CompetitiveBrowserDevelopment/Safari-Notes: Difference between revisions

== Safari ==

* Web Browser: Safari

* Release Date: October 2007

* Direction:  

** (unofficial): allow its iPhoto digital photo cataloging application to interact with Google's Maps service.  

** Web Clip

** Manipulatable browser tabs: offers users more flexibility in the way they manage the numerous browser tabs that too often seem to multiply exponentially during a lengthy web surfing session; ability to reorder tabs through drag-and-drop; ability to drag individual tabs off an existing browser window, thus creating a fresh browser window with the contents of that tab; ability to drag tabbed windows from one Safari window to another, or ask the browser to consolidate all open windows into one, making tabs for each existing page in a single Safari browser window.

** In-page lightbox searching: in-page searching that allows users search "live" for specific search terms on any web page; find all instances of the search term right off the bat; implements the "lightbox" technique it invented for Dashboard, dimming the web page background and shinning a spotlight on the text matches.

** Resizable text areas: Web designers developing pages for Safari will no longer have to fiddle with TEXTAREA form elements in order to satisfy user requirements, while at the same time maintaining some semblence of good page design; enables a "resize" corner that allows users to resize text fields on a web page in real time, to suit their text-editing needs.