marks.dk
Safari 4's "Save as Web Application" just killed Fluid.app
(This feature does not exist anymore, and is thus mainly saved for historical purposes. Or because I hope it’ll arrive in a later version again.)
I’ve been a fan of Single Site Browsers (especially Fluid.app) for quite some time now, and with every reason to be happy about the best among the rest, Fluid.app, I now declare it dead (for me, at least).
Is it the endless number of updates?
Is it because it tends to open a new window when I want to force it to stay in one?
Is it really because they support tabbed browsing when they ought to “remove” features that are normal in regular browsers?
No. No. And no.
It’s because Apple just seeded a new version of Safari to their developers, and it includes a function dubbed “Save as Web Application”. And that’s clever!
First of all I like the Webkit-engine better than Gecko (found in Firefox and Camino), and it’s screaming fast, I tell you. Really really screaming fast. Scrmng fst, prhps. This is because of something called Squirrelfish which renders Javascript insanely fast, and it gets a perfect 100 in the Acid3 test (http://acid3.acidtests.org/).
Another great feature is that the icon of the app that Safari creates is automatically generated by taking a screendump of the site and create an icon from that. Clever thinking.
Screenshots:
Fluid.app:
1: Two instances of Fluid.app with no favicons = no icon (unless I assign them one).
2: marks.dk in a Fluid.app with the favicon assigned.
3: Stupid userscripts and Plug-ins. I want minimalism!
1: The icon that is created based on a screendump from marks.dk. Don’t know if it’s dynamic, though.