On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:41 AM, Mledie at aol.com wrote: > When you say it is a beta version. What does that mean and what > significance > does this have?
Programmers refer to software as a "beta" version when it is still in testing and they're looking for bugs. Apple released Safari in a "public beta." Basically, this means that they want all the users to beat on it and find the bugs for them. With something like a Web browser this approach makes sense because it's the only economical way to try it out with millions of Web sites. I have found Safari to be very stable, but I've still sent off three bug reports when pages didn't load correctly, or Javascript wasn't interpreted properly. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
