SJK  Yeah, lack of Safari support killed my interest in Splunk.  
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MAC OS X 4EVER  I can't believe so many users are oblivious to FireFox.

Safari sucks. There are no plugins for it and you have no control over it.

FireFox can do just about anything.

It's a plus that it doesn't work with Safari!

Maybe it will help new users that don't know any better to discover FireFox.  
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SJK  What a daft comment. Some of us consciously prefer Safari to Firefox; read http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/firefox_3_safari_3 for some reasons why.  
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MIKAELF  Hey kids!

You know you can use both...right?

/Mikael  
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MONDELE  I happen to be someone who typically has a dozen browsers on my machine, but I do agree that to require a non-Safari browser for a piece of software will limit its acceptability. Web standards are there for a reason, and to make a web-based interface that won't work with a standards-compliant browser is, IMHO, shortsighted.  
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ZANGIEF  Ugh, Firefox is waaaay slow, even Mac-optimised builds like Minefield. No Safari support means less users.  
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MIKAELF  Firefox is 3.0.1 is not slow and is the more compliant browser on the web and it exists on all platforms. Obvious target for any smart web developer.

Splunk's mac customers is probably less than %1. Look at what they do and there reference customers. How many of those do you think run Mac OS X server...I would say very very few....

/Mikael  
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ZANGIEF  Safari's fine by me and, after previous experiences with FF, I don't have any plans to switch.  
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ZANGIEF  And might I add that web development is a hobby of mine.  
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MIKAELF  and IT is my profession since -90....

/Mikael   
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ZANGIEF  Safari didn't even exist then.  
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MIKAELF  Seriously...it didn't? I thought the internet was there...like..always.

The browser and the web apps is nothing but the "emperors new clothes" for an old block mode terminal. Only in the last couple years have AJAX technology spiced it up a bit but the principles are still the same. Text strings back and forth over a stateless transport protocol (http).

/Mikael  
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ZANGIEF  Firefox doesn't support CSS3 from what their official website says. Safari does.  
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MIKAELF  Now you're being silly. There are far more websites that recognizes Firefox than there are Safari compliant ones. I never said I didn't like Safari, it is my default browser on my Mac. Firefox is the default on my Windows and Linux environments. I'm just more pragmatic...if Safari doesn't work on a website I'm visiting and I'm on my mac...I start Firefox. Big deal.

Now, go get yourself a job....

/Mikael  
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ZANGIEF  I'm 13. How am I supposed to do that?  
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MONDELE  Mikael,

I think what you are missing is that if Splunk were written in a standards-compliant way, it would work with Safari. I don't know of any deficiencies of Safari that would keep it from working with the kind of behavior we are looking for from Splunk. As I mentioned, I tend to use a lot of different browsers, and I use the one that I think will work best for a particular purpose. I do tend to use FireFox for web development because of the plugins that expand capabilities in that regard, but Safari is a fine browser, and many people will feel that it is the only one they need. If Splunk will not run with Safari, it is a valid comment to say that it is therefore a non-starter. Splunk may run fine on Linux and Windows, and on the Mac with FireFox, but this is MacUpdate, and the Mac users here have a legitimate concern if it doesn't function with the default Mac browser - the one with which, presumably, they are downloading Splunk. Telling people that they are silly for their software choices is a uniquely unhelpful means of persuasion.  
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SJK  Well said, mondele.  
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MIKAELF  My god...

I didn't say anyone was silly because of what software they were using. Then I would be silly too since Safari is my default browser...did you READ my comment? I thought the line of arguments was silly...

Why Splunk doesn't work with Safari is probably because it's heavy usage of AJAX technology and frankly, there aren't enough demand. It's simple, no development org have unlimited resources so you prioritize and if there isn't a business case...why waste resources? If/when enough of Splunks customers complain and they lose deals...there will be Safari support, I'm sure.

/Mikael  
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VRH  I use Splunk with Safari all the time and it works fine. They just don't support it "officially," but it works. There are a couple display related annoyances under Safari, but nothing intolerable. Those annoyances are not present when using Firefox.  
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