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"Safari's available for Windows and the Mac. That means that 99% of computer users can use Safari." Firefox is available for Linux, OSX and Windows. It's open-
by mpk 17y ago
"Safari's available for Windows and the Mac. That means that 99% of computer users can use Safari."
Firefox is available for Linux, OSX and Windows. It's open-source to boot and is available in different builds and brands for different systems.
That means that 100% of developers can use Firefox, regardless of the OS they choose to run.
- zimbabwe 17y agoIf I develop in a single OS, it doesn't matter to me where else my browser's available. So if I design things without using Linux, Safari's sufficient, and there's no disadvantage to my using it. Two browsers can each be good without one rendering the other entirely useless. Safari's development environment is in many ways better than Firefox's, so why not use it when you've got it (which is 99% of the time)?
- rbanffy 17y agoI spend less than 99% of my time under either Windows and OSX. In fact, it's a pain to work in an environment without proper software management (and no, macports and Fink are not enough, at least not for me)
- rbanffy 17y ago"Firefox is available for Linux, OSX and Windows" It's also available under Solaris, AIX, *BSD, IRIX, HP-UX... That makes it very close to 100% of the desktop and laptops around. The only software I know runs on more platforms is Emacs, which I had on my WinCE-based IBM workpad z-50.