[WEB4LIB] New browser for the Mac

[Kevin W. Bishop]

A brief discussion among the W3C's Working Group on CSS claims that
Apple didn't have time to include an XML parser into Safari.  Iow, XML
MIME types are not supported.  (Most of us using XHTML send it as
text/html.)  

They're also claiming that Safari -- like another well known broswer --
has problems with the box model and with 'fixed' positioning.
Unfortunately, I do not have a Mac available to me.  If anyone can point
to demos/screenshots of these limitations ... I'd appreciate it!

-kb

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Kevin W. Bishop > bishopk at rpi.edu
Communication & Collaboration Technologies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > http://www.rpi.edu/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:11 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] New browser for the Mac
> 
> 
> The Mac users among us ("the few, the proud") may be 
> interested to know 
> about the web browser announced by Apple yesterday at 
> MacWorld. Called 
> "Safari", it is only for OSX users (10.2 is required, but 10.2.3 will 
> provide the best performance). I've only just recently downloaded and 
> installed it, but so far their claims of snappy performance appear to 
> be true. It is quite fast, seems to display most pages I've so far 
> visited quite well, and even helped me snag a bug in my code that 
> Explorer mistakenly forgave me for. So, although it is still only a 
> "public beta", my advice to OSX 10.2 users is to run, don't walk to 
> http://www.apple.com/safari/ and get it. It's at least worth a solid 
> review, and the price is right (free).
> Roy
> 
>