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Blogger Dan Shafer thinks so.

Dan notes:

" I'm a MacFanatic... But there is one point at which I have always been critical of Apple and that is when it creates application software....

"If I'm an independent software developer, it takes a lot to convince me to write an application for the 3%-market-share Macintosh rather than for the 97% behemoth. To do so entails significant risk on my part. But I love the platform so I just do it. Then Apple, in its infinite stupidiy, comes out with a competing product at a lower price point and bundles it, leaving me out in the cold. Is it any wonder that the number of Mac software developers doesn't grow?

"That's what Apple just did. Its new Web browser, Safari, appears to be a wonderful piece of software. But what about iCab? What about Opera's Mac support? What about my favorite browser, Chimera (Mozilla-based for Mac)? Where's the incentive for these folks to continue to develop their software for the Mac platform only to have the chair pulled out from under them by the very company they are interested in helping?"

Good question.

When the safari browser was announced at macWorld Expo, one of my first thoughts was to wonder what it might due to Mac development of other browsers. So far, the OS X Mail app. doesn't seem to have harmed third-party email client development interest -- there are more email applications available for the Mac than ever, but only about 20 percent of the installed Mac user base has switched to OS X so far. iTunes, on the other hand, killed off the previously best Mac MP3 player, Casady and Green's,SoundJam (on which iTunes was based), although some worthy indie alternatives such as Audion and Cabrio are still available.

It will be interesting to see what happens. I hope that Safari will mainly displace Internet Explorer, and that Mozilla, Netscape, Chimera, iCab, OmniWeb, and Opera continue to develop browsers for the Mac. However, Mozilla recently terminated development of the Mozilla browser for the Classic Mac OS (before the Safari announcement), which is not an auspicious precedent. Dan Shafer may have a valid point.

Safari Enhancer 1.1 Activates Safari Hidden Features

Safari Enhancer is a programme for enabling several hidden features of the Safari webbrowser beta.
Among the things enabled are a debugging menu that allows you to do such things as enabling keyboard and mouse shortcuts, changing what browser Safari identifies itself as, and changing how Safari handles Security. Safari also lets you specifiy a minimum font size, as well as allowing you to turn off underlines on links and handling direct bookmark importing from Netscape, Internet Explorer, Chimera, Mozilla, OmniWeb, and iCab.

New in this version:
• FullScreenSafari.ape compatibility
• Basic in-program documentation
 
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
 
Safari Enhancer is freeware  

For more information, visit:
http://gordon.sourcecod.com/sites/safari_enhancer.php

SafariMasks 1.0 Safari Theme Editor
 
SSafariMasks was made to customize the look of Safari - Apple's new turbo web browser for Mac OS X. With SafariMasks you don't have to settle with Apple's navigation buttons.

Simply choose a new theme from our list and click install. Within seconds you can have a brand new theme to use when surfing the web. It's that simple.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• Safari public beta
 
SafariMasks is $10.00 shareware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.waterfallsw.com/products/safarimasks/

SafariCookieCutter 0.8 Cookie editor For Safari Web Browser
 
SafariCookieCutter is a simple cookie editor for Apple's new Safari Web browser. Since the public beta version of Safari does not come with any integrated cookie editor, this program was made to fulfill this need.

Cookies are persistent objects stored on your computer by the Web browser. Web servers use them to save data between sessions and then query the data back later. Cookies have some positive uses, such as remembering user names and passwords, but they can also be used for some sites (usually advertisers) to track your Web surfing habits. Cookie editors facilitate adding cookies to the system, and removing the ones you don't want.

System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
 
For more information, visit:
http://dreamless.home.attbi.com/scc.html

Safari German Language File 0.9.6 German localization for Safari

Das Programm um Safari einzudeutschen findet Ihr unter Downloads!

Noch im Aufbau, hier aber schonmal das von mir erstellte deutsche Language File für Safari

Achtung!
Da die Bookmark Bar in Bookmarkleiste und das Bookmark Menu in Bookmarkmenü umbenannt werden, erstellt Safari 2 neue Ordner mit den englischen Namen in der Bookmarkcollection (im Browser, nicht im Finder!).
Den Inhalt dieser Ordner einfach in die deutschen ziehen und schon ist wieder alles beim alten!

Safari dt. (Version 0.9.5) 11.1.03 01:19

Neu ab Version 0.9.5:
• Zweiten Englisch.lproj Ordner übersetzt im
Safari > Contents > Frameworks > WebKit.framework > Versions > A > Resources Ordner
Dieser German.lproj Ordner übersetzt die Kontext Menüs und einige Script Dialoge. (Danke an Dominik für den Hinweis)
Dadurch wird die Installation leider wieder etwas aufwendiger, deshalb hab ich das Readme geändert.
Wer Lust hat, mir zu helfen, einen Installer für GermanSafari zu schreiben, melde sich bitte an untenstehende Email-Adresse.

New in this version:
• neu ab 0.9.6:
• Sogar noch besseres bzw. einfacheres Installationsprogramm!!! (Danke an NEXUS)
• Bookmarks endlich im ganzen Programm in Lesezeichen umbenannt, nachdem sehr viele Anfragen dazu kamen (an Updater von frueheren Versionen: nicht vergessen die "Lesezeichen" wieder zu verschieben!)
• Tooltips verbessert
• Noch einen English.lproj Ordner uebersetzt!
• Stop in _Stopp_ umgewandelt
 
System requirements:
• Safari
 
Safari German Language File is freeware  
   
For more information, visit:
http://www.isafari.de/

Safari Italian Localization 1.0a2 Safari For Italian Users

Claudio Mussolin dello Staff AMUG Sicilia annuncia la localizzazione di Safari in Italiano :o) Potete scaricare il file all'indirizzo

http://www.amugsicilia.it/safari_Iita.dmg.sit

si tratta di un work in progress iniziale, ci sono da perfezionare ancora
alcuni particolari, ma vi terremo aggiornati! Segnalate pure eventuali problemi, suggerimenti ed impressioni qui

A tempo di record Claudio Mussolin ci consegna un aggiornamento della localizzazione di Safari in Italiano. Tra le principali modifiche:

Corretto l'errore che impediva la ricerca all'interno di un documento
Migliorata la traduzione di alcune voci
Completata la traduzione del pannello di segnalazione degli errori
Completata la traduzione del pannello dei cookies
Aggiornata la traduzione del pannello delle attività
 
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• Safari 0.8 or higher
 
Safari Italian Localization is freeware  
   
For more information, visit:
http://www.amugsicilia.it/pages/news/index.html

Safari Czech Language 0.9.8 Czech language localization for Safari

Soubory pro lokalizaci betaverze internetoveho prohlizece Safari od Apple Computer.
 
New in this version:
• Dokoncena lokalizace standardniho UI. Nabidka Debug a jeji polozky jsou ponechany v originalni verzi. Kompatibilni se Safari v51 (z 10.1.2003).
 
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
• Safari
 
Safari Czech Language is freeware  

For more information, visit:
http://www.melodyworld.info/

Charles W. Moore