The Macintosh crowd is all abuzz about the new Apple web browser, called Safari. It’s apparently based on the KHTML rendering engine, and has a few bugs. The problem is, this makes Yet Another Browser that web designers have to worry about, because Safari has it’s own unique set of bugs different from other existing browsers. Mark Pilgrim asks should Safari be intentionally buggy?
My answer would have to be, “Yes. Temporarily.”
Since the Safari developers are actively listening to the community and working to fix the biggest deficiencies as quickly as possible, they should adopt a short-term strategy with a long-term goal. Introduce a Safari-specific method for hiding CSS from that browser for now. But with the understanding that they will work as hard as possible to make Safari fully compliant with the standards. Once that goal is reached, the bug is removed.
My suggestion for a bug:
/*\*/
this is hidden from safari
/* */
One Response to Intentional bugs?