Safari version usage

Many people still on Jaguar?

[Robin_reala]

We're trying to work out whether to drop support for Safari 1.0. It seems really buggy compared to 1.2+ and just sucks up development time.

I know that Jaguar users are limited to Safari 1.0, but a) are there many of them left and b) do they use Safari over IE5 / Gecko browsers? Unfortunately I can't find any relevent stats on the matter and our stats package doesn't track that accurately.

[dcrombie]

Here's a summary of approx. 2,000 hits from Safari on our server in the last 48 hours.
The version numbers have been rounded (and I excluded myself).

Safari/85 (14%)
Safari/100 (1%)
Safari/125 (11%)
Safari/312 (48%)
Safari/412 (25%)

Hope that helps ;)

[Robin_reala]

Thanks! What sort of audience does your site get incidentally?

[dcrombie]

What sort of audience does your site get incidentally?

Those stats cover a lot of sites, all different types and countries. Nothing too specialised or technical.

I just ran a command-line script over the combined_logs:

awk -F\" '($6 ~ /Safari/){print $6}' combined_log \ 
 ¦ sed 's/Mozilla.\+Safari/Safari/' ¦ sed 's/_Adobe//' ¦ sed 's/\.[0-9]\+//g' \ 
 ¦ sort ¦ uniq -c ¦ awk '{print $1"\t"$2}'

[jetboy]

And what versions of Safari (1.0, 1.2 etc.) do these (presumably build) numbers correspond to?

[dcrombie]

Glad you asked:

[developer.apple.com...]
(plus, there was another version released today: Safari/412.5)

[jetboy]

Good information to have. Thanks.