"The new Safari browser is better than speed"

As early as this year, we saw an article like this in CnBeta: the new version of Safari is better than speed. Although the title seems to admire Safari4, it is said that Safari4's innovation and improvement only speed. The author of the original article repeatedly talked about copying Chrome. So I want to talk about the purpose and Innovation of safari4.

1. Safari always wins by speed, but Chrome is inserted in the middle, so it is not surprising that Safari4 is ahead of other browsers in terms of speed. Apple's team has been exploring technical improvements.

2. the combination of the label bar and the title bar allows users with smaller screens to obtain a larger page reading area. However, note that the label bar replaces the title bar, safari4 is not just a replacement of position. When you double-click a tag, you can maximize the window. When you move the mouse to the corner of the tag, press and hold the drag symbol to drag the tag and change the position. These two points may be confusing to many users who have used Chrome. In fact, the advantage of doing so is that when the window is restored from the maximum, there can be a larger reading area, instead of a blank title bar for dragging and maximizing. In particular, when activating the current tag, you can see a complete tag title, rather than a few words that are equal to the size of all tags. This is a feature that replaces the title bar in the tag bar, you must specify the title of the current tag. The author of the original article mentioned that this improvement is difficult to use on "crowded" computer screens, which is obviously self-contradictory.

3. the other point is the disappearance of the loading progress bar. Apple said that because complex page elements cannot be accurately captured, the loading progress cannot be accurately provided, but this function is selected, if it does not provide a valid reference function, it can be removed, but I share the same view with the original author, that is, the user does not need to accurately grasp the loading progress, with a rough estimate, users can grasp the loading level during use. Maybe Apple idealizes the global network environment and regards it as the loading speed of Safari4, which is almost negligible.

4. There are many differences between the Top Sites of Safari4 and similar functions provided by other browsers. When you enter this tab, the first thing you see is a deep visual space, which looks much more comfortable than tiled windows. This page is highly customized. When you click Edit in the lower left corner, you can see that you can choose to close or fix the upper left corner of Each snapshot. You can also drag unfixed snapshots to any location, click "Small-Medium-Large" in the lower-right corner to switch between several snapshots. In addition, an asterisk (*) appears in the upper-right corner of a page snapshot that has been updated, indicating that the page has been updated, rather than quietly updating itself like Some browsers, the user does not even know which pages are updated. In addition, there is a history search box in the lower-right corner of the page. Click it to see the snapshot rendering. The history CoverFlow browsing method makes browsing and searching more intuitive. The author of the original article said that this function exists in iTunes itself, so there is no innovation. Adding the functions of another product to a new field is itself an innovation.

5. enter text in the address bar of Safari4 to list the "most frequently-clicked", "History", and "only available in bookmarks" in sequence. Are there any other browsers? Move your eyes to the right side of the search box to see what looks like. Enter the content you want to search for and list the search recommendations, recent searches, and websites. You can also search on the page, are these items available in other browsers?

Therefore, the evaluation of a product should not be one-sided to see its shortcomings, but should explore the purpose and details of its improvement, and objectively evaluate a product as a respect for designers, it is also a respect for readers. Of course, each product has its shortcomings, but the highlights of improvement should not be ignored. As a designer, each design item has been repeatedly reviewed. This is why some network products need to go through several testing stages. Currently, Safari4 is still in Public Beta, if you think there are some problems in some aspects, click the "bug" button next to the search bar to submit your problems and suggestions for modification to Apple, to improve a comfortable product.

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