| Wednesday, January 8, 2003 |
13:48 - Hammer and Tongs
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/01/07.html#safari_review
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Aimed at web designers and CSS-heads, Mark Pilgrim has posted a detailed set of observations on Safari and what it does and does not do properly. It looks as though it might become sort of a clearing-house page for these kinds of observations, as it has links to numerous test cases and other sites' reviews, as well as updates from readers (which include Safari developers, who are clearly very interested in following-up on any compliance test cases they can find to work on).
So far, what I've seen encourages me quite a bit. It turns out that most of the bugginess I've seen only occurs on the first run-time; subsequent times you run the program, after it's created its various pref files and things, are much smoother. And I'm seeing mounting evidence that Apple is ravenous about gathering feedback about this thing so they can improve it to prime-time quality before release.
All I really need is some kind of text focus and navigability in drop-down <SELECT> menus, and I'll be able to use it just fine.
Incidentally: it turns out that the problem with my own blog page in Safari was that the <PRE> block up above had the following form:
<FONT SIZE=-2><PRE>
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</PRE></FONT>
But Safari is more strict about style than IE or other browsers, on this issue; it interprets <PRE> as a complete font override, and so it ignored my <FONT> setting. (This happens in <TT> blocks as well.) I changed it to:
<PRE><FONT SIZE=-2>
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</FONT></PRE>
...And now it's fine.
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