Sorry folk, this is all I have at the moment, but perhaps greg or others can 
shed more light?


From: Soulskill
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software



spikedLemur writes "Vladimir Vukicevic of the Firefox team stumbled upon 
some questionable practices from Apple while trying to improve the 
performance of Firefox. Apparently, Apple is using some undocumented APIs 
that give Safari a significant performance advantage over other browsers. Of 
course, "undocumented" means that non-Apple developers have to try and 
reverse-engineer these interfaces to get the same level of performance. You 
really have to wonder what Apple is thinking, considering the kind of 
retaliation Microsoft has gotten for similar practices.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.







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