I’ve run into a few various issues with a clean install of 10.3 since I’ve received it. Other than my own personal feelings about the Finder being metallic, and a few other oddities, it does feel a bit snappier than 10.2. Then again, I don’t have a whole lot of stuff running at the moment. ;)

Safari 1.1 does have a few issues that are driving me nuts:

· window.getSelection() in JavaScript is broken. It always returns NULL. This breaks QuickURL blogging. [Edit: Point of order: getSelection() works, though… odd.]
· The URL format does not ‘escape’ spaces if they are sent – it will accept them as %20 or ’+’, but if sent an actual unescaped space in a URL string, it will attempt to download the referenced page. Huh? Strict is better, but this behavior was annoying to track down.
· Font selection is much more realistic as compared to other browsers. (Not a bug, it was my own fault for using it as my primary ‘test’ system for my site layout. ;))

Overall System:
· I used to be able to boot into OS 9 natively, then use the ‘keyboard’ Control Panel to set it to use Function+FKey to be the ‘volume’, ‘contrast’, et al. Upon booting into 10.3, this is wiped from the NVRAM – it won’t let me. Now when I slip and hit ‘F1’ by mistake on this tiny keyboard, my screen dims I hit F12, and my CD is ejected, etc, etc.
· They’ve moved everything around, AGAIN. ‘Login Options’ under System Preferences is now a subsection of ‘Accounts’. “Disk Utility” now encompasses the Mount/Conversion tool.
· Expose. It’s cute and nice to ‘make things fit’ on the screen, or move them away, but I miss the old functionality of WindowShade – I look forward to Unsanity’s update to WindowShade X haxie.
· The task switcher. It’s a blatant rip of LiteSwitch X, and has less functionality. I’m so glad that Proteron made it work with 10.3; the ‘default’ Apple version is rather limited.
· Disk Burning. No, they still won’t support anything that they haven’t branded. My machine is a mid-way model, received about a week before they started bundling CD-R/DVD combos. Toast sucks, but having this integration even stronger in the OS with no ability to use it annoys me greatly.
· XCode. This gcc is hardly different than that offered with the latest udpates from the 10.2 toolkit. If the build numbers are two be believed – it’s two builds past that offered for 10.2. Huh?