Safari 2 has some serious problems with it's Javascript interpreter. Any page that has a heavy amount of Javascript will fail. I know the jQuery team has to run the jQuery unit tests on Safari 2 in chunks, otherwise Safari 2 blows up. There's several posts about this in the archives.
-Dan >-----Original Message----- >From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Jeffrey Kretz >Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:39 PM >To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com >Subject: [jQuery] Re: Safari 2 Mac - loads of problems! > > >Unfortunately, I too have had a number of problems related to Safari 2, in >building a CMS system. I was able to get the public part of the site to >work, but the CMS administration (HTML Editor, etc) had many many problems, >despite everything working well in FF, Opera, IE6 and IE7. > >Eventually, my boss decided to not support Safari 2, and we've had to tell >our clients on our CMS who use Safari to switch to Firefox or upgrade to >Safari 3. > >JK > >-----Original Message----- >From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of herrflick >Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:51 AM >To: jQuery (English) >Subject: [jQuery] Safari 2 Mac - loads of problems! > > >I've been working on a site that is really heavy with jquery stuff, >but have found it almost impossible to get even pretty basic stuff >working in safari 2 on a Mac. > >The development site is at: http://dev2.drfoster.co.uk/ > >the scripts I've written are at: >http://dev2.drfoster.co.uk/script/hg-functions.js >& http://dev2.drfoster.co.uk/script/graph.js, and i'm using jquery >v1.2.6. > >The graphs & all the page functions work as intended in all the >browsers I need (ie6 + win, firefox 2+, safari 3 mac, safari win etc), >but in safari 2 Mac the browser originally just crashed. I added >browser detection and created some basic alternative stuff, but as >soon as I add more than a few functions, the site stops working. > >Has anyone had a similar issue with jquery, safari 2 (and perhaps >google maps API?) > >Thanks for listening!
