Comments on: Safari 3.1 Released

By: jamiefishback

jamiefishback — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:15:17 +0000

Safari 3.1 completely changed the location object, it is now no longer under the window, it is it’s own global object. completely hosed my stuff!!!

By: JonathanLeech

JonathanLeech — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:00:03 +0000

@kim3er: Take a look at the URL you posted, http://webkit.org/blog/138/css-animation/ on an iPhone with 2.0, or using the iPhone simulator.

By: chenghong

chenghong — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:33:57 +0000

@Anonymous: As far as I can tell, it wasn’t custom tailored. It is just an older ‘official’ version published by mootools themselves. The new version is also available at http://www.domassistant.com/slickspeed-alt/. Again, the results are pretty consistent with other major libraries.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:02:18 +0000

@chenghong That’s because the slickspeed test on DOMAssistants domain is a custom tailored one. Use the ‘official’ latest version to testdrive the library, and you’ll see what I mean (also, results differ depending on which browser you’re testing with).

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:53:21 +0000

PSA: Safari 3.1 seems to have removed keypress event firing for backspace and delete keys. Much to my frustration!

By: chenghong

chenghong — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:40:50 +0000

@Anonymous: The slickspeed test can be found here but I don't see any incorrect results.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:15:35 +0000

That should be: DOMAssistants selectors

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:14:23 +0000

Man is it me or did the js engine get a huge speed boost with this new version :)

@chenghong DOMAssistants may be fast, but aren’t very reliable (which is easily verified by adding DOMAssistant to the latest slickspeed test).

By: Dan G. Switzer, II

Dan G. Switzer, II — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:28:25 +0000

It still doesn’t handle :hover and adjacent sibling selectors correctly…

http://blog.pengoworks.com/index.cfm/2008/3/17/Safari-CSS-hover-and-Adjacent-Sibling-Selector-Bug

By: chenghong

chenghong — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:15:28 +0000

@remy: DOMAssistant supports querySelectorAll and native getElementsByClassName since version 2.6 :-)

By: p01

p01 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:00:32 +0000

Nice changelog.

Too bad their Canvas implementation is still way behind that of Opera and Firefox : No imageData, no prototype exposed for CanvasRenderingContext2D, no setTransformation. :’(

By: musicfreak

musicfreak — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:39:40 +0000

This is great news, especially querySelector. I need to update my library to sniff that out and use it whenever possible.

By: Dylan Schiemann

Dylan Schiemann — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:28:01 +0000

remy: we do exactly that for Dojo.

By: remy

remy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:17:25 +0000

Worth also pointing out that Safari 3.1 also supports the following:

* querySelector and querySelectorAll support
* Native getElementsByClassName support

I’m keen to see what the library authors think of sniffing for this feature and use querySelectorAll in place of their selector method.

By: kim3er

kim3er — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:02:29 +0000

Have a look at the following URL in your new Safari 3.1 browser. Very cool!

http://webkit.org/blog/138/css-animation/

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:44:06 +0000

Nevermind. Apparently double-clicking on computed style rules doesn’t work, but double clicking on style rules listed as from some stylesheet does. Neat!

Sorry for the multiple posts…

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:37:00 +0000

Okay, I downloaded the update and can’t for the life of me figure out how to edit live CSS.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:21:28 +0000

They could have had me with simply the ability to edit CSS in the inspector. Gah, this is awesome. And here I thought Safari updates were forever relegated to OS X updates (either .x or .x.-1 releases).