![]() ![]() ![]() One useful change that I noticed is that you can now click a link in the CSS inspector on the right to jump straight to the rule definition in the source file. It’s also really useful for those developing extensions for Safari. If you’re a web developer, this will be a welcome improvement. New window links that have a specified size like a small popup will still open in a new window unless you choose “Always.” Choosing “Never” keeps the old behaviour of opening in a new window, whereas “Automatically” opens these links in new tabs instead of windows. There is now a new setting in the Tabs Preferences to specify the behaviour of links that are set to open in new windows. Remember to make a backup of Reader.html before you make any changes. Some popular changes are stopping the text from being justified, changing the colour of the links, and changing it to white text on a black background. Just experiment with it to figure out what changes what. This file is mainly just CSS that defines the appearance of reader. To open it properly in TextEdit, choose Open from the File menu, press Command-Shift-G, paste in /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources, and make sure you check “Ignore rich text commands.” Inside the package, in the Resources folder, you should find a file called Reader.html, which you can edit in your favourite text editor. ![]() If you really want to do it, find Safari in your Applications folder, right-click it and choose Show Package Contents. Modifying the look further can be done by editing a file within the Safari bundle, but be warned that this can disable Safari’s Keychain access (a precaution as the application has been tampered with). With reader enabled, just press Command-+ (plus) and Command- (minus) to increase and decrease the size. The only change that you can officially make to reader styles is the text size. For articles spread out over separate web pages, it even gathers them all together so you can read and print them more easily. It automatically strips out all the unnecessary stuff on a page such as adverts, while keeping in important images. Reader provides a great way to print articles. If you want to access the RSS feed for the page, just click and hold on the reader button to bring up a menu with a list of all the available RSS feeds. On article pages, the reader button replaces the RSS button. If there is not enough text in one place, or if there are clearly multiple articles on one page, the feature is disabled. Safari seems to be quite clever at figuring out whether a page contains an article. This will only work on pages that Safari decides are suitable for reader. On any page where the new reader function is available, just press Command-Shift-R to quickly bring it up. Update: Extensions are now enabled by default in Safari 5.0.1. I’ve written a few that are available here, and there are loads of others available on the Safari Extensions Tumblr site. Then find the Develop menu in the menubar and choose “Enable Extensions.” Now you can download extensions and double-click on them to install them in Safari. To enable extensions, check “Show Develop menu” under the Advanced tab in the Safari Preferences. Also keep an eye out to see if any of these plugins change to become Safari Extensions. For other plugins you will have to check on a case by case basis. PithHelmet is not yet Safari 5 compatible, but an update is expected within days. Updates are available for 1Password, SafariStand and Saft. The first thing you are going to want to do after you install Safari 5 is make sure all your plugins are up to date. Now we’ve all had a few days to play around with Safari 5, here are some tips for getting the most out of the new features. ![]()
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