Some Safari Issues to watch out for

Wasn’t sure to classifiy this as bugs or just things to watch out for

Here’s 2 known issues Modx has using Safari Browser

1. unable to install Modx using Safari when you type in dabatase name the browser closes, instead of Safari Mac users can use Camino this works perfectly with Modx, would be nice to have Safari work with it though

2. weblinks are not being redirected to the URL instead an error page occurrs
“lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005)

at first I thought I was doing it incorrectly but then I tried it in camino browser and the URL was directed to the weblink url

there are perhaps more issues with Safari but these are 2 that I noticed.

Typically for Mac users anything that has to do with administrator or manager area Camino Browser is the prefered browser it works, Safari unfortunately doesn’t play well with admin areas.

The manager in safari should get better in the next release, but won’t quite be where it will ultimately wind up.

Thanks for the report on the redirects. Please log it in the bugtracker so it doesn’t get lost.

Also, as of this time, Safari will not do RTE’s.  It is a limitation of the KHTML/WebKit engine Safari is based on. See this page for more details:
http://www.fckeditor.net/safari.html

For me, it doesn’t get any better than FireFox with the web developer plugins.  I use camino as well, but the browser is seriously lacking in useful features, plus it is full of irritating little nuances like when I tab in FF or safari, it tabs through all the form boxes on the page, then to the URL bar on top. In Camino, it never goes to the URL bar.

Another promising looking browser is the Sunrise Browser [ http://www.sunrisebrowser.com/en/index.html ].  Unfortunately it is, like Safari, based on KHTML/WebKit, but it has a lot of nice web dev features like autoresizing of the viewport, translucent overlay of HTML source, etc...

-sD-

Its really a shame Safari is an ultimate browser experience and to have little things not up to speed its just an insult to mac users lol

i’ve used FF in the past and didn’t like it, too slow and the spinning death along with frequent freezes just was too much to bare, Safari opens up at the speed of light and its display of CSS is remarkable to say the least.

Wwhat are the developer plugins you spoke of is that in FF ? Camino has worked well with the modx manager, will check out the ole FF once again to see how its coming along. I think maybe camino is even faster on the open will have to put them to a speed test

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60

I can’t even begin to describe how useful this has been in developing and debugging my CSS!
It does everything from outlining all block level elements on a page, to outlining the element you are currently hovering your mouse over (as it displays it’s css path on the bottom bar!), to disableing elements, to page validation, etc..., etc..., etc...

If you do any sort of HTML or CSS development, this is a must have!

-sD-

p.s. you are absolutely correct. In OS X, FireFox is a beast and takes at least 6 dock bounces to open on my g4 powerbook. (If you don’t use OS X, disregard the dock bounce reference). Safari and Camino are much quicker, and display pages imaculately. But I stick with firefox for the WebDev plugin. It is the ultimate tool for CSS and XHTML writing.

I have to say those developer plugins for FF are very handy, interesting in validating CSS many warnings on

you don’t have background-color with your color
you don’t have color with your background-color
same colors for color and background-color in two contexts

or it will say i have no background color in the body tag even though I did have one

what are they insane what if i just didn’t want a background color lol, many of these are links, no need to define a background color on a link if you don’t want want.

who invented these silly CSS rules he he,

The w3c invented them, but MS sure doesn’t like to play by other people’s rules...

Just use the color "transparent" to get rid of those warnings.