Comments on: Apple updates Safari with version 3.0.2 for Windows (beta)

This security update for Windows users piggybacks patches for Apple users.

[TenBees]

vulnerabilities

and I thought Apple's software was immune from security vulnerabilities.

What a relief to know they are fallible.

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Wow apple has holes

this thing has not been out that long and its been patch twice not even ie 7 beta was patch 2 in that short of a time and yes i know its a beta but this is just sad. not really and why does apple think that we windows user nned a 4th option when it comes to browser we are happy with our 3 choices already and unless you are doing something total unique then dont even bother waste our time.

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Re: Wow apple has holes

before mac started porting safari to windows i had to walk over to our mac test machine in order to test my web application on safari. now i don't have to. i can sit right at my pc and use a virtual machine running xp with safari installed. so i'm happy that they did this port. i will say that safari 2.0 and 3.0 aren't without their bugs and are just as non-standard in browser compliance as early versions of ie! BELIEVE ME I KNOW THIS FIRST HAND! safari is designed to be "the fastest" and as a result their browser doesn't follow all the rfc's that are written by the www folks! for instance, they have a faster back button that *always* pulls your page from memory cache instead of checking with your web server. this happens even when the web server explicitly tells the browser to not cache the page. it's a nice feature i suppose unless your using secure website (like your bank) and upon logging out you can still use the back button to see all the private information.. as a developer you have to go through huge hoops to get safari to not cache your secure pages.. every other browser follows these ruls.. but people continue to believe that macs are better in design and much more secure! at least that's what the mac users are preaching.