Relatively popular Mobile community site Sms.ac doesn’t support Safari . May be its because its in Beta but they must have considered Safari browser at least in Beta phase. Proof below. This is Windows and IE World

I primarily use Firefox at my Windows machine but in Mac i use Safari ( why? ) . But there are multiple things i dont like about Safari than Firefox. One of them is how Safari shows popup confirmations to remember passwords . Safari doesn’t let you go past the password page till you decide yes , not now or never in its confirmation popup. I dislike this. I love the way Firefox handles this. In older version of Firefox such popup were there but in latest ones its removed with a pretty good banner at top which appears till some time after you passed the password page. Safari behavior is specially annoying when you ask Safari to remember the password and it happens to be the wrong password. ( so may things so many passwords you know ). The way Google Chrome handles is the advanced one among all the browsers i have seen. Its very intelligent. 

Safari and Internet Explorer match in this case because latest version of both Browsers use similar popups where your input is a must to go to the next page.. Safari and IE friends . Seems unconvincing huh..

At my office, i had some HTML things to work with .It was about dropdown combo box with more than 1 visible items ( this means HTML Select tag with size more than 1 like <select name=”macphobia” size=”2″> ) I was playing around with the w3cschools’ tryit editor in different browsers . It was working fine with expected results in IE , Mozilla firefox in my office Windows XP machine but i did the same thing in Safari in Windows the result was not what expected. Safari was not showing the number of visible items in Dropdown to what i had defined the HTML select tag rather it was showing all the elements in the drop down options. This was weird and surprising to me . Below are different results of my tries . It seems that whatever the number of size you give as visible items Safari will always show 4 itmes . Continue reading »

I , and many others , have seen that Apple’s new mail service MobileMe at me.com is not fully supporting latest version of internet explorer preinstalled in windows vista ( IE 7 ) . Today i noticed that Microsoft’s Hotmail also doesn’t support Apple’s Mac OS X latest browser -Safari . Though Hotmail loads fine and inbox can be viewed without any problem . But as soon as I go to the dropdown link option at the top right corner and choose “link other accounts” i got the error that the browser is not supported . Below is the proof. Is this because of Safari is not supporting Microsoft silverlight . This is the only clue i get . I dont know what other can be the issue with safari to show that error.

Now everyone knows and its clear that Apple’s MobileMe ( www.me.com ) is a fail .  Since the release of MobileMe there were many issues . Even Steve Jobs has admitted that MobileMe was not upto the Apple’s Standard in a mail sent to Apple employees. In its initial days i wanted to have look at what MobileMe actually has so i signed up keeping my Credit Card at risk. Well there is a free trial period to use MobileMe services but at cost of keeping your credit card number to Apple’s Database. Continue reading »