I like that the Safari web browser is built on the KHTML rendering engine, but that's where my love for it ends. It's not a popular browser, and the only thing that seems to be keeping it afloat is Apple's support for it. It's not a good browser to develop for, there are things you just can't do with javascript in Safari, that you can do with the other popular browsers.
I could see Safari eventually catching up to the rest, but they have a lot of ground to cover. And they would need to get their users to upgrade quickly. I for one don't think it's a browser worth supporting.
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Annoying as fuck that it doesn't support stuff, yeah, and I'm sick of having to keep another browser around just to use sites that don't support Safari -- but using FF for any length of time makes my eyeballs feel gritty.
Double click some plain text in the body of a page and then drag. Now do the same in the location bar. Note how in the location bar it selects by word whereas in the body it does the first selects by word and then drags by letter. Everything else on my mac works like the location bar.
Inconsistent user interfaces are evil.