Hi all,
I have encountered a problem whilst trying out different browsers. When I tester our web – androidportal.sk using Safari for Windows, I ended up getting constat refreshes.
The same thing happened when I tried accessing your demo website.
Do you know about this incompability? Also, some of our readers started complaining that the font we use and is displaying correctly on Chrome, Firefox or IE isn’t displayed correctly on Safari – see the discussion here – http://goo.gl/jlMrTZ
Lukas
Safari for Windows was abandoned Summer 2012 (2 1/2 years ago!) by Apple and does not support the latest web tech, and should not be used for anything, frankly.
Theme works great in Safari on all other platforms. But Safari “for Windows” is an abandoned product which hasn’t been updated in forever, may not be secure, and should not be used by anyone at this point.
Oh, wasn’t aware of this! Thanks for clarification Chris! 🙂
Chrome is a superb replacement. I hate Firefox since two of our machines got hacked using that and Avast (neither of which we’ll ever use again!).
Safari on Windows was always a bit ‘half baked’ – kind of like early versions of Chrome (oh, say, versions 1 through 20).
Chrome has become a very good browser, in my opinion. And it’s awesome being able to use it on the iPad to second guess what folks on Android tablets might be seeing.
I still use IE11 as my daily driver on Win7/64 just because I want to see what the “average joe” is seeing and not the “web elite.”
I’m still amazed the TagDiv themes work on oooold stuff, though. I tested the sites on WinXP (virtual machine) with old IE and Firefox, and they still worked. Really surprised. This was few months ago and pre WP 4.1 and latest theme versions, but didn’t expect that.
Exactly my thoughts. I have been a Chrome user for a long time. I still have Firefox installed, because I want to see how things look for people using it. And, as you said, IE is also my gold standard for ordinary people. Be it at work, where nothing else is installed or people who are not technologically sound.
Either way, I love what tagDiv achieved!
I tried clearing the cache and that worked but then today, had same problem. I realize not many people use Safari on Windows – but there are still about 5% of users with this browser so? Not sure why it has this issue. Just trying to eliminate problems and upset audience.
I don’t think any theme developers are going to worry about support for Safari for Windows at this point as it’s dead and buried, unfortunately. I don’t think it’s even been patched for all the various security issues like SSL3, etc.
ideally some kind of user agent should pop up a message as is done with IE6, saying “You’re browser is out of date and insecure and was abandoned in 2012 – please instead use a modern browser like Chrome or Firefox”
I was actually trying to figure out how to do that using the normal snippet often used for IE6/7 users ….
Anyway. I’m now going to update my site to 1.4 and see what blows up 🙂
Let us know what you think about 1.4! 🙂
