[Grovenet] MACs for Christmas

[Jeff Howden]

David,

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> From: David Morelli [mailto:jo.david at verizon.net]
> 
> [...] The Safari browser and Mail client work securely,
> except when they have problem with non W3 standard
> servers (MS). [...]
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As this falls squarely in my territory, I have to add some clarification.
The servers themselves aren't what are causing your problems.  Put
differently, it doesn't matter that the server that you're getting your
webpages from is a Microsoft server or something else.  What matters is
whether or not the web developer spent the time to make sure what he/she was
building works correctly (enough) for Safari.  As Safari represents a rather
insignificant market share, it's likely that some developers
don't/won't/can't take the time necessary to check things in Safari.  We
include checks for support in Safari at my company, but for many companies
that's non-standard.  Additionally, it's possible, depending on what version
of Safari you're running, that the problems you're encountering with certain
sites are actually bugs in Safari and not a problem with what the server is
sending you.

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> [...] In fact my biggest software gripe is the absence
> of a free Macintosh version of Access database.
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Probably *seriously* over-powered for basic, every-day use, but MySQL [1]
and PostgreSQL [2] will (probably) both run on your Mac.  If you haven't
already, you might give EagleData [3] a try.

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html
[2] http://www.postgresql.org/
[3] http://www.eaglesoft.de/eagle/eagledata.html

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> Maybe my general satisfaction is related to the fact
> that I don't do computer games?  That really seems to
> be a big draw for PC machines.
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I don't play games on my computer; that's what consoles are for.  The first
few years of computer experience were all on Macs.  Somewhere along the line
I got fed up with them and haven't looked back since.  To this day, I still
find lots of things about them that annoy me.



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