Safari 4 Beta is half-baked and fused with confusing UI
Greetings guys, I'm back. I could not stop me from the lure of World Wide Web, my bad. I was just going through my subscribed feeds in Google Reader yesterday and announcement of Safari 4 Beta caught my eyes. First screenshots and early reviews were positive and mostly based on Mac OS X version of the browser. Since I don’t have my hackintosh installation handy at that moment, I went on downloading Windows version and installed on Windows 7 Beta.
I was taken aback by the results. Seriously, how can Apple make such crap after spending so many nice years with Mac et al. Believe me or not, Safari 4 is purely a piece of nice looking shit on my Windows 7 installation. I don’t know why, but unfortunately two most revered features, ‘Top Sites’ and ‘Cover Flow’ does not work and just shows huge black screens. Adding 'Cover Flow' to almost everything is the latest Apple trend, even one of my Macboy friends says,
When Apple runs out of ideas for new features to add to an application, they add Cover Flow to it.
They tried to ‘borrow’ heavily from Google Chrome and created something that is way bad looking even from its previous version. Gone are the neat, clean and suave looks of Safari, current version is hollow form of flattery. I don’t even understand why Apple went on copying from Chrome as the end result is as bad as IE5 in Mac OS X. While Google Chrome still retains a lovely clean look and feel, Safari 4 is best left alone.
Performance is also a mixed bag, while some JavaScript based sites opened faster than Minefield 3.2Pre, there are disappointments too. CSS Animation and passing Acid 3 test are the only two things I liked about this version. On the other hand, Safari 4 beta can even put shame on Firefox’s face for being resource heavy; it’s a damned resource clogging behemoth.
