[cosmo-dev] Safari 2

[Matthew Eernisse]

I think we should seriously consider option 1 -- discontinuing support 
for  Safari 2. To validate this idea, would it be possible to find out 
the number of Hub users are actually still using it?

Whatever we do, I think we should only be supporting one version at a time.

If we do go that route, it's worth noting that I'm in the opposite boat 
-- my creaky old G4 will not run Leopard. I would need something to run 
it on.


Matthew


Travis Vachon wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> With the release of Leopard many of us (developers and qa) are currently 
> unable to test Safari 2. I'm not totally sure what the best solution to 
> this is. Ideally we could install Safari 2 alongside 3 and continue 
> testing happily, but so far the search for easy ways to do this has been 
> fruitless.
> 
> I'd like to use this thread to consider a number of possible ways we can 
> handle this. Off the top of my head:
> 
> 1) Discontinue support for Safari 2.
> 2) Provide a semi-public instance of Tiger for testing and set 
> appropriate parties up with access.
> 3) Invest some cycles figuring out a way to run both Safari 2 and 3 on 
> Leopard.
> 4) ??
> 
> 
> For what it's worth I think we should seriously consider 1) in the next 
> few months. In my mind Safari's browser share doesn't justify supporting 
> old versions in the same way we support IE 6. That said, if a Tiger 
> release of Safari 3 is in the works it might be good to wait for that.
> 
> In the mean time I'm not sure which of 2 or 3 I find more appealing. 
> Both seem like a non-trivial amount of pain, but 3 seems like a 
> potential goose chase.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Travis
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