The google chrome browser is under development so on some date, it will work on Linux as well as the Mac. Right now, google chrome is the most secure of the browsers out of the box.
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, David Poehlman wrote: > yes, if... so why not just use what is there and ask apple for good clean > help? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <bhawkesle...@googlemail.com> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > theblind" <disc...@macvisionaries.com> > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 11:35 AM > Subject: Re: firefox, mozilla and voiceover: > > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, David Poehlman > <david.poehl...@handsontechnologeyes.com> wrote: >> Firefox like any other application can be made to be accessible just like >> any other application. > > I think they're aiming for something a bit better than that; they're > trying to make the web accessible, not produce a half-accessible > application that nobody will use. > > If Firefox uses custom controls, but the Accessibility API is broken > by design so that its provision for custom controls is unusable (e.g. > no notifications for custom controls), or broken by implementation > such that the custom controls make VoiceOver unusably slow, then > there's really little value in the exercise of trying to integrate > with VoiceOver. > > There might, by contrast, be some value in improving the Fire Vox add-on. > > The interesting question, I think, is why Opera seems to be having > better luck with VoiceOver integration since I'd assume they too are > using custom controls. It may be they've essentially postponed > worrying about some of the critical issues Mozilla is trying to solve, > like Live Regions. > > I haven't exactly heard any rave reviews of their performance from > this list. I don't know if that reflects caution about trying Opera or > problems with the software. > > I've seen some very strange navigation ordering in Opera, but then > I've seen similarly bizarre navigation ordering in Safari. > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
