Safari 4 Beta

By drc at Thu, Feb 26 2009 2:32am |

I see Apple have released the beta test version of Safari I just thought it would be useful to keep track of any problems for scientific applications.

To start off Safari breaks Xcode. If you are using the 3.0 version of Xcode, you will find that it crashes on launch once you have downloaded the Safari 4 beta. Just head over to the Apple Developer Connection to download version 3.1.2 of Xcode that works fine.

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Thu, 2009-02-26 05:49 — drc

Molecular display

JMOL
http://jmol.sourceforge.net/
MARVIN
http://www.chemaxon.com/marvin/examples/index.html
CHEMDRAW
http://www.cambridgesoft.com/services/DesktopSupport/Documentation/ChemDrawPlugin/

all seem to work fine.

Thu, 2009-02-26 09:07 — Doug

Why can't they make SVG work how it's supposed to?

This might seem a little off-topic, but is a "scientific application" that I would like to work -

I thought that for sure the new Safari 4 update would have made it possible to embed svg files in a web page that are actually SCALABLE. They must now know what the "S" stands for in SVG. Firefox has figured it out. But in Safari, embed an SVG with smaller dimensions than what it was originally created with and Safari will just cut it off. Firefox rescales it.

Why is this such a big deal? Because I would like to be able to share scientific research results in the form of resolution-independent plots and I would like to do this in a web page. Rasterizing is not an option, and pdf is a pain (need a separate viewer and cannot display content inline with the rest of the web page).

Thu, 2009-02-26 14:23 — jefff

SVG, Xcode, Uninstall

Yeah, I really want scalability put in there too. That said, I noticed that Safari 4 does a worse job with several SVG aspects than Safari 3 did, for some reason. Firefox does a much worse job with SVG than Safari in many ways, though it does some scaling. I think we're all just in a waiting period for any browser to finally do a more complete job with SVG. I imagine implementation of the SVG spec must be a bear or it'd be done right somewhere by now.

I just uninstalled Safari 4 Beta for a various set of reasons, my SVG needs included. Some things are better, but it's certainly beta software.

BTW, I noticed Apple posted a note today about Xcode 3.0, saying that it's a known issue and that you have to upgrade Xcode to 3.1.2, which might not be bad advice anyway.

Sat, 2009-03-28 08:06 — Archiblog

SVG files

@Doug

Thanks for the tip about Firefox rescaling SVG files.