Safari [was: Most "universal" type of video file?]

[Mark Smith]

On 14.05.2008, at 08:54, Hacker Scot wrote:

> I'm not trying to trash on Safari - I'd use it too for its speed and  
> elegance and fantastic CSS support if it just had a  plugin  
> ecosystem like FireFox and if its JavaScript/Ajax support didn't suck.

But we already have an extensible browser that bends over backwards in  
attempt to accommodate everything that JS might toss at it. This  
browser is Firefox and I think that one such beast is sufficient.

In any case, most mac users use Safari.

OK, its the installed default, but I hardly think that is the reason  
why (if I'm guessing correctly) most people here use Safari as their  
main browser. Perhaps it has to do with the following:

Speed
Stability
By far the best CSS support of any browser
Easy to maintain
Better interaction with the OS and other apps

Some of these things are, at least in part, a consequence of the  
absence of a "firefox-like plugin ecosystem"

Some other aspects:

color support
font rendering

In my use, the JS issues are minimal and for the handful of worthy  
sites where this is significant I either - look for an alternative  
site and/or fire up Camino.