- Matt Small
----- Original Message -----
From: Samuel Neff
To: CF-Community
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: Is Safari really prime-time ready? Do we need to consider it supported in our apps?
We only have one user that hit our site with Safari. Unfortunately, he's an
important guy who is pretty high up in the bosses hierarchy.
BTW, NEA--National Education Association--is not Govt, they're an
independent non-profit. We've done a lot of work for them and at one point
they did ask for NS3 compatibility, claiming that their portal site gets a
significant number of hits from NS3. Not sure why and I never saw the logs
to verify.
The site we're having trouble with is a gov't only internal site but
unfortunately a lot of people around here have Macs, including all of our
bosses. Mostly they're still OS9 with NS4 which is enough of a pain, but
they're gradually moving to OSX and I imagine will start using Safari.
We're having trouble guaging the cost to support Safari since the browser
appears to behave inconsistently, hence the question here.
Thanks,
Sam
-----Original Message-----
From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:55 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Is Safari really prime-time ready? Do we need to consider it
supported in our apps?
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
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