Safari support... when? or not planned at all

Of course we want it and we are working on it. But as stated in that page, this is not a one side job.

If you read the entire page you will see that there is a Master Bug Report in the WebKit for FCKeditor. If you want to check the current status, check that bug (an vote for it):
http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9915

Best regards,
Frederico Caldeira Knabben
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Hi Frederico,

The page http://www.fckeditor.net/safari says that Safari 1.3 has the ability to have a rich text editor. So I'm not sure what you mean by "this is not a one side job". Are you waiting for Apple to change something? Hard Core Text Editor (http://editor.asbrusoft.com/) claims only support for Safari 2. I don't know anything more about that editor.

The page http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9915 doesn't actually list any particular bugs holding up the process to support Safari. This bug report does make is seem like Safari support is getting very close which is great but which version of Safari will be supported is important to know too. If 1.3 has the necessary ability will 1.3 be supported?

Thanks,
Peter

Actually Safari 1.3/2.0 "introduced" editing support on Safari. Unfortunately it doesn't mean it was good enough to be usable. FCKeditor will be declared compatible with the first Safari version with which it will be completely compatible.

We are still working for the compatibility, but actually some work is needed from the WebKit team to make it possible to propose a professional, and mainly stable, editor for their browser. Other browser claiming Safari support are known for their buggy support of it, but I have to confirm that the latest builds of WebKit are providing very good results.

Hi Frederico,

Thank you for the reply. Would it be possible to create a rich text editor with less features than FCKEditor that is compatible with Safari 1.3? Or do the problems with WebKit make it so that no rich text editor will be stable?

The reason I ask it because even if a version of FCKEditor is released for today's newest Safari then the new version of FCKEditor will not be usable for a couple more years in many web pages since users are still using Safari 1.3 and will until they stop using OS X 10.3.

Peter

Usually a release of Safari 2.0.x comes together with a version 1.3.x, both implementing the latest WebKit. So, as soon a we have compatibility with a new version of the 2.0.x family, I believe compatibility with that same 1.3.x version will be automatic.

No promises... actually we must wait the compatibility to come, to be able to check it.

Thanks for the info about 2.0.x and 1.3.x version releases. I hope you didn't just jinx it