[Ti] Safari Dagger

[David Remahl]

On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 01:48 AM, Michael Bigley wrote:

> Opera is the only one who wants to make money on their browser, and it 
> is a simple fact of life that Mac was a secondary project for them. 
> Apple has been getting it's butt kicked in the browser wars for 
> years... the only time I have envious of a Windoze user was when I 
> watched them surf the net.  It was clear no one was interested in 
> getting their Mac browser to parity with Windows in performance.

Agreed.

> OmniWeb is a part time project of passionate Mac people. Rumor is that 
> they will adopt Safari's KHTML engine into their next rev.

Disagreed...In fact, Omni Group does have financial interests in 
OmniWeb. It costs roughly $40. It is far from the only thing Omni does 
- but software development is more central to the company than it was a 
few years ago, when the NeXT consultancy business was flourishing.

Of course, Omni Group's employees are definitely passionate Mac people, 
but they are not doing charity.

> There is not slap in the face when something like Safari was a need 
> not being filled by these folks.

Safari is great. The more different rendering engines that get wide 
distribution, the more important it will be for web developers to make 
sure their code is standards compliant. Simply checking your website in 
Netscape and IE for Windows shouldn't be enough - working towards 
standards compliant code should be.

If Apple makes Safari the default and only preinstalled browser in 
future system revisions, then that is certain to make a great 
percentage _not_ run MS IE, which is one step away from a monopoly that 
is hurting the Web.

/ Regards, David Remahl