Safari Displays Titles Properly!
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I downloaded the 10.3.2 update for Mac OS today and just noticed that Safari now displays title attributes in little ‘tool tips’ type text boxes just like other browsers. Great! That business of having them display down in the status bar just didn’t work at all because it defeated the purpose of using title to display additional information within eye-span of the reader.
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Posted to Computers • 2003.12.18 (Thu) • 23:05
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Posted by Paul Michael Smith 2003.12.18, 23:09
Cool!
I am at work but have just downloaded the Update, which will be installed when I get home. :-)
Posted by Seb 2003.12.18, 23:25
The confusing thing is, they’ve obviously updated the WebCore that Safari uses - but Safari itself is still identifying itself as 1.1.1 (v100.0).
This makes it very difficult to see what version, with what fixes, you’re actually running…
Posted by jh 2003.12.18, 23:38
Seb —- I’m seeing something slightly different in Safari’s About box: 1.1.1 (v100.1). Curious.
Posted by Reinier 2003.12.19, 00:42
I’m also seeing v100.1 in 10.3.2
Posted by Jean 2003.12.19, 00:42
That’s nice to know. I’m going to wait another day before installing the update. Ever since getting a very bad experience with an update (I think it was for 10.2.5), I now tend to wait a few days to make there are no bugs.
Posted by Jesper 2003.12.19, 04:35
Godspeed!
Posted by nick 2003.12.19, 10:49
sweet deal. does it work on everything (i.e. acronym tags)?
Posted by Randy Walker 2003.12.19, 14:50
You know, nothing says that titles have to be displayed in tooltips… but it’s nice that Safari’s fitting in so well with the upperclassmen :)
Posted by Charles Gerungan 2003.12.19, 16:54
Of course that is true, but what else would be the use of the title attribute, as the big bad browser doesn’t even have the status bar on by default (where some browsers display it). I find the tooltip very useful as the title attribute pops up right where I’m looking. Finally one of the things I missed most in Safari are enabled, yeah!
Posted by riccard0 2003.12.20, 02:29
“does it work on everything (i.e. acronym tags)?”
Yes, it does.
Posted by losmadden 2003.12.20, 05:55
Now if they’d just increase the tab options (let you move them, reorder them, combine windows, etc.) and let you import bookmarks after the initial install, we’d be all set.
Posted by Tommy H. 2003.12.20, 07:48
Nice. I hadn’t noticed. :D
Posted by Adam 2003.12.20, 12:46
I notice in your picture, the titlebox doesn’t have a shadow behind it. Mine does, and it has the same attributes as another window (distance, opacity, etc), which is obviously far too much for such a small little box. Any ideas as to how to make this go away?
BTW, love your photos.
Posted by jh 2003.12.20, 12:59
Adam —- Sounds like you have a newer Mac than me. ;-)
What you’re seeing is Quartz Extreme in action, I believe. This is the same thing that puts the slight drop shadow below the pointer. My machine can run Panther just fine but the graphics card isn’t good enough to support Quartz Extreme, so I don’t get the shadow business.
I don’t know if there are utilities that disable the shadow or otherwise let you tweak the QE effects, but macupdate.com or versiontracker.com would be good places to check. It may also be possible to do this through the command line —- the very wonderful (macosxhints.com may provide advice.
Posted by kraml 2003.12.20, 23:55
I didn’t notice the change—because on my 500 MHz Mac it takes 2 full seconds for the tool tip to appear!
Posted by kraml 2003.12.20, 23:57
By the way, my 500MHz Cube only has 16MB of video RAM, and supposedly cannot support Jaguar and Panther Quartz Extreme, but I’m getting the soft dropshadow.
Posted by kraml 2003.12.21, 00:01
How did you take the screen capture?—Grab won’t show the tool tip.
Posted by jh 2003.12.21, 00:22
Snapz Pro from Ambrosia Software. State of the art screen captures. ;-)
Posted by Joshua Kaufman 2003.12.29, 21:38
This is the best Christmas present I received. No, seriously.
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