Visual QuickStart Guide [Electronic resources] : Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Safari

Safari is a Web browser application. It enables you to view, or

browse , pages on the World Wide Web.

A Web

page is a window full of formatted text and graphics (Figures 92 and

93 ). You move from page to page by clicking text or graphic links or by opening

URLs (uniform resource locators ) for specific Web pages. These two methods of navigating the World Wide Web can open a whole universe of useful or interesting information.

Figure 92. When you launch Safari, it displays the default home page.

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Figure 93. Clicking the link in

Figure 92 displays this page.

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Tips

Safari now supports

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. RSS makes it possible to scan articles from several Web sites in one browser window, be notified when a Web site has new articles, and search specific Web sites for terms. I tell you how to get started using RSS later in this section.

You can easily identify a link by pointing to it; the mouse pointer turns into a pointing finger (Figure 92 ).

You can change the default home page by specifying a different page's URL in Safari's General preferences (Figure 94 ). Choose Safari > Preferences and click the General button to get started.

Figure 94. You can change the default Home page and other settings in Safari's preferences window.

To follow a link

1.	Position the mouse pointer on a text or graphic link. The mouse pointer turns into a pointing finger (Figure 92 ).
2.	Click. After a moment, the page or other location for the link you clicked will appear (Figure 93 ).

To view a specific URL

Enter the URL in the address field near the top of the Safari window (Figure 95 ), and press or .

Figure 95. Enter the URL in the Address field at the top of the Safari window, and press .

To bookmark a page

1.	Display the Web page that you want to create a bookmark for.
2.	Click the Add bookmark for page button (Figure 95 ), choose Bookmarks > Add Bookmark, or press .
3.	A dialog sheet like the one in Figure 96 appears. Enter a name for the bookmark in the box, then choose a location for it from the pop-up menu (Figure 97 ) and click Add. Figure 96. Use this dialog to set bookmark options. Figure 97. This pop-up menu offers a variety of locations in which to save a bookmark. The name you specified is added in the location you specifiedeither the bookmarks bar (Figure 98 ) or the Bookmarks menu (Figure 99 ). Figure 98. In this example, I added a bookmark for my Home page to the bookmarks bar. Figure 99. This bookmark also appears on the Bookmarks Bar submenu under the Bookmarks menu.

Chapter 14 , can automatically synchronize Safari bookmarks between computers.

To access an RSS feed

Click the RSS button that appears in the address bar (Figure 92 ).

Or

Enter the URL for an RSS feed in the address bar and press .

Or

On a Web page, click the link for an RSS feed.

The page changes to RSS feed format (

Figures 100 and

101 ).

Figure 100. The RSS feed for the page in

Figure 92 .

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Figure 101. The RSS feed for my personal blogs. I use iBlog software, which automatically creates an RSS feed per my specifications.

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Tips

RSS feeds are sometimes referred to as XML feeds.

If Safari can find an RSS feed for a site you are viewing, it automatically displays an RSS button in the address bar (Figure 92 ).

You can find RSS feeds by choosing Bookmarks > Bookmarks Bar > View All RSS Articles (Figure 99 ).

Figure 102 shows what the feed page looked like today when I tried it.

Figure 102. Choosing View All RSS Articles from the Bookmarks Bar submenu displayed this page on March 25, 2005.