Their reasoning? Because Apple has too much of an advantage, since they
produce both the OS and Safari, a browser, and so have advantages in
integration and such.
Does anyone else remember a certain MS lawsuit? Where MS said that
making both browser and OS and integrating them didn't give them any
advantage? Yeah.
But, anyway, no more IE/Mac (which, btw, has a really screwy DOM
implementation and drives people like me nuts).
--Ben
Matthew Small wrote:
> I don't know why anybody needs to use Safari, I have a brand new eMac
> and it's got IE 5.2 which works great most of hte time. Is MS not going
> to make any new versions of IE for OSX?
>
> - 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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