Mac users usually stay on top of things better than PC users. Most of them have likely upgraded to Safari 3.
On Jul 10, 6:34 pm, "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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!
