for those geeks who haven't noticed yet...

[blufive]

...There's a new web browser on the block.

[ok, link frenzy!]

Apple announced a new browser named Safari yesterday. It's based on the same engine as Konquerer, so it's fairly standards-compliant. Mark Pilgrim is doing a fair job of documenting issues; Codebitch wasted no time checking its CSS abilities, and Safari programmer Dave Hyatt demonstrates how good developers react to this kind of thing.

So, combined with the news that Chimera is doing very nicely, it looks like Mac OS X has a real browser war on its hands.

Comments

Re: New browser?

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

The whole thing with AOL sitting on IE drives us nuts, because customers read their weblogs and say, "Oh, nobody on AOL visits our site." Yes they do... the weblogs just count them as IE. Arg!

And just when are they going to dump the IE for the Netscape code they bought? When, huh?

Re: New browser?

[blufive.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned, they're already using gecko on mac, at least. I've seen some very fuzzy stats today (and all stats are fuzzy, of course) suggesting that AOL accounts for about 5% of browsers. If you can actually get at the raw logs, AOL does show up in the user agent strings, but most stats packages are clueless about that sort of thing.