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Sorry! We're not trying to hide, really, we've... 7,169 Views / 116 Replies  
Sorry! We're not trying to hide, really, we've just been very, very busy.

You can expect a public sneaky peek build soon.
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 11, 2006 at 05:32 PM, in Applications
OmniWeb 5.1.2 is right around the corner (we... 3,977 Views / 63 Replies  
OmniWeb 5.1.2 is right around the corner (we should have a beta out this week), but the bulk of OmniWeb's development time is currently going towards moving to WebKit for OmniWeb 5.5.
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Sep 13, 2005 at 11:25 PM, in Applications
The biggest change for 5.1 beta 4 (now available)... 41,646 Views / 520 Replies  
The biggest change for 5.1 beta 4 (now available) is improved cache behavior.
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Nov 18, 2004 at 10:51 PM, in Applications
We loved working with Manny and I think he... 66,229 Views / 937 Replies  
We loved working with Manny and I think he enjoyed working here, but his passion lies elsewhere (http://georgetownbeer.com/about/) and he left to pursue it.
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Aug 11, 2004 at 05:18 PM, in Applications
http://people.omnigroup.com/kc/OmniWeb%205%20box/I... 66,229 Views / 937 Replies  
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Posted by Ken at Omni, on Aug 11, 2004 at 04:50 PM, in Applications
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Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jun 23, 2002 at 11:46 AM, in Applications
Sorry to spoil your fun, but there really isn't... 1,219 Views / 72 Replies  
Sorry to spoil your fun, but there really isn't anything that exciting about the delay. (It's even less wild than the "least wild" possibility mentioned by cpac.)

The explanation is actually...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jun 23, 2002 at 03:26 AM, in Applications
We did: look for... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
We did: look for "OAScrollWheelTargetScrollFactor" in the release notes. If you find an acceleration curve (flat or not) that you like better than the current default, please do let us know!
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 6, 2002 at 07:12 PM, in Applications
Absolutely! But, hmm, it does for me: When... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
Absolutely! But, hmm, it does for me:

When I do a "Check for Updates..." right now (power's still out at Omni), OmniWeb immediately pops up an alert panel which says "Unable to check for new...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 5, 2002 at 12:01 AM, in Applications
In case you were wondering what happened to us... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
In case you were wondering what happened to us (no e-mail or web access to omnigroup.com, phone lines dead), the construction workers working on the building next door left a crane unsecured when...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 4, 2002 at 10:32 PM, in Applications
For our next release, the mouse acceleration is... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
For our next release, the mouse acceleration is greatly toned down. (It now starts off at half the beta 1 speed, and only works its way up to 1.5x the beta 1 speed.)

It's also now completely...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 4, 2002 at 03:05 AM, in Applications
In my trivial test case, it doesn't do this in... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
In my trivial test case, it doesn't do this in sp49. Are you using a different release, or can you point me at a test case where it doesn't work in sp49?

Thanks!

[ 02-27-2002: Message edited...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 27, 2002 at 02:42 PM, in Applications
There isn't a persistent cache, which is part of... 439 Views / 1 Replies  
There isn't a persistent cache, which is part of the reason people on slow net connections without any other caching mechanism (like a caching proxy server) find OmniWeb to be much slower than people...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 21, 2002 at 12:35 PM, in Applications
It sounds to me like what you're actually... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
It sounds to me like what you're actually concerned about isn't 1x1 images (those can be useful on a site), but "web bugs": resources that are loaded from another site, allowing the other site to...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 10, 2002 at 10:39 PM, in Applications
Sorry if our priorities weren't clear: while we... 1,163 Views / 33 Replies  
Sorry if our priorities weren't clear: while we did comment on tabbed browsing and save to PDF (saying, in effect, "Sorry, no time to do that in 4.1, maybe in 5.0"), what we've actually been working...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 10, 2002 at 10:32 PM, in Applications
Woops, looks like we lost the cellpadding on... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
Woops, looks like we lost the cellpadding on table cells in this release. We'll fix it.
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 7, 2002 at 12:06 AM, in Applications
Rather than turning off CSS altogether, just set... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
Rather than turning off CSS altogether, just set the minimum and maximum font sizes in OmniWeb's Font & Color Preferences.



We chose to use the exact same cascading behavior as Mail and Text...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 6, 2002 at 05:58 PM, in Applications
Absolutely! As the lead developer on OmniWeb I... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
Absolutely! As the lead developer on OmniWeb I consider any crashes unacceptable, and I think we did fairly well on that front for OmniWeb 4.0 when it shipped. I'm currently working to eliminate...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 3, 2002 at 02:02 PM, in Applications
Cocoa's standard color panel does this, just... 516 Views / 5 Replies  
Cocoa's standard color panel does this, just bring up the Color panel (if you're in OmniWeb right now, type Shift-Command-C) and click on the magnifying glass at the bottom.

