Sharon Zardetto - Take Control of Safari 5

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• Menu references : The general shorthand description to refer to choosing something from a menu is, for instance, File > Open. Occasionally a commands name changes partially to match its context; I describe these commands with an obvious placeholder such as File > Sync TheDevice .

• Path names : The route you take to a file on your hard drive, whether by looking through columns in a window or by double-clicking your way through folders, is the files path , and theres a standard syntax for referring to these paths.

  The disks name is always the first thing in a path; we assume the disk is always there, so we dont include its name, but we preserve the slash that would separate it from the next item. So, HardDrive/System/Library becomes /System/Library.

  A path to something in a users home directory starts with the drives name, followed by Users and then the users name. The convention, however, is to replace those first three items with ~ (tilde), so HardDrive/Users/Miriam/Library becomes simply ~/Library. (Youve probably noticed by now that path text is formatted in special type.)

• System Preferences : To work with System Preferences, choose System Preferences from the Apple ( ) menu and in the window that opens, click the icon for the settings you want to adjust. I describe this procedure simply as, for instance, Open the Parental Controls preference pane or In System Preferences, open Parental Controls.

• Safari Preferences : Applications have their own preferences, separate from System Preferences. In Safari, choose Safari > Preferences (Command-Comma), then access a specific type of preferencesuch as General, Bookmarks, or RSSby clicking its icon at the top of the Preferences window. Sometimes I refer to a Safari preference pane as Safaris General preferences or the Bookmarks pane of Safaris preferences.

• Contextual menus : When I refer to accessing a contextual menu, I usually write Control-click [whatever] for the contextual menu. This is a little ironic since I never Control-clickmy main computer is a laptop, and I use a two-finger tap for a contextual menu. You might do the same, or you may be using a mouse thats programmed to open a contextual menu with a right-click. Whenever you read Control-click or right-click, use whatever method you like to open a contextual menu.

Whats new? Sometimes new is in the eye of the user. The features described here were introduced in Safari 5, but some (notably absent: Reader and Extensions) were also added to the Safari 4.1 update, released at the same time as Safari 5 for users of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. So, if you worked with Safari 4.1 before moving to Safari 5, some items wont be entirely new to you. In some places in this book, when I say new in Safari 5, the feature may also have been incorporated into Safari 4.1