On Sep 20, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Nick Fitzsimons wrote: > Personally I tend to use the nightly builds for testing as they run > alongside Safari and I can't sensibly get rid of 2.0.4 by installing > 3 Beta. For example, I encountered a layout issue yesterday and by > downloading the latest nightly was able quickly to determine that it > was a Safari issue which was fixed on more recent builds, thereby > saving myself the time of trying to work out if I'd done something > wrong which was merely being tolerated by the other browsers. > > If anybody out there is currently testing their stuff for Safari on > the version 3 Beta, either Mac or Win, and thinks that if it works > there then it's "OK in Safari", I would suggest they seriously > reconsider their position. Version 2.0.4 will be around for quite > some time to come. Yet another browser to support... <sigh />
I'm not so sure that relying on nightly builds is a fully accurate testbed for what will be Safari 3 whenever it is released. A few weeks ago a problem with Safari 2 was mentioned on this list (involving floats and adjacent block formatting contexts - a problem that also exist in Konqueror 3.5.7). That problem did not exist in nightly WebKit builds, but did persist in Safari 3.0 beta. And from testing backwards with a few older WebKit builds, that problem was fixed there well before Safari 3 beta was first released. The problem with WebKit, as I see it, is there doesn't seem to be a clear cut branching policy, in the way Gecko has (which is easy to track in the Gecko rv numbers in the UA string). Personally I have the Safari 3 beta installed, the standalone 2.0.0.4 version I linked to in a previous message, and download the latest nightly WebKit builds. I do the same for Gecko browsers . Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
