Safari use up 76 percent

That's up 76 percent from last year. And we're still talking about a 3.19% browser market share, according to Net Applications. Of course, as stated on the Surfin' Safari blog, the hope (for Apple) is to see more WebKit-based browsers out there too. You may recall Nokia's S60 web browser is just such a beast. Whether or not a cell phone browser will make a dent in WebKit's market share? I'll let you decide that one. In the end, I can really only hope all this great market share business is going to make some developers out there (you know who you are) work a little harder to make their websites Safari-compatible. List the worst Safari offenders in the comments, and just ignore Google, where everything is beta. Besides, it could be worse: you could be using Opera.

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Source: http://webkit.opendarwin.org/blog/?p=52

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Howard Jeffrey

I am a Camino man. I gave them all a good,long try. Safari is slow and stupid. Firefox is a clunky resource pig. Camino is fast, beautiful and stable. Why bother....

April 18 2006 at 9:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gavin

Yahoo! Mail Beta currently works only with Firefox and IE. A Safari version would rock!

April 18 2006 at 11:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

henrrrik

The shoddy JS support also means lots of bookmarklets don't work.

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

April 18 2006 at 9:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David

Salesforce as heralded champion of the online application space still does not support Safari !! How are they gonna compete with MS if some of their functions require IE - even FF is hit and miss.

Go figure.

April 18 2006 at 5:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Clark

Safari is pretty slow on my Powerbook - spinning wheels all the time. Using tabs is painfully slow at times. Javascript isn't that hot either. I do love the interface which no other browser comes close to being as good.

April 18 2006 at 1:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

desides

"Firefox is great, but ugly."

So theme it. There are plenty of Mac lookalike themes out there. There's Safire, Safire Milk, Truth-K, even a Pinstripe lookalike.

April 17 2006 at 11:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex Hutton

Javascript/Ajaxy stuff is my biggest complaint. Wordpress toolbar functionality, not working with Google...

April 17 2006 at 9:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shad

Extensions.

If Safari had a compatible Web Developer and Colorzilla extension, I'd probably move right over.

April 17 2006 at 9:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Blah

Safari just blows. It chokes on many websites, isn't updated as often as other browsers, and because it's not updated as often, it won't work with some websites.

It's not always the website that's at fault, sometimes it's Safari. That's why I use Camino. And it's much faster.

April 17 2006 at 6:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jomy

#1 Jon

I agree. If Apple created a Windows version of Safari you would see a lot less websites with compatibility issues. This is important for Apple in the long term especially as MS pushes .NET

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