(Though no, it doesn't...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 1, 2002 at 02:47 AM, in Applications
Sounds like you might be using the older version... 503 Views / 2 Replies  
Sounds like you might be using the older version of ICeCoffEE? The version of ICeCoffEE released on Monday fixed this problem.
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jan 31, 2002 at 03:17 AM, in Applications
Could what you're seeing be unsmoothed Lucida? ... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
Could what you're seeing be unsmoothed Lucida? That sounds like about the time frame in which we got the "Smooth text larger than 'n' points" preference working again: before that release, we were...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jan 29, 2002 at 02:28 PM, in Applications
I spent some time browsing around eBay after... 427 Views / 4 Replies  
I spent some time browsing around eBay after reading this, and I can't seem to reproduce this problem. If you have a specific recipe for crashing OmniWeb (i.e. "go to this page, click on this link,...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jan 28, 2002 at 09:59 PM, in Applications
The old 4.0 cache preferences were irrelevant,... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
The old 4.0 cache preferences were irrelevant, because that's not the way the cache works in 4.1. What exact changes were you wanting to make to the default behavior of the cache?

(Note that...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jan 25, 2002 at 04:10 PM, in Applications
Hide the toolbar, and you'll note this is no... 26,151 Views / 1,656 Replies  
Hide the toolbar, and you'll note this is no longer the case. The problem is that Java isn't using Quartz to transform its coordinates, and doesn't understand that it's supposed to leave room for...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jan 25, 2002 at 04:04 PM, in Applications
The keyboard scrolling speed all depends on your... 11,208 Views / 858 Replies  
The keyboard scrolling speed all depends on your key repeat rate (set in System Preferences): every time OmniWeb receives an arrow key event, it scrolls the window a fixed distance (the same...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Dec 17, 2001 at 03:21 PM, in Applications
That page is requesting (via a meta tag) that we... 551 Views / 4 Replies  
That page is requesting (via a meta tag) that we switch to the UTF-16 (2-byte Unicode) character set, but that's not the correct encoding for the page. (It then attempts to ask that we switch back...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Oct 12, 2001 at 03:24 AM, in Applications
OmniWeb UI slow in Graphite 556 Views / 4 Replies  
If you're using OmniWeb in Graphite appearance, try switching your appearance to Blue: you'll find it gets much more responsive.

(I've fixed this bug for the next release, but thought I'd let...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Aug 10, 2001 at 06:49 PM, in Applications
Omni is hiring a tech support person 498 Views / 4 Replies  
As some of you have undoubtedly noticed, we've been completely overwhelmed with the volume of mail we've been receiving since the release of Mac OS X, which means that messages to addresses like...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jul 8, 2001 at 03:06 PM, in Applications
Thanks, I'll look into it! (If you have a... 626 Views / 34 Replies  
Thanks, I'll look into it! (If you have a specific page in the web reference library--or anywhere else, for that matter--that you've noticed renders slowly in OmniWeb, it'd be great if you could...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jun 26, 2001 at 11:40 AM, in Applications
(Oops, I forgot to log in before posting. Yes,... 626 Views / 34 Replies  
(Oops, I forgot to log in before posting. Yes, that last message was me.)
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Jun 20, 2001 at 12:15 PM, in Applications
Look in Font & Color Preferences for the "Smooth... 1,247 Views / 72 Replies  
Look in Font & Color Preferences for the "Smooth text larger than n points" setting. Enter a new value, and restart OmniWeb. (Sadly, we can't reconfigure that part of Apple's text system on the...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on May 1, 2001 at 12:48 AM, in Applications
We'll work with Apple to try to resolve this, but... 1,247 Views / 72 Replies  
We'll work with Apple to try to resolve this, but there probably isn't much we can do about this: We just load Apple's QuickTime plug-in and tell it to run. I'm not sure why it doesn't work, our...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on May 1, 2001 at 12:30 AM, in Applications
OmniWeb 4.0rc1 is available 1,247 Views / 72 Replies  
OmniWeb 4.0 release candidate 1 is finally ready! Since our last public release (a month ago) we've added ColorSync support, improved our Flash support and JavaScript compatibility, and made the...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 30, 2001 at 09:07 PM, in Applications
Oh, we're definitely doing that too, it's just... 1,596 Views / 75 Replies  
Oh, we're definitely doing that too, it's just that that change will have to wait for 4.1.



