Problems with Safari browser and WordPress
September 25, 2007 6:49 pm by Basil
¶ If this post is hard to read, it’s because I’m using the Safari browser to write this on a WordPress blog. ¶ You see, I got a MacBook computer recently. And I’ve been trying out all the functions of a Mac as I make the change from 20+ years of PC computing. ¶ Now, to be sure, I do like the MacBook. I like it a lot. Oh, sure, there are some differences. But the main thing is, the MacBook is easy to use. Really easy to use. ¶ But it’s not perfect. ¶ You see, Apple has their own browser: Safari. ¶ It’s a fine browser, to be sure. It’s pretty fast. Everything on the Mac is fast. Except for my Microsoft Office 2004 suite. ¶ So, Safari is fast. But it has a bug with WordPress. ¶ Now, if you don’t use WordPress, you might be just fine. But WordPress and Safari don’t play nice together. ¶ It seems that if you use the Visual Editor for writing … and I do … the paragraph formatting screws up. ¶ How bad? Well, you see those little paragraph marks all through this post? That’s where I put paragraphs when I wrote this. ¶ And, you see how this has all run together as one big paragraph? That’s because of the bug in Safari. ¶ Now, there are reports that the new version of Safari has solved this issue. ¶ But it hasn’t. ¶ You see, I’m using Safari 3.0.3 (522.12.1) … and WordPress 2.2.3. ¶ Yes, that’s a beta version. But it’s the version that they say has the issue fixed. And it doesn’t. ¶ So, excuse how this post looks. But it looks this way because Safari 3 hasn’t fixed the bug. ¶ Which means I’ll continue using Firefox. Which I like. And won’t be using Safari. Which I thought I’d like … and would if Apple would get off their butts and get it fixed.
Try Opera
There’s also Camino, also done by Mozilla. That’s my #1 browser.
I personally like Firefox more than Safari, Opera, or IE, simply because it is the most versatile. You can’t even change the skins on Safari! How cheap!
You can also use marsedit if you arn’t married to posting via a browser, Thats what I did with my brief experiment with wordpress and it worked fine for me. It isn’t freeware though so that sucks.
Yup, looks pretty strange.
Firefox is what performs the best and the most consistently on my Ubuntu system.
I’m done with Windows and Mac.