Wednesday, January 8, 2003

Safari Response: scottandrew.com. Scott Andrew writes in his blog: Word is trickling in about the new Apple browser called Safari, which was apparently announced at Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld SF. The rendering engine is built on something called KHTML, which may be the KDE library of the same name. Apparently built for speed, the Apple page boasts of support for XHTML, DOM, JavaScript and Unicode, but provides no details as to the level of support (according to the docs, KHTML itself only supports DOM Level 1 and CSS 1, so I don't hold out much hope) for these technologies. KHTML supports much of DOM level 2 and CSS2, including the DOM level 2 event model (e.g., mutation events too!) and rich selector syntax (even a little bit of CSS3 selectors). In addition we have added and fixed CSS support in a number of key areas, including partial support for min/max-width, better support for z-index (including support for auto z-indices), and better support for the CSS white-space property. [Confessions of a Mozillian] 5:46:32 PM

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