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November 10, 2003

Camino Out, Enter Safari

I will give Camino 2 weeks, as of today, to release a new version, otherwise I will switch my main browser to Safari.

Posted by Can Sar at November 10, 2003 06:14 PM to category Apple & Mac OS X | TrackBack
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No!!! Use the snapshots; I've been using them and they work fine.

Posted by Michael on November 10, 2003 09:32 PM

Dude, a new version comes out every night. There's nothing magical about somebody slapping a 0.8 on the about line. If you're still sitting with the official 0.7 release (from what, March?) because it's "official", well, whatever.

Posted by on November 12, 2003 04:11 PM

I am actually running yesterday's nightly build now. I usually stay with the release versions because I like stability because I write long blog entries and often don't save. :-)
Unfortunately there is nothing in the new nightly build that I find particularly exciting, and I hope that Camino will start using standard Cocoa text fields soon so that Spell-Checking works.

Posted by Can on November 12, 2003 04:24 PM

So you really wanted to say, "I will give Camino 2 weeks, starting now, to implement native text fields or I will use Safari."

Or perhaps, "I will give Camino 2 weeks, starting now, to implement something I find particularly exciting, or I will use Safari."

2 words: open source.

longer explanation: if you want something done, do it yourself. that's how community projects like Camino/Mozilla work. Somebody contributes, everybody benefits.

I can't decide if you'd be a number 1 or 2 on David Hyatt's list of bug guilt trips.

Posted by on November 13, 2003 12:29 PM

First of all changing this in Camino would mean rewriting the entire architecture, and I do not believe that one single developer could do that, or make them change this.
Also as a user I just do not see why I should use Camino over Safari. I encourage everyone to use Camino if they like it and hope it continues to exist, it's a great browser. But I don't have the time to work on a browser if a different one that I like already exists.
I was wondering, are you a Camino developer? What is going on development-wise, what are they working on?

Posted by Can on November 15, 2003 03:56 PM
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