also X11 Re: [WEB4LIB] New browser for the Mac

[Josh Kuperman]

It seems that MacWorld triggered a bunch of releases.  In addition to
this and perhaps ultimately though subtly more important was the
release of X11 http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ which means that every
Mac can now add functions as a Unix windows X server along with the
standard interface. i.e. Every Mac can now be a unix workstation. It
takes full advantage of the Mac specific hardware and software
acceleration. So far it has mostly attractic the attention of Fink and
Darwin users (the unix oriented who also use Macs) but with this
change I'm hoping that the entire Unix software world will be
available to Mac users and vice versa. There really haven't been Unix
laptop workstations for the cost of an iBook until now.

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:09:42AM -0800, Roy Tennant wrote:
> The Mac users among us ("the few, the proud") may be interested to know 
> about the web browser announced by Apple yesterday at MacWorld. Called 
> "Safari", it is only for OSX users (10.2 is required, but 10.2.3 will 
> provide the best performance). I've only just recently downloaded and 
> installed it, but so far their claims of snappy performance appear to 
> be true. It is quite fast, seems to display most pages I've so far 
> visited quite well, and even helped me snag a bug in my code that 
> Explorer mistakenly forgave me for. So, although it is still only a 
> "public beta", my advice to OSX 10.2 users is to run, don't walk to 
> http://www.apple.com/safari/ and get it. It's at least worth a solid 
> review, and the price is right (free).
> Roy
> 

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Josh Kuperman                       
josh at saratoga.lib.ny.us