Sunday, March 14, 2004

Safari css bugs bug me

Safari is Apple's browser for Mac OS X. For the most part I like it, however I'm finding it's interpretation of CSS colors to be quite annoying. CSS defines system colors like InfoText and InfoBackground so that inept designers like myself can piggy-back on the UI colors which the user or system has chosen. This has worked ok for me on MSIE, Opera, Netscape, and Fire{bird,fox,etc} on Windows. However it's been a mixed bag on Safari on OS X, with the immediate result that InfoText and InfoBackground are the same color (with 1.0.2 on 10.2).

What this means is that after creating a careful, non-denominational, ecumenical stylesheet that should work across all browsers, I've had to retrofit a bunch of ugly hacks into a Safari-specific stylesheet. I've reported it as a bug a couple of times but have seen nor heard of any response or fix. I'm hoping it's fixed for 10.3 which I'll upgrade to in the next month.

e.p.c. posted this at 15:13 GMT on 14-Mar-2004 .

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