The "thank you for your hard work" thread

[Forrest]

People who work with me have occasionally told me I have nothing nice to say. I don't tend to complement a job well done, but point out more areas of improvement. I don't like to sit and spend time on the past, but focus on the future. That rubs people the wrong way sometimes...

Anyway, this forum has been filled with bugs, requests, more bugs and more requests. Enough to even tire me some. So I figured I would throw a different thread in the mix - one that says thanks.

So thanks to all you omni folk. Your web browser makes my life/job easier. OmniGraffle makes charting stuff easier than before (I used to use freehand, draw boxes, move lines each time a box moves...)

I hope you have AC.

[Rachael]

thanks Forrest :)

AC??? like, air conditioning?

[Bill Van Hecke]

Armor Class?

[Forrest]

AC??? like, air conditioning?

Yeah. I suppose you can just chill at zoka if you don't ;)

[Rachael]

Yeah. I suppose you can just chill at zoka if you don't ;)

*peeks out from under her parka* -- AC is NOT an issue 'round here ;)

[TimmyDee]

I'll chime in, too, and add my thanks. OW was always my #1 choice for browsers, but I had to open Safari or Firefox for some things I use often (i.e. Google Maps). Not any more! Keep up the good work, and I can't wait to see what version 6 has in store (even if it's a ways off)!

[marc]

I reckon I'll thank them with a new license, as soon as 5.5 is released. :)

...and I do hope they get a good sense of how much their hard work is appreciated by all of the rabid fans/users around here. ;)

[danrubin]

I've been on the fence as far as my primary browser is concerned (call me a "browser agnostic" if you will), but finding myself using FF with tons of extensions for the last 9 months or so, on all my machines (Mac & PC). Camino? Looks nice, but not enough features (one good example of making something *too* simple imo). Safari? Nice, especially with a few plugins, but gets bogged down too quickly for some reason (I can keep FF open for weeks with tons of tabs, and no problems -- Safari? not so much...).

OmniWeb has always looked nice, had nice features, etc., but as a web developer (and web junkie) I haven't been able to use it because of its older rendering engine. Even so, I recognized the importance of trying to make the best browser on the Mac, so I purchased a registration months ago, but almost never open the app. That registration has now paid off, since these sneak peeks have been my default browser on 3 machines since I started using them at #9, and I'm thrilled so far.

Thank you, OmniGroup, for continuing to make your browser the best. It looks like you finally have achieved that goal, with honors (and it's not even *final* yet!).

P.S. I think I'll repost this to SB...

[MinutiaeMan]

I have to admit I'm slightly surprised that there's no indication of OW 5.5 being a paid upgrade. Considering the work that's been put into this release, I'd have no qualms buying an upgrade for the improvement in performance of a program that I use for several hours a day! What I said almost a year ago (http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/omniweb-l/2005/019007.html) still applies today.

[Imnsvale]

I first started using OmniWeb when it was the only browser available for OS X Public Beta and I've still never found a better browser. The registration "nag" messages on an unregistered copy I had on a secondary computer would make me laugh every time. Something like: "A man in Chicago registered OmniWeb and the next day he got free fries with his burger. A woman in Seattle didn't register OmniWeb and the next day she stubbed her toe really badly. Coincidence?"

I love the zoomed text editing, its about the best thing ever. I love workspaces. I love how it actually follows good human interface design policies. (Safari, Camino, et al weird "double arrow" tab spillover thingy, I'm glaring at you.) I can't think of one thing I don't like about OmniWeb.

For example, "I tried to drag the framistan onto the hee-whackity, the application didn't respond for about 10 seconds, and then it crashed. This is the third time it has crashed while I was trying to do the same thing, and it only started happening since I installed CrashDoubler 7.8!"

OmniWeb crashed today with that (saving all my open windows and everything!) pre-filled into the crash reporter and I laughed out loud again. Please keep this for the non-sneaky peek releases.

+10 if you remember what and where "framistan" came from. I sure do. :P

[philonous]

I am probably one who like the rest of you actually got to "know" some of the OG people by filing a lot of bug reports. In fact, I was one who even begged many times to be on the OW testing crew because once I could no longer use the very slow OW 5.1, I actually went into a depression because the other browsers simply did not have this ideal combination of features.

