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small drawbacks, otherwise just perfect
Authored by: hessi on Sep 08, '04 07:15:20PM

Yes, you are right, OW5 is really worth a Pick of the Week.

I'm also not sure about the tabs, on my 12" iBook, it just takes too much space.
One really good thing you haven't mentioned, especially compared to Safari, is that OW5 is able to reload a bunch of tabs and you are still able to switch between them. With Safari, sometimes even while reloading only one tab, but most of the time while reloading the second one, you only see the disc and can't do anything for a long time. Not good.

However, there are a few drawbacks:

- rendering and compatibility: Two of my favourite websites look a little weired in OW (http://www.boxer-forum.de) or simply don't work (http://epaper.sueddeutsche.de). Same with GMail, "Loading..." , that's it.
- opening an article of an rss-feed through the dock (right-click on icon, choose feed, choose article) seems to be only possible in a new window, not in a new tab?
- checkboxes aren't included in the keyboard-tabs. If I enter username and password on a site and would like to set a checkbox "set cookie", i can't get the focus on the checkbox via tab.

These are the only drawbacks I found so far, and this is not enough bad stuff, so yes, I am considering buying a license.



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small drawbacks, otherwise just perfect
Authored by: hessi on Sep 08, '04 07:26:39PM

well, I am impressed.
I just wrote pretty much the same stuff I wrote here as a feedback to Omni, and 10 minutes later, I got an answer.

- boxer-forum.de: fixed in 5.1

- sueddeutsche.de: doesn't work in Safari either, seems to be a bug in WebCore (yes, he's right. I use Camino for this page, unfortunately Apple doesn't respond to feedback as Omni does)

- rss in new tab: seems to be on the todo-list, but might be tough to implement and take some time

- checkboxes: fixed in 5.1

Well, it is worth buying their stuff just for their support-team ...



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