[TETENAL]

The long awaited iCab 3.0 is now finally available as public beta!

http://www.icab.de/dl.php

[ManOfSteal]

How does it compare with Safari RSS?

[TETENAL]

It's at least as fast as Safari 2.0 and rendering is correct on any site I have been visiting so far. Looks very good.

Here's the Acid2 test:

http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html

The iCab disk image also comes with many CSS test files where Safari fails but iCab handles the CSS correctly.

[Millennium]

Nice. So now three browsers pass: Safari, KHTML (which actually was able to use some of the WebCore patches in the end), and iCab. All are in beta, but you can actually get the betas for KHTML and Opera (not Safari, though).

Odd, though, that the ones passing first are the little guys. IE is IE, of course, but what is taking Gecko and Opera so long? This has got to be one heck of an embarrassment to them, these these minor browsers have gotten their act together so quickly.

[F_Elz]

My Safari in Tiger doesn't pass the test

[brutal]

Can someone fill me in on iCab? I've never actually used it.. How does it compare to other browsers like Safari and Firefox?

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by F_Elz

My Safari in Tiger doesn't pass the test

No publicly available browser passes the test yet, but the Safari, iCab and Konquerer teams have development versions that do. The public iCab 3.0 beta has the best result in the Acid2 test I have seen so far.

brutal, you can read abou the iCab advantages here http://icab.de/info.html or download it and give it a try.

[angelmb]

Alexander Clauss rules !

[workerbee]

Been using iCab 3 beta for about half a year now -- it's quite nice.
However, I find that it still crashes an awful lot on JavaScript-heavy pages, and that pages with lots of data (extremely long tables in the 300k + range) quickly bring it to its knees. Also, somehow when a page has difficulties loading an element (e.g. a style sheet or an external .js file), nothing else will get loaded in any other open icab document window.
But then, it's still beta... how shocking it will be when one day iCab finally will go out of Beta, I can only start to imagine (pigs flying, hell freezing, PentiuMacs...)

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

No publicly available browser passes the test yet, but the Safari, iCab and Konquerer teams have development versions that do. The public iCab 3.0 beta has the best result in the Acid2 test I have seen so far.

brutal, you can read abou the iCab advantages here http://icab.de/info.html or download it and give it a try.

I can not live without iCab Search Functions, see a text field in a webpage?, right clic and add to the internet search function, so I can write in the address field:

g iCab -> does a search for iCab on google

G iCab -> does a search for iCab on google images

m iCab -> does a search for iCab on macupdate

v iCab -> does a search for iCab on version tracker

a cook -> does a search for cook books, dvds… on amazon

i starwars -> does a search for starwars on imdb.com

e whatever -> does a search for whatever on eBay

and so on…

you just choose the letter to associate with the engine and you are done, it is fantastic.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Is it still ugly?

[brutal]

Originally Posted by angelmb

I can not live without iCab Search Functions, see a text field in a webpage?, right clic and add to the internet search function, so I can write in the address field:

g iCab -> does a search for iCab on google

G iCab -> does a search for iCab on google images

m iCab -> does a search for iCab on macupdate

v iCab -> does a search for iCab on version tracker

a cook -> does a search for cook books, dvds… on amazon

i starwars -> does a search for starwars on imdb.com

e whatever -> does a search for whatever on eBay

and so on…

you just choose the letter to associate with the engine and you are done, it is fantastic.

Both Firefox and Omniweb does this too. You can even make Safari do this by installing Saft.

[F_Elz]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Is it still ugly?

Same UI yea.

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by brutal

Both Firefox and Omniweb does this too. You can even make Safari do this by installing Saft.

Is it like 'SafariStand' search options?

[yukon]

Nice, I'm still using iCab mainly on the G4, Camino on the side for the sites that use new web languages I don't like.

Still in beta though....Nice to see it's public now, but I was somehow expecting the beta release to be private and the full release to soon follow, not the beta release to come out quite a while later (apparently) unchanged. I'm disappointed with that, but it's nice to see the new stuff working so well, perhaps my G4 might become my browsing machine of choice again (right now it's Firefox on Windows), compatibility and speed.