Safari is released to the world • Hacker News Board

Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by ambiguator » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 5:55 AM UTC

Don Melton, welcome to my bookmark folder.

Re: Safari is released to the world

#12

Post by cubicle67 » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 5:56 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #5

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like webkit?

Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by donmelton » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 5:59 AM UTC

bobbles wrote: post #9

So was the yelling just out of surprise that it wasnt Gecko? Or was someone pissed off that it was chosen?

Surprise, I would hope. :) And lack of recognition, I suppose.

Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by tvwonline » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:05 AM UTC

Just watched the Keynote announcement of Safari and I finally understand what 'Snapback' is (was?)

I have been using a Mac since 2005 and never figured out what it did, then I stopped noticing it was even there.

Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:06 AM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #2

The KHTML library (as wrapped by KFM) was surprisingly usable back in the day on Linux. But who'da thunk it'd turn into one of the most important pieces of code in the world? Congrats to all involved.

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Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by mokus » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:10 AM UTC

mxxx wrote: post #10

thejosh wrote: post #3

This was posted a week ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006397 And reposted 2 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026440 edit: I'm an idiot, didn't read the post properly.

Yeah there's a whole bunch of them, they're different posts. I guess a couple of the Safari team dudes have started blogging recently...

Interesting. 2003 - Safari launches. 2013 - a salvo of blogs is fired.

I'm thinking either an NDA just expired or a lot of folks are feeling nostalgic about the 10 year anniversary.

Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by lominming » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:11 AM UTC

Thanks for the story! Love to hear stories from the team when Chrome was first released.

Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by diminish » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:16 AM UTC

donmelton wrote: post #13

bobbles wrote: post #9

So was the yelling just out of surprise that it wasnt Gecko? Or was someone pissed off that it was chosen?

Surprise, I would hope. :) And lack of recognition, I suppose.

Don, i am trying to understand why you (not you in person but Apple) went the open source route for safari but not for itunes etc.

Can it be that, at that moment when you made the decision, web sites 'made for internet explorer', were too many. And you wanted the rendering engine on Mac to be widespread by getting from and giving to an open source project.

Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by defap » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:19 AM UTC

mxxx wrote: post #10

thejosh wrote: post #3

This was posted a week ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006397 And reposted 2 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5026440 edit: I'm an idiot, didn't read the post properly.

Yeah there's a whole bunch of them, they're different posts. I guess a couple of the Safari team dudes have started blogging recently...

> I guess a couple of the Safari team dudes have started blogging

Both stories are from the same person.

Re: Safari is released to the world

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Post by donmelton » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:21 AM UTC

mokus wrote: post #16

mxxx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah there's a whole bunch of them, they're different posts. I guess a couple of the Safari team dudes have started blogging recently...

Interesting. 2003 - Safari launches. 2013 - a salvo of blogs is fired. I'm thinking either an NDA just expired or a lot of folks are feeling nostalgic about the 10 year anniversary.

Neither, really. It's mostly because I retired.