Saft for Safari 3 Public Beta - 9.0b6

Sigh.... Saft finally works on the Safari 3.0.3 beta, the first time it has worked for me on any of the Safari 3 betas. I'm very glad to have it back. It's amazing how soon a luxury can become a necessity. Combined with GoodVibrations CSS, all those annoying ads are now blocked. Which is great because my Version Tracker subscription will soon expire and I wasn't looking forward to the reappearance of ads on the site. This is relevant to a discussion of Saft because Version Tracker is no longer offering the less expensive membership that just eliminates ads. They now require a Pro subscription, even if you don't want or need to use the standalone Version Tracker Pro application. And they have not fixed the scaling problem with their main page where the right-hand column expands to over half the page width, crushing the more important left-hand column, if you increase the font display size, which I need to do in order to read it easily. Since they have not responded to my oft-expressed concerns on this issue, I'm voting with my wallet and refusing to reward them for violating accessibility standards this way. Hence, the value of Saft for me. I apologize for the rant if none of this means anything to you.

I've got a solution to get Saft running with Safari 3.0.3. Please take a look at my blog. For all non-German-speaking people: Go to /Library/InputManagers/Saft and show package content of Saft.bundle via context menu (I hope this is the correct menu item in english). Go to Contents and edit the Info.plist. Look for SaftSupportedSafariBuild and add a new array with a string with the value 522.12.1 Save the file and restart Safari. Now Saft will load correctly. This works for me from the first day of Safari 3.0.3 (now this will be 5 or 6 days).

I've got a solution to get Saft running with Safari 3.0.3. Please take a look at my blog. For all non-German-speaking people: Go to /Library/InputManagers/Saft and show package content of Saft.bundle via context menu (I hope this is the correct menu item in english). Go to Contents and edit the Info.plist. Look for SaftSupportedSafariBuild and add a new array with a string with the value 522.12.1 Save the file and restart Safari. Now Saft will load correctly. This works for me from the first day of Safari 3.0.3 (now this will be 5 or 6 days).

This program is VERY good, no crashes, no problems, just great internet browsing. It doesn't work with Safari 3.0.3 yet, though. I'm sure there will be a new version today or tomorrow, but for know it's kind of annoying getting a "Saft Loading Problem" error message.

As a licensed Saft user and lover of the product I was excited to install and test the beta version for Safari 3. It works flawlessly for me (OSX 10.4.1) but what I don't appreciate is having my workflow interrupted every ten minutes by a "Thanks for trying Saft demo" pop up. I've already paid for this software and last time I checked beta and demo weren't interchangeable. I'm uninstalling until the final release and will reconsider then.