AppleInsider Staff
Apple on Thursday issued two Safari betas to developers with PDF viewing and annotation enhancements, as well as autofill improvements, among other changes.
According to AppleInsider reader Gregg, Apple seeded Safari 6.1.1 for OS X 10.7.5 Lion and OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion, as well as Safari 7.0.1 for OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Apple is asking developers to concentrate on viewing and annotating PDFs, login and password autofill and Web Inspector functions, along with general website compatibility and accessibility features.
The company gave no indication as to when the software would be ready for pubic consumption, but the latest Safari could be released in the coming weeks.
Developers can download Safari 6.1.1 and 7.0.1 from Apple's Developer Center now.
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Pubic consumption. Yum.
[COLOR=blue][/COLOR]I'd rather see them address the safari crashing on my iOS7 devices. Yes, even after 7.0.4
Enhancements? About just allowing me to view a PDF in Safari. Since Mavericks DP2 clicking a PDF link inside Safari brings me nothing but a page full of its binary content...
[quote name="djames4242" url="/t/160745/apple-seeds-safari-betas-with-pdf-and-autofill-enhancements#post_2435103"]Enhancements? About just allowing me to view a PDF in Safari. Since Mavericks DP2 clicking a PDF link inside Safari brings me nothing but a page full of its binary content... [/quote] Reminds me of my undergrad computer science days! Coding something for hours only to have 856,376,259,192^256 unprintable characters fill my screen! Memories...
If by chance you had previous version of Safari set to download PDFs instead of viewing them in-browser (by using this hidden preference in Terminal or using some shareware utility that does the same thing -- you know, the secret pref settings kind of util.) you will need to UNDO (reset) that pref setting for Mavericks b/c this option is no longer avail. and will lead to what you described. IOW, that "hack" no longer works -- you won't be able to download PDFs with a normal click as you could in ML and earlier -- and it will screw up your viewing as you said. RESET it with:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool NO
Restart Safari.