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Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Apple at 9:38 am on Thursday, 17 August 2006
I really like the Safari Browser. It’s fast and minimalist. RSS support is quite useful too (though you can’t easily import OPML - wtf!).
But many complex websites don’t support it. It seems to have major CSS problems and editing control issues. I therefore use Camino (which is based on FireFox) as my main Mac Browser.
This note on Safari from a Rich Text Box control vendor reveals some of the frustration.
The Safari Team seem to be out on their own. There is some split from the KHTML core. What’s going on here? Does anyone know what the deal is?
Is the next major Safari update in Jaguar? Will that allow Safari to be my #1 Browser?
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I would love to use Safari as my main browser, but it is just not viable. It isn’t just Apple though. We’ve been testing the beta of IE7 and this is now much more based on true XHTML rendering that you would expect from Firefox, which is good. However it is basically not going to be backwards compatible with sites that worked fine in IE 6. We are having to update all our CSS across all our sites and applications to ensure IE7 is supported properly. Why these guys think that anyone wants to have to try and support their unique interpretation of the W3C standards I just don’t know! Browser compatiblity is a nightmare for all web developers and each new release of each browser seems to bring with it a fresh load of issues.
On windows I’d stick with Firefox but on my Mac I’ve started using the Safari based Shiira http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/index.php
Still in development and it doesn’t play nice with gmail but otherwise a great browser.
And this on Writely Blog …
http://www.google.com/support/writely/bin/answer.py?answer=38914&topic=8616