attention safari users

[rone]

Never mind that you're too lame to switch to Firebird... there's some sort of vulnerability that allows malicious servers to steal your cookies. So fix it. Or switch. Or kill me.

Comments

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

I agree -- Camino is still better than Firebird, although Firebird does improve with each release. I love Thunderbird for email, too. Launching each separately is way more reasonable than launching the full Mozilla suite.

I don't like Safari much, especially since its CSS, Unicode, and XML support are still behind what the Mozilla/Firebird/Camino people have to offer. But I will tolerate it over IE any day, of course. In fact, I have deleted IE on some of my machines. Cuz, ew.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Lots of things about Safari irritate me (substandard TITLE attribute support, the oddball bookmark interface), but the thing that keeps bringing me back is that its tabs have little close widgets. For some reason that's become important to me. (However, the means of indicating the active tab is backwards and therefore bad-- it constantly trips me up when there are only two.) Safari also has marginally better UI performance than Camino to my eyes, but the difference is small these days.

Camino developed a cosmetic problem from the pointless change to the system tab widget that happened in Panther, but it still works fine.

Firebird keeps losing its scroll bars on me, especially when I mess with themes.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I tried themes for a while and Firebrid got all wonky. So i don't do that anymore. Themes are stupid, anyway.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

By the way, I think that while the Mozilla Gecko engine is still ahead in CSS and XML support, where Unicode is concerned, Safari's support (which I think is really OS X system-level code) and Gecko's are actually neck and neck right now. Each one falls down on some oddball cases that the other handles with grace, and they're both pretty good at handling the common usages.

It used to be that the OS X system support was only used by OmniWeb, and Apple was way ahead of the Mozilla team at the time, so that while OmniWeb barfed on every other Web standard in the universe, it was the unchallenged Unicode king. But Mozilla caught up.