Safari 3.0.4
Posted by Charlie Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:48:00 GMT
Last summer, we talked about our difficulties in supporting Safari 3. At the time, Safari's SVG support was fairly buggy. It didn't correctly recognize mouseover events on features when a map was offset from the top left corner of the page. It also would "lose" features as you dragged a map - they flash in and out of existence.
The good news is that both these issues are fixed in Safari 3.0.4. The bad news is there is one major flaw left - if you drag a map you'll see that once you are finished the features snap back to their original location. The reason for this is that Safari is not correctly updating the SVG transform that we use. It is possible to work around it, but it equires having a separate code base for Safari verus Firefox and Opera. However, Safari's market share is now large enough that its worth doing. And of course we'll submit a bug to the WebKit project to let them know about the problem.