Yes, for some reason Safari doesn't appear to have a plugin architecture or at least I've not run across any plugins for it. I guess plugins lean toward one side of the capability complexity trade off. You can add lots of neat new stuff but you might blow up your browser. Probably for 99% of the surfers out there they don't really care about plugins but web developers live by them. Especially ones like Firebug or the accessibility toolbar. If all I want to do is 'use' the web then Safari should be the fastest way to do that. Maybe because they don't support plugins their code could be cleaner?
CB James & Nash wrote: > Hi Chris, > > The only downside to using Safari is that it seems that you cannot > install Firefox plugins due to the open source nature of FF. However, > perhaps this has changed in the past year. > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com> > *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:22 PM > *Subject:* Re: Firefox and Flash > > Firefox 3.5 came out last week but I was disappointed to find > accessibility has not improved. That is, other than the window > title and menus (stuff generated by the OS) it was entirely > inaccessible. I was hoping there would at least be the first > glimmers of VO support. That said, Safari still trounces FF (and > all other popular browsers) in Javascript performance. > > CB > > James & Nash wrote: >> Not from waht i've read and heard. Shame but hopefully it will be by >> the >> end of this year. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "william lomas" <lomaswill...@googlemail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:54 PM >> Subject: Re: Firefox and Flash >> >> >> >>> but the browser itself is not yet accessible to us, right? >>> >>> On 7 Jul 2009, at 17:27, James & Nash wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I believe that the one for Firefox makes the Flash content into a >>>> buton >>>> which can be pressed. Not sure about the Safari one though. >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "william lomas" <lomaswill...@googlemail.com> >>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:13 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Firefox and Flash >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> yeah but is there one which enables access to it? smile >>>>> >>>>> On 7 Jul 2009, at 14:50, Alex Jurgensen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> There is a plugin for Safari that disables Flash. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Alex, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 7-Jul-09, at 1:35 AM, James & Nash wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Will, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Once Fire Fox becomes accessible with VO you'll find that there >>>>>>> is a >>>>>>> plugin >>>>>>> which helps blind users cope with the increasing prevelance of >>>>>>> Flash >>>>>>> on the >>>>>>> web. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Take care >>>>>>> >>>>>>> James >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
