Three days after releasing Safari 3.0, Apple has issued its first patch of the beta software: Safari 3.0.1, which fixes three flaws in the browser including security vulnerabilities. Although the issues found in the first beta release were surprisingly numerous, security researchers are applauding Apple for pushing out the update so quickly. Apple has often taken weeks or months to release patches and updates in response to vulnerability concerns. This is the first time that Apple has released a version of Safari for the Windows platform. Because it now can be run on a much larger number of systems, the code has been getting more attention from the security community.
News source: InfoWorld
News source: InfoWorld
It doesn't matter if this is "beta" or not. If a security bug is found, it must be fixed. Period.
No, this is something that needs to be fixed in a beta. It's out there so people can test it, and who the **** would want to even touch it if its going to screw up their entire computer. I can understand not quickly fixing something that may cause the browser to crash, or how it may render some pages strange, but a security flaw HAS to be fixed, or else their is no point in even having a beta if its going to put the testers at risk.
I disagree entirely, you are all totally overreacting, i ask you this, is their any virus, application, anything at all that takes advantage of the vulnerability that was discovered, the answer from what i have seen is no, therefore being beta i expect they woudl release a new beta or even release version that fixes the majority of issues found in the beta (probably in a couple of weeks) had the issue not been so dramatised, instead they have released a patch which fixes a couple of the issues but stilll has a high number of other known issues which are to the end user causing more issues, e.g most users will not care about security, however will care if they can't load their web pages.
i do not see how you can claim "who the **** would want to even touch it if its going to screw up their entire computer" i have seen any evidence of the security issue causing any issues, but if you can point me in the direction of any exploits that use this vulnerabilty then i agree with you it should be fixed,
People that install beta do so at their own risk, if they don't understadn the consequences of beta software they shouldn not install it, and yes i did not see any warnings on the mac website of the sort which i think is a very bad thing, and what casued most of these forums. The fact is bet is beta and most if not all betas are released with known issues, so just by the fact of what beta software represents you are at risk using beta software whether there is a security issue or not
So I think from now on any time some random Mac Zealot (please note I'm only talking about the fanboys, not the average mac user) tries to pull that excuse, I'll tell them that by Apple releasing patches so quickly here and so slowly on the mac just shows much better windows is for developing stuff :rofl:
for the first time. Fire in the hole?
it looks absoutly horrible! it looks like a blur filter over the text..
it looks absoutly horrible! it looks like a blur filter over the text..
You mean this? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
They do it differently, doesn't mean it’s wrong. Far as I’m concerned the Apple way looks better. Though they probably should have an option to use the rendering method of the OS.
it looks absoutly horrible! it looks like a blur filter over the text..
You mean this? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
They do it differently, doesn't mean it’s wrong. Far as I’m concerned the Apple way looks better. Though they probably should have an option to use the rendering method of the OS.
Nice link. Being a designer myself I definitely prefer Apples way, but strangely enough I can see the logic behind both approaches actually.
Seems that peoples reception to this could have been predicted...
Hmm, but it's a good start of course.
and sits there for 30-45 seconds before the page loads. Once it loads, then you can refresh and it pops right up.
Firefox doesn't do that. I'm just curious. Other than that, I don't see anything wrong with it. The more browsers,
the better.
that's what I was thinking
I go with the first option. If they knew about the bug they could have just made a new build that day and posted it.
But it's not about stability, security or quality at this point. Turning out a new build after three days will rejuvenate the download counts for the news report on it's first week of availability.
Form over function, of course.
If I create a username with no accents, however, Safari runs without any issues. This is exactly the type of problem that I had with Democracy Player about a year ago.
What's with this lack of support for users with accented names? Has anyone found a way to get around this bug, other than removing the accents from their name?
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