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2005.08.03 I've had a love-hate relationship with Safari for years. Well, maybe it's not Safari, but it's the JavaScript that Safari uses. You see, I love playing online euchre on Yahoo! Games, and none of the current Mac browsers work the way Internet Explorer does on Windows. Even outdated IE 5.2 for Mac OS X almost gets it right.
The first problem is displaying the 'lounge' windows on the Mac's screen. The window is always too small for the contents, but that doesn't happen in IE on Windows. You'd think they don't test on other platforms. The second problem, which I've really only noticed since moving to Tiger and Safari 1.3, is that when I resize a 'table' window or a 'score' window, it doesn't get redrawn properly. (This is also the case with Shiira, which uses the same rendering engine as Safari.) The third problem is reading the tiny text in the lounge, table, and score windows. Teeny tiny type - it was larger in Safari 1.2.
I'm thinking maybe as itsy bitsy as 7 or 8 pixels high. See for yourself in the text on the right. Note that this will probably look nice if you have a laptop or a desktop computer with an LCD. It won't, however, look crisp and legible if you're running your eMac at 1280 x 960, which is my normal setting. Once upon a time I used Firefox - my default browser, although it has its own issues - to play games on Yahoo!, but somewhere along the way the combination of Firefox and Yahoo! I get an error message asking me to make sure Java is enabled when I try to enter a lounge (this after my Mac briefly displays the lounge).
Java is enabled. So is JavaScript. I can't even log into Yahoo! Games with iCab 3.0, although there was a time when I did use iCab for online euchre.
I can't log into Yahoo! Games, but it won't display the lounge. Opera 8 works, but I've got the same small text and undersized windows. On the other hand, at least it doesn't mess up a table window when I resize it. This may become my default for gaming - time will tell. Tiny Text Solution The easiest way to solve the fuzzy tiny text problem is to switch my eMac to a lower resolution. The problem with that is that it moves and resizes windows in all of my open applications.
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The solution occurred to me last week: Create a new user called 'euchre' and set the display to 1152 x 864. That's just enough bigger that the teeny tiny text is no longer fuzzy - and the resolution is still high enough to have an open lounge window, table windows, score window, and Yahoo! Messenger (which we use to communicate in most of the leagues I'm a member of). Here's how it looks. Note that I have the regular browser window minimized so there are only four open windows. (This image is half the size of the screen and intended to show my working layout, not be something legible.) To speed up switching, you'll need to have Fast User Switching enabled (in System Preferences Accounts).
I didn't set a password for this user. Now I can just select 'euchre' as the user in the menu bar and watch my eMac make the switch. The only catch so far is that if Classis is running in my main session, when I switch back the Classic apps are all limited to the 1152 x 864 portion of my 1280 x 960 display. Launching 'euchre' is fairly fast, since there's no need to load all of the extras I use in my main account. I've even give this user a boring light blue background so it won't detract from game play. All in all, a fairly simple and elegant solution that you may find useful for playing games or other activities.
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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, YouTube that it had made HTML5 video its default instead of Adobe Flash, which is still be supported. What does this mean for Mac users? HTML5 video doesn’t require additional software, which immediately sets it apart from Flash video. Further, HTML5 video is supported on some older hardware and operating systems that Flash no longer supports – PowerPC in particular. That said, HTML5 video isn’t a single thing.
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There are three different types of video encoding supported by HTML5:. promoted by Apple and Google, integrated into QuickTime.
patent-free promoted by Mozilla and Opera. royalty-free sponsored by Google Some browsers support all three, some two, some only one, and some old browsers none at all. Each of these video formats has, with H.264 generally considered the most efficient, but with the drawback that it is not patent- or royalty-free.
I have been testing HTML5 video support on a variety of browsers supported by and on PowerPC hardware. My test machines are a and a. The test page I’m using is Video performance will vary depending on the speed of your internet connection, processor speed, the number of CPUs in your Mac, and your video card. OS X 10.4.11 Tiger Results. Safari is the Mac’s default browser, and version 4.1.3 is the last supported in Tiger. Only H.264/MP4 video is supported. supports Theora, but does not display H.264 or WebM.
is our standard recommendation for Tiger users. It is a PowerPC specific port of Mozilla (a.k.a. Firefox) that is optimized for G3, G5, and two varieties of G4 CPUs. The current version is 31.4.0, and I used it with v.120 installed, which lets TFF use QuickTime to display video.
Theora works nicely, WebM works very poorly on the G5 but nicely on the G4, and H.264 does not work at all. Our advice to Tiger users: Use Safari for H.264 and TenFourFox for Theora and WebM. OS X 10.5.8 Leopard Results.
Leopard runs a newer version of Safari, 5.0.6, which only supports H.264/MP4 video, not WebM or Theora. Video on the G5 is very smooth. Opera 10.6.3 is the most recent version for Leopard as well as Tiger on PowerPC Macs. As with Tiger, only Theora displays video. Quality is good on the G5 and not bad on the G4. TenFourFox provides WebM and Theora playback, but not H.264. Theora seems a bit smoother than WebM on the G5.
is a Leopard-specific build of TenFourFox that is currently at version 20.0a2. It supports H.264, WebM, and Theora video – all very nicely on my G5. is intended to provide PowerPC Mac users a browser that works similarly to Google Chrome by running separate processes for improved speed and stability with a reduced memory footprint.
It supports H.264/MP4, but not the other standards. is a newer browser designed to work on both Macs (OS X 10.5 and later) and iDevices. It only supports H.264/MP4. On a lark, I gave the ancient a try. It only supports Theora.
(It doesn’t support anything on Tiger.) Our advice to Leopard users: Give Aurora a try, because it’s the only PPC Leopard browser to support all three protocols. For details on how well each browser performs with YouTube, see. OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Results With the on Macs running Tiger and Leopard, a lot of PowerPC users are going to be looking at low-end Intel Macs, and is the hands-down choice. It’s very similar to Leopard in the way it works (none of this -and-beyond nonsense of replacing Save As with Duplicate, for instance), is the last version of OS X that can still run PowerPC software, and has a smaller footprint than more recent versions of OS X. Snow Leopard is Intel-only and will give you access to lots of newer software written only for the Intel OS X platform. If you’re on Intel, there really is no reason to stick with Tiger or Leopard; Snow Leopard is the cat’s meow. I have a with 3 GB RAM and OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard installed, which is my primary production machine alongside a with that I use when in the field.
The Core 2 Duo Mini was fairly low-end when it was introduced over seven years ago and has become more so over time. Safari 5.1.10 is the newest version of Apple’s browser supported by Snow Leopard.
It’s H.264 support is very good, and there is still no support for Theora or WebM video. Opera 12.13 supports Theora nicely, WebM decently, and H.264 not at all. 35.0.1 supports all three standards. Stainless on Intel/Snow Leopard takes a step forward, supporting both H.264 and WebM, but not Theora. Like Firefox, supports H.264, WebM, and Theora. Roccat on Snow Leopard supports both H.264 and WebM, but not Theora.
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Our advice to Snow Leopard users: Google Chrome and Firefox both support all three HTML5 video protocols. Give each a try to see which you prefer.
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