OK, I finally got a Mac, what browsers do I need?

In article <leo-FF034F.16322022052006 (AT) sn-indi (DOT) vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Leonard Blaisdell <leo (AT) greatbasin (DOT) com> writes
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3) Where did you find these? I looked on Apple's web site and could only
find 1.0 to download. As that is what came with OSX, I didn't bother.

The browser version you should use will come with your OSX version. For
instance, I use OSX 10.3 and cannot use Safari 2. I won't be able to
unless I upgrade to OSX 10.4.

Ah, counts me out then as I'm using 10.2, so can't get a later version
of Safari.

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iCab & Camino can be found at the following URLs. Camino is a Mozilla
engine port to the OSX interface. iCab is in a class by itself.

http://www.caminobrowser.org/
http://www.icab.de/

Thanks for those.

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Alan Silver
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In article <ieSDu1GDgccEFwPP (AT) nospamthankyou (DOT) spam>,
Alan Silver <alan-silver (AT) nospam (DOT) thanx.invalid> wrote:

Safari 2.0.3
Safari 1.3

OK four questions here...

1) Is there any point in testing for both? I have no idea what % of
people use either.

Most people use the latest one. Mac users in general are quick to update
their OS (and Safari as a side effect). However, after Mac OS X 10.3 the
pace of upgrading has slowed down quite a bit.

Anyway, you can pretty safely ignore Mac OS X 10.2 and anything before.

2) Is there any significant difference between them? Did 2.0.3 have any
major changes or bug fixes over 1.3?

2.0.x has different image decoders. PNG gamma is b0rked in 1.x.
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/

3) Where did you find these? I looked on Apple's web site and could only
find 1.0 to download. As that is what came with OSX, I didn't bother.

If you have Mac OS X 10.2, you should really upgrade to 10.4. Safari
2.0.x comes with it. Mac OS X 10.3 users are stuck with Safari 1.3.x.

4) Can you run more than one version of Safari on one machine? If not,
which do you recommend?

The latest shipping version. (2.0.3 at the moment.)

You can also run the Safari development builds on Mac OS X 10.4 without
disturbing the shipping version.

Also, do you know if
there are any differences between FF on Windows and Mac?

The differences are mainly in the integration with platform widgets and
font rendering code. The layout engine itself is the same.

Netscape 7.2
Mozilla 1.7.12

Obsolete.

Internet Explorer 5.2.3

Even more obsolete.

Again, I check Opera on Windows, so is there any point in checking on
Mac as well?

Not really unless you use a language with a non-Western character
repertoire. It would make more sense to put the effort in testing with
Opera 9 beta.

There is also Camino and

Has the same engine as Firefox.

iCab, but usage of these is also very very low.

Maybe worth looking into though. Any idea where I get them?

http://www.icab.de/

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Henri Sivonen
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Henri,

Thanks for the reply. Looks like I'll have to think about upgrading the
OS to get the latest Safari.

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Alan Silver
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