Federico Viticci wrote an in-depth article about why he left Chrome and returned to Safari on his iOS devices. One comment I’d like to add to his piece is about using Reading List. I’ve been using Safari’s built-in read later feature too and I kind of like it. I suppose it’s as much for the convenience of having my saved articles available across all devices as it is for the feature itself. I do use Instapaper and have the apps, but sometimes it’s just easier to have everything in one app.
Safari
Safari dominates mobile Web browsers
> Safari for iOS was responsible for 61.79% of total mobile internet traffic during the month of March, an increase from 55.41% in February. Safari’s closest competitor for mobile browser dominance was Google’s Android browser, which had a 21.86% share of Web traffic in March.
Once again this brings up the obvious question — what are all the Android people doing with their phones?
Apple blocks older versions of Flash Web plug-in in Safari
> To help protect users from a recent vulnerability, Apple has updated the web plug-in-blocking mechanism to disable older versions of the web plug-in: Adobe Flash Player
Makes sense.
When Steve Jobs introduced Safari
Don Melton:
> Steve started the Safari presentation with, “So, buckle up.” […]
> And for the entire six minutes and 32 seconds that Steve used Safari on stage, I don’t remember taking a single breath. I was thinking about that network failure during rehearsal and screaming inside my head, “Stay online, stay online!” We only had one chance to make a first impression.
What a great story.
How Apple hid Safari from server logs
Fascinating story from Don Melton about how he hid Safari in plain sight while developing the browser.