-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David D. Kilzer wrote: > Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Apparently the developers are working on adding Safari advanced >> interface support, but in the meantime I was sort of curious as to what >> the technical hurdles may have been with supporting Safari? Does Safari >> have some issues with parsing XML documents that Gecko is capable of >> handling? > > XML parsing support has been greatly enhanced (thanks ap!) in WebKit since the > last version was released with Safari 2.0.x. The first question (technical > hurdles for supporting Safari) would probably be best asked of the AtMail > developers who know much more about what Gecko features it uses. >
Yeah, perhaps I'll see if I can get them to provide me with a brain dump here so I can see if I can make headway on this myself... > Bug reports about specific failures on http://bugs.webkit.org/ are always > welcome! (Reduced test cases will help them get fixed even faster.) > >> This lack of compatibility is apparent under both Safari 2.x and 3 beta. > > If I had to guess, AtMail probably does some user-agent sniffing and disables > its advanced features for Safari without even trying them first. > > If you'd like to test AtMail against the Gecko version, enable the hidden > Debug > menu in the Safari 3 Public Beta, then try spoofing as "Firefox 2.0.0.x" on an > AtMail site to see how far you get. Again, specific bugs (with reduced test > cases if possible) will help a great deal. > > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030110063041629 > There is user agent sniffing going on, but even when forced to serve the XP or XUL interface, there are still various problems. I wish that all there was to it was brain dead user agent sniffing, but this is not the case. - -- Joe Auty UITS Messaging Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGr/nnIGoilq3QRWsRAi67AJ0cqFK9VXkXM1eWKqCrSXRE9GdjKwCgzQfa N6WBUL6dkotNgzDVwzb5s7c= =gp7y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev