I'll try to have a look this evening.
I'd hazard a guess that those sites supported and maintained by NASA, NIST,
NIH and NIMH have a lot more Mac users hitting those sites than other
government agencies.
larry
At 12:55 PM 10/16/2003, you wrote:
>Before I answer that question, are there any serious Mac users on this
>list?
>
>
>I responded to a similar question on /., a debate ensued and I got
>modded down as a troll.
>
>
>Safari is in its infancy as a browser and is just learning how to walk.
>You can support it, but you will be changing your applications every
>year or so as new versions come out.
>
>
>On some of the sites I maintain, there have not been any hits from a
>Safari browser. The same is true for a lot of sites throughout the
>Federal govt. (well, probably not for NEA).
>
>
>You need to know your audience and make decisions based on evidence. If
>even 1% of your users look at you through a Safari browser, consider
>making it compliant but first look at the cost of maintaining it for the
>next 5 years as Apple gets rolling with this thing.
>
>
>M
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Samuel Neff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 4:58 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Is Safari really prime-time ready? Do we need to
>consider it supported in our apps?
>
>
>We had a report from a user of an error on one of our apps when
>viewing with
>Safari, but even that user confirmed it works fine for him in
>IE. I just
>got a Mac OSX a few hours ago and started testing things out
>with Safari and
>found a lot of things don't work right--some consistently but
>most
>inconsistently.
>
>Our graphic designer says he uses Safari as his primary browser
>but often
>has trouble with some public web sites and when that happens he
>switches to
>IE for those sites and they work fine.
>
>So, is Safari really ready for prime time? It is fully released
>and out of
>beta, right? What do average users (non-programmers) think when
>they run
>into pages that don't display properly in Safari? Do they blame
>(maybe
>curse) the developers?
>
>How many people out there say they support Safari on their
>sites? Do you
>actively test with it? If so are there known issues with
>work-arounds?
>
>We're having trouble with both Flash related and pure-HTML
>pages. In one
>case we have a frameset and a little over half the time the
>bottom frame
>never shows up. We can do a view source and all the right
>content is there.
>If we save it locally and load it's there. If we open the frame
>in a new
>window it's there. But inside the frameset, it's not always
>there--but it's
>inconsistent.
>
>Also, is there a good mailing list or forum for safari
>questions? All I saw
>was the Apple web-development list which is everything including
>the kitchen
>sink in one list (apache, dhtml, _javascript_, php, mysql, safari,
>whatever).
>Not my idea of a productive list and since being subscribed for
>a few hours
>I haven't had a single message yet, so maybe it's not active
>either.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sam
>
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