Mac's Safari browser

Safari and DHTML

[henry0]

Hello

A site user just sent me a note about not being able to navigate my site with :
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.. I'm running Mac OSX 2.6 and Mac's Safari browser
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I asked the person if he runs also IE for Mac, which should help.no answer yet.
anyone using the same browser? on same Mac machine.

is that Mac with Safari known for having problems with a
DHTML nav bar?

the site aside nav bar is PHP and MySQL driven
it is a fairly new site but already get about 100k visit/month and no one else complained about the nav.

any input?

I may send you a mail with the address

thank you

[john316]

Safari is still considered "beta", I wouldn't lose sleep over the issue. If you have access to a linux w/kde machine, you might want to check the site with konqueror, which is probably as close an equivalent that you will find.

[henry0]

thank you
yes I dev on Red Hat both 8.0 and 9.0
which work fine

thanks for the info
did not know about that beta browser

[tedster]

From what I can see, Safari is going to be a force to reckon with. All the OS X folks I know in the music industry are raving about it, and they're very loyal to Apple who developed it. Mac/Safari is already bigger than Win/Netscape on one of my sites.

Yes, right now there are some funky javascript and CSS issues (DHTML) which I hope Apple fixes really soon. It reminds me a lot of the limitations we saw in Opera 6.

[henry0]

Tedster, I did not notice any significant number of hits generated by that browser

which kind of stats do you reads from your sites
are those sites targeting the group you described?

Then my choices are either redo a nav bar
or create an alternate
redoing is the easier for it's called by PHp include

any other thoughts?

thank you

[tedster]

That one site with the increasing Safari use is frequented by musicians - who tend to use Macs for their music production.

As was said earlier, this version of Safari is considered a beta, and it will improve. Most of the Safari users are early adopter types and they will upgrade - so I wouldn't get into drastic amounts of work to accommodate Safari.

However, I do think that a site needs to have some navigation that doesn't require DHTML. If a site depends on js and css for basic navigation, then Safari may not be the only problem lurking in the wings.

I have a "DHTML Cascading Menu" rant that I'm tempted to go into again, but I'll spare you from the rerun.

[henry0]

Yes I know exactly what you have in mind or did :)
I am in the same boat!