I have a tech question

[lizwilliams]

I'm using Safari. I'm in the process of updating data on someone's website, a PHP (?) database, but it's stopped updating - it just sits there. It worked fine with IE.

Any thoughts?

Comments

[shawn-scarber.livejournal.com]

Is there a javascript validation script? I know Safari does really weird stuff with the document object model. You might be able to turn off the javascript in Safari and do the data entry without validation (of course, that could cause other errors), or you could rewrite the javascript for Safari.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Right! Many thanks for this. I'll check it out.

Try Firefox instead

[(Anonymous)]

Safari is a nice product that appears to have some issues with current web standards. I note that it doesn't quite support GMail, which uses lots of heavy duty Javascript in standard mode.

Try installing a current version of Firefox. There are some things (mostly extensions) that don't work on the Mac, but AFAIK, it runs and supports current web standards. (Mozilla based browsers were problematical on OS/9 Macs -- the underlying model was completely different from any other platform Mozilla code ran on, and the Moz developers finally threw in the towel and took Apple's advice to wait for OS/X, so Mozilla 1.31 is the last version of the suite to have a port to OS/9, and Firefox was never built for it. OS/X is based on a flavor of *nix, and much closer to what Moz code is developed for.)

I believe Firefox on OS/X doesn't render as quickly as Safari, but everything else should work fine. (Not a Mac user, and going by other folks comments in Mozilla oriented areas. Mac users running FF who read this are welcome to correct me.)
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Dennis