Filed under: Software, Cult of Mac, Internet, Apple
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jon said 3:10PM on 4-17-2006
Release Safari for Windows --- it would be a very easy port. Internet Explorer is crap and everyone knows it. Firefox is great, but ugly. Why not hype Safari to give Windoze users a taste of OS X experience?? Couldn't hurt at least.
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john said 3:19PM on 4-17-2006
The FCK Editor still doesn't work.
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Martin said 3:20PM on 4-17-2006
http://www.raiffeisen.at is the website of an austrian bank.
The site is a total mess in Safari. I already send them an email about the issues (invalid characters in the HTML comment) three months ago.
Everyone can send them feedback through the "Kontakt" form.
(btw: the registration system also has flaws in Firefox)
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Dave Zatz said 3:20PM on 4-17-2006
I bet you a dollar that Mac's next OS iteration will contain a skinned/branded/souped-up version of Firefox as Safari.
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mark said 3:23PM on 4-17-2006
Safari is the slowest of all mac browsers, at least for me it is. :-/
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henrrrik said 3:26PM on 4-17-2006
Apparently Safari's JavaScript support is a bit spotty, that's why FCKeditor and a lot of AJAX apps don't support it.
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Fred said 3:36PM on 4-17-2006
Firefox has always been slow for me on my G4 PowerBook. I even tried the G4 optimized versions and Camino but, nothing is ever as fast as Safari.
Gap, Old Navy and Bannana Republic used to be the worst offenders for Safari compliance.
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Peter Kirn said 4:02PM on 4-17-2006
What AJAX apps don't support Safari? It seems to work with everything significant. And I don't think having rich-text editor support is really a very GOOD thing -- in my experience, they tend to generate more problems than they solve, and are much slower to use than just text-tagging.
Anyway, this is very good news, indeed. I think the combined success of Safari and Firefox should finally demonstrate to any web designers with souls that you need to support all browsers. Period.
I still love Firefox, personally, but the more choices, the better.
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henrrrik said 4:02PM on 4-17-2006
There's a Safari Compatibility Hit List over at the WebKit site:
http://webkit.opendarwin.org/projects/compat/hitlist.html
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Malfoy Roark said 4:19PM on 4-17-2006
I use Safari as backup for the few sites Opera doesnt work well for me on.
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FAO said 4:27PM on 4-17-2006
The problem with Safari is that you need to upgrade the OS system to upgrade in the browser
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henrrrik said 4:27PM on 4-17-2006
Peter Kirn>
Off the top of my head: Google Calendar, Writely and AjaxWrite.
I don't use WYSIWYG editors either, but I don't see how Safari not supporting them is a good thing.
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christine said 4:36PM on 4-17-2006
I would use Safari more if it had the ADBLOCK function that Firefox has. any suggestions? I've tried pith helmet, not a lot of luck with it.
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Justin said 5:01PM on 4-17-2006
As far was webkits go I like Shiira
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henrrrik said 5:29PM on 4-17-2006
christine>
Try SafariBlock, you can find it at www.pimpmysafari.com
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Blue Balloon said 5:36PM on 4-17-2006
Safari slow when have plug-in on. So, I turn it off to make much quick and less memory
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SubGenius said 5:48PM on 4-17-2006
#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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Brad said 6:16PM on 4-17-2006
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.
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shad said 9:17PM on 4-17-2006
Extensions.
If Safari had a compatible Web Developer and Colorzilla extension, I'd probably move right over.
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Alex Hutton said 9:52PM on 4-17-2006
Javascript/Ajaxy stuff is my biggest complaint. Wordpress toolbar functionality, not working with Google...
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