Tabini reports, “While the framework itself is primary of interest to developers, the extensions that have already started to surface will let users add to Safari all sorts of capabilities that had previously been the domain of hacks and workarounds.”
“Even though extensions have barely been available for a day, several developers have jumped into the fray and either demoed or published some initial add-ons,” Tabini reports.
“Even though extensions have barely been available for a day, several developers have jumped into the fray and either demoed or published some initial add-ons,” Tabini reports. “For example, yesterday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Mac developer Panic showed Coda Notes, an extension that can be used to add annotations to a Website.”
Tabini reports, “Although Panic has, so far, elected not to publish its extension, claiming that it’s still too rough around the edges, others have been more adventurous. An enterprising user has even started a Website that collects and links to extensions as they become available—at the time of this writing, the ten or so downloads available covered functionality from making it easier to watch YouTube videos in fullscreen mode to managing tasks and projects.”
Read more in the full article, how to enable extensions, here.
Safari 5’s Reader sounds fine on the surface, but won’t removing “clutter” i.e. advertisements that support our ability to read news for free, result in the publishers of newspapers ending their ad-supported free news website, and end up with a subscription-only plan?
Re: End of Free News
Those publishers are free to do that if they choose.
They’re also free to accelerate their decline by doing it.
Those ads don’t benefit them unless someone clicks through, and anyone likely to click on them isn’t kept from doing it; they don’t have to use Reader or any other function that blocks ads.
@mr reese
I think the expression you’re looking for is ‘featurism’…so when apple does it, it’s ok, but when apple significantly lags in something then its featurism? Wow, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning…it’s the smell of delusion.