Loading a workspace thus displays the saved state, complete with all the tabs and page content, along with window size and location. A workspace is a collection of one or more OmniWeb windows to Web pages, potentially with multiple tabs, that remembers its state at a user-specified point in time or on an ongoing basis as pages change, tabs are added and removed, and windows open and close. Omni also added the concept of workspaces, which initially threw me, but which I’ve since come to adore. You can, of course, create and switch among tabs using keyboard shortcuts as well. The size of the drawer determines the size of the thumbnails, and if you have more than fit in the drawer, a scroll bar appears to provide access to the hidden ones. You can drag thumbnails around in the list to rearrange them, Option-drag them to make copies, and even drag or Option-drag them into new windows. OmniWeb’s thumbnails are also easily manipulable, so you can double-click one to open it in a window on its own, click a little X next to its name to close it without viewing it, or Control-click it to display a pop-up menu with other commands, such as Reload Tab and Reload All Tabs. You can switch to a more-compact name-only view, but the thumbnails are brilliant, since they act like icons, visually representing the page without forcing you to read and parse the name. However, whereas the standard approach is to use notebook-like tabs at the top of the screen, OmniWeb instead creates thumbnails in a drawer occupying the entire right or left side of the window. Windows and Tabs and Workspaces, Oh My! The tabbed interface for browsing has become popular in recent years since it allows the user to open and switch among multiple Web pages without creating a muddle of new windows. So let me tell you where OmniWeb sets itself apart from Safari, and likely from other Web browsers, though short of occasional use of Camino, I haven’t spent much time in current versions of Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, iCab, or others. Since OmniWeb 5.0 now uses WebCore, the same Apple low-level framework for rendering Web pages that Safari uses, its speed and rendering capabilities are on par with Safari. I’ve been testing OmniWeb 5.0 for months now, and although I still use Safari for certain tasks, I’ve become utterly addicted to OmniWeb’s power user features. But although Apple has made some under-the-hood improvements to Safari since its release, relatively little in the interface has changed, leaving plenty of room for the Omni Group to turn their Web browser, OmniWeb, into a Web browsing powerhouse. It lacked a few of Internet Explorer’s more powerful features, but on the whole Safari was, and is, an excellent Web browser. When Apple released Safari a few years ago, the program was widely hailed for its speed, clean design, and elegant interface. #1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.
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