Full FeedSafari is all the buzz, but with a buzz comes a sting
Safari has recently made the news quite a bit, but not for reasons Apple should be proud of. First, back in February, Safari was caught red handed using undocumented API’s that were not yet available to third party developers. These frameworks were said to give Safari a speed edge over other browsers and sparked a minor controversy stating that Safari was “crippling” other browsers. Then, in March, iTunes users on PC’s received a nice little surprise in the Apple Software Updater. What was this? Apparently, Safari 3.1 was included with the iTunes update, causing Windows users and the Mozilla’s CEO to accuse Apple of “forcing” the download on their customers. Not to shortly after, also in March, a MacBook Air was the first to fall in this year’s Pwn2Own hack contest. How did this happen? The hacker, Charlie Miller, achieved access of the system through a Safari security bug that involved opening a port the hacker could telnet through. Soon after this, in April, some Firefox users ran tests with the new Firefox 3.0 beta 5 and found it to be faster than Safari 3.1, just shortly after Apple claimed Safari was the “fastest browser.” That’s three bad months in a row. Get it together, Apple. If you claim Safari is, “[T]he world’s best browser,” on your site, make sure it is. Right now people are really upset with it and that’s no way to get its market share up.
However, despite all this bad news, Safari is still a great, functional browser. Getting a 100/100 on the most recent Acid 3 Test proves one of Safari’s strong points, web standards. This is great for web developers and really eases the process of making a website. Another area Safari is glowing is the mobile browsing marketplace as it is the most popular mobile browser in the US. So come on Apple, you can do better. I love Safari, so give me more reasons to stick with it.
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Safari is still my favourite browser, but I’m forced to look for an alternative at times. Since upgrading to Leopard, I’ve had Safari crash many, many times, and it is almost unusable behind the proxy server at work. https pages in particular are a problem - Safari nearly alwyas crashes during the authentication process.
on April 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM - LINK