Safari however is still a big problem. It’s still fast and nice to use but why does it have to be treated so different from the other browsers? Almost any site I try to use that employs Javascript, especially all the new Ajax-driven sites, don’t support Safari. Why is that? Is Safari still broken or are scripters just being lazy? If Safari is broken then why haven’t Apple fixed it after all these years. A neat trick Safari hackers can use is to turn on the usually hidden debug menu . This allows you to make Safari appear to be another kind of browser to the outside world. In that way sites that automatically screen fro Safari and bounce you to some kind of unsupported browser page get fooled into thinking you’re really using Firefox, for example, and let you in. So far using this masquerade I’ve found few problems, though some functions in heavy Ajax sites like writely.com don’t work. So is Safari really always the problem or do webmasters need to update their browser compatibility list?

Anyway on the subject of writely.com, check it out, it’s perfect for many routine word processing tasks and have some powerful collaboration features built-in. It can even be used as a weblog post editor. Because it has a spell checker built-in too it makes editing posts using Firefox a pleasant experience. I may never use MS Word again. And if Apple’s listening, unless they fix it I may never use Safari again either.