Safari 3 beta impressions

Published: June 14, 2007, 4:27 pm

As I noted the other day in Safari now officially available for Windows, Apple has released a public beta of Safari 3 for Mac OS X and Windows. I've been using the beta since then, both in my primary working environment, which is Mac OS X, and on Windows XP, which I use for browser testing. Here are my impressions so far. New features Safari 3 contains a number of new features that are either useful to the casual web surfer, great tools for web developers, or more or less eye candy. Here's what I've noticed so far: Clickable form labels. A long overdue feature that has been in most other browsers forever is that you can click on a form controls associated label text to activate the control. This is most useful for radio buttons and checkboxes since it makes the clickable area much larger. It does require that forms have been marked up correctly though. Web Inspector. Not as powerful as the Firebug extension for Firefox is, but still very useful for troubleshooting and

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