Most "universal" type of video file? (Web browsers)

[Hacker Scot]

On May 14, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/firefox_3_safari_3

No doubt Safari has advantages in fit-and-finish. But for me it's a  
pretty cut and dried choice:

- Once I started using del.icio.us bookmarking I became totally  
dependent on the FF del.icio.us bookmarking plugin. Giving that up  
would be a big step backwards in convenience and functionality.

- I use the web developer's extension plugin many times per day.  
Wouldn't be willing to give that up - it's part of my workflow.

- Between day job and my side business I manage or am involved in more  
than 100 WordPress installations. And I have to constantly tell my  
users, "Sorry you lost your paragraph formatting - Safari doesn't play  
nicely with the visual editor in WP - try another browser."

- At work we sometimes lead journalists through the process of feeding  
data to Google Maps with Google Docs spreadsheets. Safari is  
constantly losing worksheet tabs, refusing to copy/paste between  
fields, and getting otherwise confused -- Safari can't fully handle  
the Ajax used at Google Docs, so again, we're telling our students we  
don't advise using it for that task.

Maybe the last two aren't Safari's fault and it's actually handling  
Javascript so "correctly" that these things don't work. All I know is  
that Safari failing at these tasks means  I'm forced to suggest  
another browser fairly often. And that Safari would have to be light  
years better than FF to compensate for its lack of plugin architecture.

./s



--
 >>> Birdhouse Hosting <<<
Custom web and mail hosting services
http://hosting.birdhouse.org