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Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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CHAPTER 10 BROWSING THE WEB WITH SAFARI<br />

Safari Plug-Ins<br />

Safari in <strong>Leopard</strong> comes equipped with the most commonly used browser plug-ins, including<br />

Shockwave and Flash plug-ins, Java plug-ins, and a QuickTime plug-in that supports a wide<br />

variety of image, audio, and video media formats. Occasionally, however, you may come across<br />

some content on the Web that requires some other type of plug-in. Depending on the web site,<br />

you may be prompted to download and install the plug-in, or you may just be told that you are<br />

missing the required plug-in (and usually told which one you are missing). Two common plug-ins<br />

not installed by default are plug-ins for Real Media and for Windows Media. To get the Real<br />

Media plug-in, visit www.real.com/ and download the free RealPlayer for the <strong>Mac</strong>. This will<br />

include the browser plug-in. Things for Windows Media are a bit trickier, as currently there is no<br />

up-to-date version of Windows Media Player for <strong>OS</strong> X. However, a program called Flip4<strong>Mac</strong>,<br />

from http://flip4mac.com/, will install the necessary plug-ins to allow most Windows Media files<br />

to be played back both in Safari and QuickTime.<br />

Beyond that, there are some other infrequently used plug-ins. Often when you encounter<br />

these, there will be information about what is necessary to view the content. Luckily, though, the<br />

days of plug-in madness have passed (i.e., the dot-com days when every wanna-be tech company<br />

had its own plug-in for its own proprietary format)—today, most of your plug-in needs should<br />

be fulfilled by the included plug-ins.<br />

Web Clippings<br />

Web Clippings, a new feature in Safari, allows you to select regions of a web page and add those<br />

regions to your Dashboard. The type of content can be anything that is contained in a web page,<br />

so this feature can really be interesting. For example, say you come across the listing of Yahoo’s<br />

top 20 daily searches (http://buzz.yahoo.com/overall/). You can clip out the table displaying the<br />

results (Figure 10-16) by clicking the Web Clip button on your toolbar, or selecting the File ➤<br />

Open in Dashboard... command, highlighting the desired content, and clicking the Add button.<br />

This will add the selected region to your Dashboard (Figure 10-17). Once placed, you can click<br />

the small i button on the clipping to add a border around it.

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