[cosmo-dev] Safari 2

[Ted Leung]

Not to add any more confusion, but as of 10.4.11, Safari 3 is the  
default on Tiger, as well...

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306297>

Ted

On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:21 PM, 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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