Re: Apple releases its own Web browser - Safari, based on KHTML

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:18 PM, James Craig wrote:

>
> On 1/8/03 3:04 PM, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>> As Konqueror, KDE's [http://www.kde.org] native Web Browser, is 
>>> quite good in
>>> CSS 2.x support (and XHTML/XML)
>>
>> Safari has no XHTML/XML support yet, since they have not ported the 
>> XML
>> parser.  There is no eta for when it will happen.
>>
>> And frankly, almost all browsers available on the mac at this point 
>> (IE/Mac,
>> Opera, Gecko, Safari) have comparable support for the things you list 
>> and all
>> are a good bit ahead of IE/Windows... I doubt web designers who did 
>> not care
>> to support IE/Mac will care to support Safari.
>>
>
> The CSS box model and 'fixed' positioning in Safari both seem faulty 
> as well
> as form support in XHTML. It's probably snagging on the closing slash 
> in the
> <input /> tags. For now, I'd rather stick with Mozilla or IE5 on Mac.
> Chimera is another cool Cocoa browser, but it's <1.0 and buggy as well.
>

Safari does not yet support XHTML/XML (anything sent as an XML MIME 
type).  It will work more or less with "tag soup" XHTML 1.0 sent as 
text/html (like wired.com).  We are currently working on an 
implementation of the QT components necessary to do XML parsing, but it 
wasn't ready in time for beta.

Dave Hyatt
(hyatt@apple.com)

Received on Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:47:53 UTC