On Safari 3 Goodness

I came across the public beta for Safari that will be included in OS X's next upcoming release, 10.5 Leopard. I figured that the public beta had to be pretty stable at this point and decided to give it a whirl. Click the image to see an animated gif of the features.

The tab rearrange thing I've taken for granted in Firefox is available. Not a bad feature, but kind of on the boring side.

What dazzled me was Apple's remix of 'Find as you type'. Just this feature alone makes the new Safari worthwhile. If they changed nothing else, I would still be happy. The screenshot doesn't do this feature justice. As you start typing in the find box, each matched orange box makes a popping animation for each matched character. It's very cartoonish and directs your attention to the next available match.

All my annoyances are still alive and pesky as ever. To get the screenshot up, I had to use Firefox because the dialog to upload image would either be blank, or fail to upload. Also, my resumes page is as hideous as ever because Safari doesn't like microformats.