No, I'm not talking about tabbing through links. (OmniWeb does that now with Command-Up Arrow and...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 25, 2001 at 03:16 AM, in Applications
Yes, the original Cookie standard indicates that... 1,596 Views / 75 Replies  
Yes, the original Cookie standard indicates that if you don't specify a path the cookie should only apply to the path of the current page, but it appears that some other browsers apply cookies with...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 24, 2001 at 12:38 AM, in Applications
I spent a few days working on load time. It's... 1,596 Views / 75 Replies  
I spent a few days working on load time. It's still not quite where I want it, but I was able to reduce it from taking something like 30 seconds to launch (on my first-generation iBook) to less than...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 24, 2001 at 12:23 AM, in Applications
If this happens again, and you feel up to helping... 1,596 Views / 75 Replies  
If this happens again, and you feel up to helping me debug the problem (and are willing to brave some arcane Terminal commands), it would be incredibly helpful to me if you could pull up a Terminal...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 23, 2001 at 08:19 AM, in Applications
Sure, it could, and that wouldn't be terribly... 1,596 Views / 75 Replies  
Sure, it could, and that wouldn't be terribly complicated to implement either. It's just that it'd be more complicated than just implementing resumable downloads in OmniWeb (our lower-level...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 20, 2001 at 12:56 AM, in Applications
(I decided my post was off-topic for this thread,... 591 Views / 9 Replies  
(I decided my post was off-topic for this thread, perhaps we should start another one about OmniWeb speed.)

[This message has been edited by Ken at Omni (edited 04-13-2001).]
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 13, 2001 at 11:41 AM, in Applications
Sorry, there isn't a way at this time. It... 1,596 Views / 75 Replies  
Sorry, there isn't a way at this time. It wouldn't be too hard to implement, and it's definitely on our list of planned improvements--just not for version 4.0.
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 10, 2001 at 03:37 PM, in Applications
OmniWeb hands off files to the Finder to open,... 488 Views / 5 Replies  
OmniWeb hands off files to the Finder to open, rather than making you configure both the Finder and OmniWeb to tell each where to open a particular type of file.

In other words, you'd fix this by...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Apr 10, 2001 at 02:05 PM, in Applications
Yes, the problem with keyboard input stopping was... 728 Views / 55 Replies  
Yes, the problem with keyboard input stopping was related to QuickTime, and was fixed for 4.0cf3 (which we released Monday morning).
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 28, 2001 at 01:59 AM, in macOS
You can teach OmniWeb new words (like "spiffy",... 1,271 Views / 91 Replies  
You can teach OmniWeb new words (like "spiffy", or "OmniWeb") by bringing up the Spelling panel (shortcut "Command-:"), finding (or entering) the word in question, and clicking the "Learn" button.
...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 28, 2001 at 01:46 AM, in Applications
We do try to cache the final representation of a... 1,271 Views / 91 Replies  
We do try to cache the final representation of a page and use it when you return (and are often successful at this), but sometimes we're not allowed to because of the site design: in some cases, the...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 28, 2001 at 01:40 AM, in Applications
Actually, I profiled window resizing recently and... 1,271 Views / 91 Replies  
Actually, I profiled window resizing recently and in my tests it looked like we were spending less than 5% of our time doing layout (since that part of our code is highly optimized) and most of the...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 28, 2001 at 01:34 AM, in Applications
Try going to a previous page in OmniWeb 4.0 code... 632 Views / 12 Replies  
Try going to a previous page in OmniWeb 4.0 code freeze 3, released about an hour ago.
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Mar 26, 2001 at 01:50 PM, in Applications
We did the Elite Force port also (for Aspyr). We... 512 Views / 16 Replies  
We did the Elite Force port also (for Aspyr). We were demoing it at our booth at MacWorld, so this isn't exactly new news. http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif

We've done a few more Cocoa...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 28, 2001 at 07:36 PM, in macOS
Wow, 6+3 programmers? I don't think we've ever... 1,206 Views / 103 Replies  
Wow, 6+3 programmers? I don't think we've ever had that many people working on all our products, much less dedicated to OmniWeb!

While we do have a dozen software engineers, most of our engineers...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 25, 2001 at 02:29 PM, in macOS
All Cocoa applications have configurable key... 533 Views / 12 Replies  
All Cocoa applications have configurable key bindings, with some basic emacs-style Control key bindings installed by default (e.g., Control-a, Control-e, Control-p, Control-n, Control-k, etc.). Meta...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 22, 2001 at 11:44 PM, in macOS
I'm not sure that they're user-definable in the... 533 Views / 12 Replies  
I'm not sure that they're user-definable in the sense that you mean: I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do.

We do have some configurability: we color based on the syntax of the input, and...
Posted by Ken at Omni, on Feb 22, 2001 at 03:40 AM, in macOS
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