browser . sqb -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
