Safari To Go at Mac App Store analyse

Frankly, this application comes as a huge disappointment from the Safari team: I have been thinking of resigning my subscription from Safari Online for months since I hardly ever use it. I have the entry-level subscription plan which gives me web access to books (with only a few tokens to download PDFs) and I never managed to read through the hundreds of pages of documentation online.... Instead I had been waiting for a decent iPad application which would let me read on my portable device and code on my computer. So, when I *finally* learned Safari had got an application out (whats it been, one year since the iPads there?), I decided to give it one more try. The result : "almost but not there". And now Im thinking about canceling my whole subscription, unless Safari quickly addresses the following issues: * Its slow as hell, even on an iPad with an A4 chip. Thats just not acceptable when you can get apps like Kindle or iBooks which display text much better * Its buggy The application crashed on me a couple of times, failed to load book pictures at startup (which, btw, is useless : Im interested in MY books, not viewing yet another random unrelated books). * The user interface doesnt feel natural For some reason the application designers chose not to follow the usual iOS best practices : There is no feedback when you touch a button (and, since its so slow, you often dont know what happened), its not possible to go from one page to another by swiping (instead you have to click on little arrows at the bottom), there is no landscape view but instead a portrait-only display that often makes the text tiny unless you zoom, etc.... Frankly, this looks like an embedded HTML application and not something designed for the user in mind. * Offline mode hardly works After days of trying, Ive only managed to synchronize one book to my offline book bag, the interface was so unnatural! And when that finally worked, I got random errors trying add other ones... The idea behind this application is great, but it just doesnt work on my device.

Safari Books est un site indispensable pour tout développeur. La quasi totalité des livres techniques (en anglais) est disponible en accès complet (pour un abonnement mensuel certes pas donné :) Lapp pour iPad rend laccès au site hyper rapide et la consultation du contenu des livres est elle aussi accélérée! Très impressionnant et fort pratique. Bravo.

Grâce à sa fonction offline, il est possible de lire sans acheter des ouvrages même quand on nest pas connecté.

Good idea. Good app. But there is an issue in the landscape mode : sometimes long sentences are not correctly displayed. (it is boring). Furthermore, it is really reducing my battery life. I hope a new release soon.

Problem is not specific to the app, the website also does not work. Seems to be a problem with account authentication... As a paying customer, Im getting tired by the bugs and poor service

I cant believe this app doesnt permit text highlight. Making it useless for me because i NEED to highlight text when learning from a technical book, which this app is about. This is so frustrating because the concept is great.

This is an awesome service and gives valuable functionality to my iPad mini. Nevertheless, a built-in dictionary that would be activated when you touch a word would be really helpful.