Two thumbs up to SILK from unsanity

leonis

This little freeware utility enables almost all carbon based app to have text anti-aliasing on screen



Sample shot of Mozilla with SILK







COOL! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />



[ 06-05-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>

donny

AOL Instant messenger screws up w/ it... the box where you type text isn't very pretty if you press the space bar.



Also, when someone signs off it screws that up.



And if you enter in broken text, the main part of the window gets screwed up for half a second.



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Alright, AIM finally just crashes and now crashes whenever I send text under Silk. Also, that little exclude thing... doesn't do anything, AIM still shows pretty fonts and still crashes once it shows them.



[ 06-06-2002: Message edited by: rightnow 92 ][ QUOTE]



Yes, I found the exact same experience with AIM while using Silk. I get one IM off, a reply, and then it crashes. After a couple of such crashes, my preferences were zapped, and I had to enter all my information and settings. The input was all messed up just as you described in your post. I tried moving the preference panel to the global area (I originally installed it in my user name, but since I have the only user name on this machine, I figured why not try it), but I still expeience the same behavior. It makes AIM worthless (more worthless than it already is...). Any ideas why this application seems to be the only one effected?



Actually, I have just found, also, that iTunes fails after a restart with Silk installed on my machine. However, it works fine once I restart the application. Anyone else experiencing this problem also?



Feedback would be nice...

donny

Silk 1.1 was released today (maybe yesterday, now...). It fixes all issues with the haxie. yay!



[ 06-09-2002: Message edited by: Donny ]</p>

eugene

Where? Are you posting from the future?

donny

*laughs* Maybe so... The Silk people sent me a link. So I do not know if it is up on their servers other than this link:



<a href="http://download.unsanity.com/silk-11b1.sit"; target="_blank">http://download.unsanity.com/silk-11b1.sit</a>;



there ya go...



enjoy!

junkyard dawg

Instead of using a hack to get Mozilla and IE to work properly, you could just download this nifty little app and use it:





<a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/.sneakypeek/releases/"; target="_blank">http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/.sneakypeek/releases/</a>;





It works even better than Silk, and NO HaXXo4 is required!

applenut

[quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg:

<strong>Instead of using a hack to get Mozilla and IE to work properly, you could just download this nifty little app and use it:





<a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/.sneakypeek/releases/"; target="_blank">http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/.sneakypeek/releases/</a>;





It works even better than Silk, and NO HaXXo4 is required!</strong><hr></blockquote>





would be nice if it was standards compliant and relatively fast, but it's not

junkyard dawg

The OW sneakypeak builds are quite fast. Not very much slower than Mozilla, and unlike Mozilla they don't have cludgy, butt-ugly interfaces.



Also, OW 5 is going to be here soon and it will destroy all other browsers.

donny

Yeah Yeah Yeah...more browser preference wars... I like IE a lot, myself, and it looks even better with Silk. The Silk 1.1 did not work well, though, and I just got word of another new version. It seems to resolve all outstanding issues. You can get it here:



<a href="http://download.unsanity.com/silk-11b2.sit"; target="_blank">http://download.unsanity.com/silk-11b2.sit</a>;



I like Omni Web best too...just to say it. I just avoid it for now (being beta and not quite up for prime time), and I lust in awaiting the final version.



[ 06-10-2002: Message edited by: Donny ]</p>