Camino 1.5 is out. I've been using Camino as my primary browser for a almost two years now and I love it. This release is just more of the same—new features, even faster—and you should check it out.
Now what? I use Camino as my primary browser (I switched from Safari to Camino about six months ago at the nudging of Shawn, a switch which I believe was a wise choice), and until November 26 I was running the latest nightly and really enjoying all the new features and speed increases. And then November 27 came and the Camino crew landed Cairo.
Don't get me wrong—Cairo is a good thing for Mozilla in general (or, at least, it will be down the road), but currently Firefox and Camino alphas and betas have all-new rendering bugs and quirks and issues. And, quite frankly, I don't think the anti-aliasing with Cairo is as good as people keep claiming it is. Maybe that will be worked out in the future, or maybe I'm missing something, I don't know.
So now I can't download new nightlies, which means I'm stuck with a not-quite-perfect Camino that has some noticeable bugs. Take, for instance, the way it totally goes nuts when you're on a page with embedded Quicktime media, how it slowly consumes more and more resources, etcetera.
I tried switching back to Safari last week but it was immediately uncomfortable. I love the way Safari renders but it feels slow and clunky in comparison to Camino these days. And Firefox... boy, I wish I wanted to use it but I just don't. The look, the feel, it just isn't right on the Mac yet.
In the mean time, I'm going to keep using the nightly from November 26 and investigate some Safari plugins and such.
I switched the feed for the site from Atom 1.0 back to RSS 2.0 because of a few issues people were having:
- You have to be running the latest version of NNW for Atom 1.0 support. Seemingly, older versions just don't show the feed at all. This caused a bit of a problem since most of my feed subscribers use NNW and not all use the absolute latest version.
- 9rules' site is only capable of parsing RSS 2.0, not Atom (yet).
- It was easy to switch (RoR is great!) so I just went ahead and did it.
Later on I'll push Atom 1.0 support back out but for now this is safer.
Oh, and before I forget—I've gotten a few complaints about the message IE readers receive at the top of every page. I just want to apologize to any of you who get the message when you're on a public or work computer that you can't install a better browser on (there are only two of you who have complained about this), but it's a necessary evil to have the message there. IE must die.
On a related note, two people complained about some issues with this site in Opera and I just want to say, politely, that I don't care. Opera is totally and completely useless as far as I'm concerned and while I value you as a person getting to make up your mind as to what you do and such, I disagree with your choice and hope one day you see the light. I mean, a browser with ads? Ridiculous. Wait, a browser with ads that renders pages differently than the other major standards-compliant browsers? Oh, goodie! Where can I sign up and, until about a month ago, pay money for it? Yuck. Double yuck. I understand that it doesn't have ads anymore and it's free now, but that doesn't make it good. Seriously, it doesn't.
It's not that I hate browsers other than Firefox/Camino and Safari/Omniweb, it's just that I hate browsers that don't render things correctly and require tweaking and patches and crap like that.