Safari 3 Beta Updated, Security Problems Fixed 302
Llywelyn writes "Apple has released an update to the Windows Safari 3 Beta. According to Macworld the updates '...include correction for a command injection vulnerability, corrected with additional processing and validation of URLs that could otherwise lead to an unexpected termination of the browser; an out-of-bounds memory read issue; and a race condition that can allow cross-site scripting using a JavaSscript [sic] exploit.' It is available through either the Apple Safari download site or through Apple's Software Update."
Horrible International Language support (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Horrible International Language support (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:not worth it (Score:5, Informative)
Leave the box blank and the check-box ticked and it still downloads.
Re:not worth it (Score:2, Informative)
Now if they would fix the text problem... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Now if they would fix the text problem... (Score:5, Informative)
Mini-review of Safari on my home Vista install: The non-standard Windows UI is annoying. If I wanted to resize only from the bottom right corner I would have bought a Mac. The lack of an advertisement blocker makes the software a poor alternative to Firefox. The bundling is annoying. I don't want Quicktime. Quicktime is ugly, ugly software. It makes Firefox crash, grabs all sorts of MIME types, throws its icon up on the desktop every time it updates no matter how many times you delete the icon, it installs a systray icon (for a media player?!? come on), and it won't play full screen videos. ITunes is only a good media player if you own a Ipod. Don't want that either. The Apple update service is annoying as well. Why a separate service? I want my apps to check for updates when I start them or not at all.
Good points? Well, Safari displays web pages, I guess. Good for Apple.
Re:Hosed fonts (Score:2, Informative)
It's a beta. Safari 3 hasn't been released yet. The only version number worth paying attention to is the build number (and that assumes it gets updated properly--I don't know what the updated version's is, but I assume it's not 522.11)
And also, did you report the issue to Apple?
Re:Semi-OT: is there a hotkey for tab-switching? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Future recommendation? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Horrible International Language support (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Horrible International Language support (Score:3, Informative)
As another poseter pointed out, the handling of international character sets is different on windows than on the mac so its not surprising that something works properly in the mac version of safari and not in the windows beta. Obviously apple will need to fix these issues, but its not surprising.
Awesome, now I can read /. again! (Score:3, Informative)
But maybe it's just as good to not have any sensationalist headlines to mislead you?
Re:Now if they would fix the text problem... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Horrible International Language support (Score:5, Informative)
Unicode font rendering (automatically selecting the a font which contains a particular character, because generally no font contains all Unicode characters, and if one did exist, it probably wouldn't be the text font in use) is a different matter altogether.
Mac OS X does sane font substitution when faces don't include a particular character. On Windows, AFAIK, typing a Japanese glyph when using a font that doesn't support that code point will result in the square block--on the Mac, the type renderer will find the closest visual match (in terms of style) for a font that does include the code point and use that for those glyphs.
It's not a bug (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Hosed fonts (Score:2, Informative)
Look here (for XP): C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME HERE\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\Fonts.plist
You can edit this file and hack in the basic Internet fonts you need, or try plugging in the Fonts.plist file from a machine that did display the fonts correctly.
The apple forums are saying if you have thousands of fonts installed it's probably the cause of the problem.
Here is my hacky solution file if you need a starting point.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Names</key>
<dict>
<key>Lucida Grande</key>
<string>C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\Lucida Grande.ttf</string>
<key>Lucida Grande Bold</key>
<string>C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\Lucida Grande Bold.ttf</string>
<key>Lucida Grande Bold.ttf</key>
<string>C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\Lucida Grande Bold.ttf</string>
<key>Arial</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf</string>
<key>Arial Bold</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALBD.TTF</string>
<key>Arial Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALI.TTF</string>
<key>Arial Bold Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALBI.TTF</string>
<key>Verdana</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdana.ttf</string>
<key>Verdana Bold</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdanab.TTF</string>
<key>Verdana Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdanai.TTF</string>
<key>Verdana Bold Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdanaz.TTF</string>
<key>Times New Roman</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\times.ttf</string>
<key>Times New Roman Bold</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\timesbd.ttf</string>
<key>Times New Roman Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\timesi.ttf</string>
<key>Times New Roman Bold Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\timesbi.ttf</string>
<key>Helvetica</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\HVL_____.TTF</string>
<key>Courier New</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\COUR.TTF</string>
<key>Tahoma</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\tahoma.TTF</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
Re:Horrible International Language support (Score:2, Informative)
That is absolutely correct. Internationalising applications for Windows is easy.... until you get to those tricky East Asian languages. Then you're in for a world of pain.
Re:Naturally (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.htm
Re:Naturally (Score:3, Informative)
Sure they'll be this quick in the future, right up until it leaves beta, then they'll actually have to do full regression tests which will take longer and have a turn around time aout the same as the Mac version.
It always amazes me when I hear people complaining about bug fix times from vendors who take between one and six weeks to get a bug into production. Those are normal turn around times assuming the vendor starts work immediately on a development/testing cycle for a large, production software project. After reading the comments here, I get the impression most Slashdot posters have never worked in a real software development house. I doesn't take a genius to see the turn around for bug fixes for a beta that does not need to be tested other than a quick smoke test is going to be a hell of a lot faster than a final release.
Re:Controlling the media (Score:2, Informative)
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.htm