On Feb 2, 5:17 am, Colin Mollenhour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know about this particular case, but I see Safari crash all the time
> when handling JS. Not just hang or error, etc. But hard crash.Man I know I'm
> going to get flamed for this, but that is *lame*!!
It certainly is. Clearly a good number of web developers don't write
robust code that degrades gracefully. Far too many simply program in
IE or Firefox, test in the other, and that's it. It is simple to
write script to "crash" a particular browser if you want to.
I have been using Safari for a number of years from home with a
variety of on-line banks, e-commerce sites, share trading, etc. and
generally it works fine. Since about version 1 it was good enough for
me to not use Camino/Firefox at all. I can't remember it ever
crashing to the extent that I had to kill it.
> I remember one of my professors always trying to use Safari in-class on the
> projector and it would occasionally crash for seemingly no reason... Is there
> really any reason at all for Safari to exist?
Yes, for the same reason that IE exists.
> What is wrong with Firefox on Mac?
Nothing, but Safari is the default Mac browser and has a number of
nice features that Firefox didn't get until 2.0 (though Firefox has
many more features and is much more developer oriented).
> I mean at least there is an *excuse* for IE existing,
If you can defend the existence of IE, then it shouldn't be hard to
find excuses for Safari.
> And everyone hates Internet Explorer and it's users... go figure...
Trying to provoke responses from both sides? :-)
I think bug-for-bug (or maybe that should be non-standards-compliant-
behaviour to non-standards-compliant-behaviour), Safari has far fewer
than IE 6 (and probably IE 7). How many browsers need try..catch to
do XMLHttpRequest? And MS invented it!
The big difference is that people have been working with IE for so
many years that they know most of its bugs and the work-arounds.
Safari is relatively new and still maturing, a large number of web
developers simply write it off as you have, yet tolerate IE. Go
figure.
They should either complain just as bitterly about IE or deal with
Safari in silence.
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Rob
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