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However, your point was that Apple needs to be careful where it enters a market. The obvious risk is offending a third party developer. I agree to this. My point was that yes, MS was dropping the ball with Explorer. Apple had a choice to either endorse a Gecko based browser or develop their own browser to ensure the Mac Internet experience was first rate. When offering the choice of Safari vs. Explorer, I didn't mention the Gecko based browsers because Safari is not a threat to the opensource community.
So, your choice already assumed that the conclusion that Apple should make their own browser instead of endorsing a Gecko based one. It's that assumption I took issue with.However, your point was that Apple needs to be careful where it enters a market. The obvious risk is offending a third party developer. I agree to this. My point was that yes, MS was dropping the ball with Explorer. Apple had a choice to either endorse a Gecko based browser or develop their own browser to ensure the Mac Internet experience was first rate. When offering the choice of Safari vs. Explorer, I didn't mention the Gecko based browsers because Safari is not a threat to the opensource community.
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I also mentioned how MS declared that future versions of Explorer will be built into Windows rather than as a stand-alone product. I also mentioned how this clearly signals the death of Mac Explorer with or without Safari.
Windows IE and Mac IE used two different rendering engines, so I don't see that as a clear signal of IE for Mac's death.I also mentioned how MS declared that future versions of Explorer will be built into Windows rather than as a stand-alone product. I also mentioned how this clearly signals the death of Mac Explorer with or without Safari.
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As to web standards, there are areas of CSS handling that Safari is apparently ahead and "more accurate", etc.
It handles some CSS shadow tags and whatnot, but still utterly fails some much more basic tests. I'd point them out, but sites that document Safari inadequacies are linked at Dave Hyatt's web log (where he also documents problems and fixes).As to web standards, there are areas of CSS handling that Safari is apparently ahead and "more accurate", etc.
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Additionally, there are key features in Safari (like spell checking, etc.) that are not found in Gecko based browsers.
Spellchecking is a bad example.Additionally, there are key features in Safari (like spell checking, etc.) that are not found in Gecko based browsers.
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However, in some cases, Apple has turned the Mac from being worst to best in a few specific categories. That's been a good thing thus far.
I'll go along with that for the most part, but I'm not sure that Safari has made the Mac best for web surfing (at least from the perspective that it can't handle broken, proprietary web page code which is an unfortunate reality of the web for now).
However, in some cases, Apple has turned the Mac from being worst to best in a few specific categories. That's been a good thing thus far.
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