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    • CommentAuthorxexe
    • CommentTimeJun 15th 2007 edited
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    Seeing that the latest Safari release, though still beta, now runs on Windows makes me ask the question;
    Will we now be seeing SafariWin CSS hacks as we have seen with IE on the Mac?

    I'm not even sure if there is a difference between the platform versions in rendering pages and this probably won't be a immediate problem as I don't think many Windows users would make the switch being more comfortable with their common browsers but designers and developers may end up having to serve pages to this group.

    Opinions and related information, please
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    Safari on any platform still only comprises 1.5% of users, and I suspect SafariWin won't change that statistic much. Bottom line, it's hard to justify supporting Safari at all, or writing hacks for it, unless the stats change dramatically.
    • CommentAuthorvarland
    • CommentTimeJun 15th 2007
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    The difference, I've noticed, is that I only have to modify Firefox markup and javascript a minimal amount (if at all) to get it to work perfectly in Safari. IE is a totally different story.
    • CommentAuthorDandruff
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2007
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    CSS rendering in Safari is the same as in Firefox: excellent and almost always up to date, except if you want to do some nasty "on the edge of the quirk" styling, or if your HTML markup is just plain wrong…

    It's a totally different story for IE5 Mac*, since it's still totally buggy**, and there was a need for all this hacks.

    * About people still using OS9 especially, I prefer to drop the support entirely. I usually point them to the last good OS9 browser I've found, Wamcom, a port of Mozilla 1.3
    ** OSX users browsing with IE5 must be total masochists.

    Spot the old man:
    <script type="text/javascript">
    if ((navigator.platform == "MacPPC") && (navigator.appName =="Microsoft Internet Explorer")) window.location.replace("http://www.domain.com/upgrade.html")
    </script>
    • CommentAuthorPettyRider
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2007
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    If seen Safari chop up some CSS that Firefox and even IE6 can handle fine
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    PettyRider - Are you talking about Safari for Windows or Safari in general?

    Would you mind giving us a few specific examples to watch out for where Safari chokes on something that IE6 and Firefox render properly? My colleagues and I are trying to document rendering differences between browsers/platforms including Safari for Windows. Thanks.

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