Safari for Tablet PCs, UMPCs: no TIP for you…next!

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Well, I couldn’t let a new download sit and wait on the web, so I pulled down the beta of Safari for Windows on my Samsung Q1P UMPC. Of course, the first thing I looked for was support for ink and as expected, it’s not there. Vista’s Tablet PC functionality simply doesn’t recognize any of the text boxes, so I can already see that I won’t be using Safari on a regular basis for this machine. To make matters worse for Tablet PC and UMPC owners, the TIP only works with the on-screen keyboard. You can’t enter a URL in Safari via handwriting recognition nor with the character pad which makes it relatively unusable for me at the moment. Navigational pen flicks do work as expected since they’re part of the Tablet functionality within Vista, so you can drag a web page up or down, move forward and back. To be fair, this is a beta…but not a good one for us that ‘think ink’. ;)

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