So, yes, in case the killer programmers at OG were not aware of it, I am very excited about their work, too.

And, yes, I am yet another guy who finds new amazing uses for Omnigraffle and Outliner (http://minoofar.com) daily.

It is also testimony to how dedicated OG is to customer support that they take user input so seriously! It also explains why OG is so much better than the other Seattle software company. Customer satisfaction is SO much better as a company ethos than customer oppression.

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[firm3d]

OmniWeb is the only OmniApp I use regularly. I've used it as long as I've used OS X (the non-Public Beta Public Beta that was 10.0, which I installed on a rev B iMac, then uninstalled until a few months later after replacing the 4 GB hard drive with a 40 GB hard drive).

It's great to see an app that gets genuinely better, rather than just more convoluted (I'm thinking of no app in particular, most fall into this category). It's all very well adding features, but it's the proper implementation that makes them useful.

Thanks OmniDudes and OmniDudettes!

[TommyW]

Yes. A good topic. Thanks guys and gals, you make my work easier and my leisure more pleasurable.

I use OW and OOP and OGP... So a dedicated follower at this point. OOP is at the centre of my planning and management. OGP at the core of my documents for teaching.

And OW... now that the speed issue is no more... I can laugh in the face of other browsers...

Thanks. Keep it up.

[ramsayj]

Can't put it much better than what's been said - love omniweb and omnigraffle has pretty much changed the way I work (and even think!) Now even happier that Omniweb 5.5 makes me a onebrowser guy again. That's worth a thpought - how good does a browser have to be (not too mention the creative drive behind it) that people not only happily pay for it but up to now even put up with having to using others at the same time. Think that speaks for itself.

thanks guys!

[sachiwilson]

I concur - I've been hooked on OmniWeb in particular since OS X came out. First because it was a gorgeously laid out browser and everything just fell to hand for me, and later because of the way I could customize pages so perfectly.

I am a lawyer and I do a LOT of research over the 'net so a browser that is stable, intuitive, and utterly joyful to use is MUCH appreciated!

[banana]

I certainly appreciate the work that's been done on 5.5 - it seems to be significantly faster, which is the only 'feature' I've wanted since the standards compliance that came with the switch to WebCore :)

[daiyi666@yahoo.com]

I would like to express my gratitude here as well. For some time I had given up on OW simply because 5.1 was too slow compared to other browsers. 5.5 has now become my default browser.

Thanks to OG for contintuing to develop OW into an even better browser. I appreciate all your help and responses to emails in the past and look forward to the continual improvement of OW in the future.

[jtrott]

Gotta give some love OmniGroups way as well. Been using and recommending OmniWeb since the first builds of Mac OS X made their way onto my G3. It got a bit tough in recent times, having to use Firefox to render some sites that didn't work at all, or were too slow in OmniWeb - but since the sneakypeek builds started to come out for 5.5 I've been 100% OmniWeb once again.
There are just too many nice things about the interface and features of OmniWeb to want to ever use anything else - and now it's one of the fastest browsers available! :)
Keep up the good work OmniGroup, I'd also be happy to pay for the 5.5 upgrade as there is so much of a speed increase and compatibility increase!

[andreas_g]

thank you for omniweb 5.5! it's now really one of the fastest browsers out there. even on my super slow 600 MHz iBook G3 it is FAST.

thank you!

[HiramNetherlands]

I recently bought a MacBook (1.83 GHz, 1 GB RAM), and much to my dismay, I found that a universal binary for OmniWeb wasn't available yet. Then I discovered the sneakypeeks. Mere minutes later, I made SP17 my default browser.

OmniWeb is finally as fast as Safari, with all the added goodness that I sorely missed during the times when I reverted to Safari for speed, over the past few years. So congratulations, OmniPeople, 5.5 is looking very good indeed.

[Jacko]

This is an old but a so meaningful thread. I hate other thread which posts are nonsense. Instead of acknowledging the author for an informative post yet they criticize and sometimes they bashing them.