On 3/21/07, Nick M wrote: .... > I've called Apple support before, they all but hang up the phone on me. > I was trying to get more information on when Safari would begin would > work Kerberos Authentication. They guy didn't know what that was, and > basically told me he couldn't help me, and there wasn't anybody there > that could. We have a reasonable size contract with Apple, so I was > fairly surprised by that.
I've had the same experience, but reversed. I guess it depends on who you call / know, (well, I *know* it does, re: Gateway). I really just wanted to give some kudos to Safari-- have you checked out it's baked in debugging stuff? Lordy! I wish FF had some of that! They ARE getting stuff out the door-- it's NOT like Internet Explorer-- heck, Safari has put out new versions pretty regularly, I think FCKEditor might even be able to work with it now ;-) They're slow, but not THAT slow. I use it over IE, any day of the week. I think that Apple still has a smoother user experience-- I'm one of those "hey dude, help me set up my comp"s, and I can set up anything, so I see anything (I had 10 sun workstations for a while... ;-), but mostly I see PCs and Macs. There are some problems that are universal, like "my multi printer doesn't do X", or whatever, but in general, hooking up a camera or whatnot is pretty seamless with OS X. I bet it's a lot better in Vista, but it wasn't seamless in XP- I have people in the labs ask about downloading video off their stuff for PCs more than Macs. See, one of the things that pisses me off about the Mac is /how freaking simple/ stuff is. I'm not used to that. I'm used to obscure twiddling*, and whatnot, vs. "just drag the thing over the thing" type stuff. Lots of times it turns out that there is some easy way (and note: intuitive, for someone who isn't conditioned to PCs) to do what I want, but I'm used to looking for some "PC" type of way of doing it, vs. just "doing it". *obscure twiddling -- computer centric ideas instead of "life" centric, if that makes sense. Macs got that "physical" manifestation Jim spoke of.. :-/ **thank god for BSD-- I use the terminal the most outta all my mac progs. ;-) PCs are a lot better, but there's MUCH less calls for help from my Mac people. And Note: I'm better with PCs- er, well, have more experience. :] Heck, I used to have people call and ask how to plug the parts of their new PCs together-- Since color coding and stuff, it's much better, but that's an area where Apple has excelled as well. It's more even now, but I'd still give a slight edge to Apple. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231070 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
