I was perusing the goodies in the WordpressDashboard this morning and came across this entry. You know how I love new software. I couldn’t resist. I downloaded and installed Swift – a new browser on the Windows platform. Its definitely alpha, as many features need to be implemented, but OMG its fast! The MDI reminds me of earlier versions of Opera and the speed reminds me of the first Phoenix builds (a la 0.1). Damn, it renders pages fast! But, there’s no flash and AJAX doesn’t seem to work well. The scroll wheel on my mouse doesn’t scroll the page, and the password field on the WP admin login screen doesn’t show with it, so I know that there’s a long ways to go yet.
I haven’t felt this excited about a new browser since that September day when I downloaded Phoenix 0.1.
Ah yes! New software. On my way!
Heh heh. I went one step farther and snagged some old stuff too. I recall Phoenix 0.3 being nicer for me than 0.4 and later, so I downloaded it. LOL. One step foreward and one way back.
It sure is fast! Can’t wait till they work out the bugs- ie: radio buttons, scrolling etc.
It reminds me of Phoenix, just after they reduced a lot of Mozilla code and just before they added a lot of crap (like plugins, etc). Dillo (Linux) is like that, too. This just shows how the web could be, if we had the right tools to look at it.