{"id":507,"date":"2009-02-24T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2009-02-24T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:42:19","slug":"apple-safari-4-beta-initial-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/apple-safari-4-beta-initial-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Safari 4 beta: Initial Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-508\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/safari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-508\" title=\"safari\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/safari-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"safari\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/safari-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/safari.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Apple has just released the beta version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\" target=\"_blank\">Safari 4<\/a>. They are calling it the &#8220;world&#8217;s fastest web browser.&#8221; When I told my co-worker that, his response was, &#8220;Even faster than Google Chrome?&#8221; \u00a0Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\" target=\"_blank\">Google Chrome<\/a> is not out yet for the Mac I can&#8217;t do a fair comparison.\u00a0 I would say that sites do render way faster in Safari 4 than in any other browser.\u00a0 It is still in beta.\u00a0 Even I found a bug while writing this post.\u00a0 I actually had to switch back to Firefox because I couldn&#8217;t do some things in my editor.\u00a0 One thing that I miss in Firefox and Chrome that all versions of Safari are missing is the ability to just quickly go to a particular tab.\u00a0 For example, on a Mac, if I have six tabs open in Firefox, if I&#8217;m on the first tab and I want to go to the forth tab, all I have to do is press &#8216;Command + 4&#8217; and I&#8217;m there.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have to click on the tab with my mouse or Ctrl-tab my way to the forth tab.\u00a0 Remember, the keyboard is always faster than the mouse.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll do a post on my keyboard shortcuts one day.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, once again&#8230; if you are still using Internet Explorer 6, please upgrade.\u00a0 Actually, if you are using Internet Explorer, my question is&#8230; why?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari are the way go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has just released the beta version of Safari 4. They are calling it the &#8220;world&#8217;s fastest web browser.&#8221; When I told my co-worker that, his response was, &#8220;Even faster than Google Chrome?&#8221; \u00a0Since Google Chrome is not out yet for the Mac I can&#8217;t do a fair comparison.\u00a0 I would say that sites do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}