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Announcing the Safari Compatibility Hit List

Posted by Geoffrey Garen on Monday, March 6th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

The WebKit site has a new addition: the Safari Compatibility Hit List.
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It’s a top ten list of sites needing compatibility work. The Safari Team at Apple developed the Hit List with two goals in mind:

First, to show people that improving website compatibility is our main goal. The list is a snapshot of the most prominent sites on our radar right now. (Of course, the list will change as we learn about new bugs and resolve old ones.)
 
Second, to draw open source developers’ attention to a concrete, measurable set of improvements we can make together. If you’re hacking on WebKit, please review the list regularly and see if there’s a bug you’d like to pitch in on. Testing, writing bug reductions, suggesting work-arounds, and pinning drown problematic sections of code are all helpful, even if you don’t fix a website all by yourself.

I can’t make any promises, but I spoke with Chuck Norris’s agent, and Mr. Norris is considering round-housing a few websites for us. All I can say is, it’s a bad day to be a compatibility bug.
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8 Responses to “Announcing the Safari Compatibility Hit List”

  1. Joost de Valk Says:
    March 6th, 2006 at 3:42 pm

    Go ggaren! Nice work, let’s get this list to be a fast moving one!

  2. Joshua Ochs Says:
    March 6th, 2006 at 3:55 pm

    Odd, I don’t see any such link on the sidebar, and none in the article. Great idea, but where is it?

  3. ggaren Says:
    March 6th, 2006 at 3:57 pm

    Joshua, the link should be there now.

  4. gelosilente Says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 11:27 am

    my router has a web interface for configure it, but is not usable with safari for a frame problem.

  5. ggaren Says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 12:42 pm

    If you can describe how to reproduce the problem, that would be a great bug to file in the Bugzilla database, bugzilla.opendarwin.org.

  6. sulka Says:
    March 9th, 2006 at 6:10 am

    I’m very, very happy to see TinyMCE being targeted! Excellent!

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  8. bugsmi0 Says:
    July 18th, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    when I try to open webkit, nothing happens, It use to work is it compatiable with 10.4.7 ?