Salesforce Confirms Safari Support
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It's official: Salesforce CRM tools work with Safari on Mac OS X machines.
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A growing set of developers is setting to work making Web browsing on a phone match the experience on a PC.Skyfire, a startup in Mountain View, California, joined the fray on Monday when it unveiled a free browser intended to support everything a PC browser can. That includes Flash video, Quicktime, Javascript, AJAX, and more, though not everything may be there right now, according to Nitin Bhandari, Skyfire&#39;s CEO. The browser is now in a private beta test for U.S. users only. The software was demonstrated at the Demo conference in Palm Desert, California.Apple&#39;s iPhone changed the mobile browsing world last year when it drew a huge following with its Safari browser. Unlike most browsers for phones, it lets users view a full, standard Web page all at once and zoom in to make up for the small size of the screen, though it doesn&#39;t support Flash video and some other standard Web features.Meanwhile, more opportunities have opened up for third parties to get any sort of application onto a consumer&#39;s mobile phone. Parts of&#160;Google&#39;s Android development environment&#160;are already available to developers, and Apple is preparing a software development kit for the iPhone. Both Verizon and Sprint Nextel, two of the biggest U.S. operators, have outlined plans to allow any device and any application on mobile networks.&quot;The iPhone has pretty much settled the debate. People want a rich, full Web experience,&quot; Skyfire&#39;s Bhandari said. &quot;There&#39;s a lot of consciousness that that&#39;s the bottom now, and everything now has to be there or above it.&quot;Since the phone&#39;s June debut, Mozilla has started developing a mobile version of Firefox, which looks somewhat like mobile Safari in screenshots on Mozilla&#39;s wiki. However, Mozilla has been vague about when that software will come out. Norwegian browser vendor Opera has its own mobile browser, Opera Mini.Skyfire&#39;s product will be set apart from Opera Mini and others by supporting the full browsing experience, Bhandari said. It does so by relieving the phone from some of the heavy lifting of presenting a Web page. In fact, a server transcodes every page into an efficient protocol that Skyfire has developed over the past 18 months, he said. The additional exchange of packets between phone and server to make that possible isn&#39;t a problem, because the server can carry out tasks much faster than a phone, according to Bhandari.&quot;The delay added by the server is actually such a small percentage of the time we&#39;re actually saving ... that it&#39;s actually a huge benefit in the end-user experience,&quot; Bhandari said. Skyfire operates the servers in its own datacenter.Skyfire can deliver full versions of popular Web sites, such as YouTube and ESPN, as demonstrated in a YouTube video. The zooming function, the critical tool for viewing full-size Web pages on a small screen, is different from the iPhone&#39;s &quot;pinch&quot; and &quot;unpinch&quot; gestures. A gray box appears over part of the Web page, and users can size that box to cover the area of the page they want to see full-screen, then tap on it to zoom in, Bhandari said. The browser also features a search bar and a tab with featured links in categories including news, sports and video.The browser is available only for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 today, but a version for Symbian, as well as an international beta test, are coming later, Bhandari said. Skyfire might also develop versions for Android and for the iPhone once Apple&#39;s SDK becomes available, he said. It is talking with handset makers and mobile operators about having the browser built into phones, but also sees search and advertising as possible revenue sources.In addition to invited testers, a limited number of public users will be allowed to participate in the beta. They can sign up at Skyfire&#39;s Web site.
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The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 2.0.0.8, introducing support for Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' in the release.
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(InfoWorld) - Apple Inc. Friday issued security updates to patch four vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and the Safari beta, marking the second time in eight days that the company has had to fix its newest browser, which runs on both Mac and Windows XP and Vista machines. The 2007-006 update for Mac OS X 10.3, "Panther" and 10.4 "Tiger," fixes a pair of problems in Safari -- the production-quality versions bundled with the operating system -- including a memory corruption vulnerability that could end with an attacker in control of the Mac. "Visiting a maliciously crafted Web page may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution," Apple said in its alert. The second bug, and to Apple, the less serious of the two, is a cross-site scripting flaw (XSS) in Safari that could be used by phishing sites to steal usernames and passwords. Apple Friday also updated the Safari beta, first released June 11, to version 3.0.2 for both Mac and Windows. Mac Safari 3.0.2 patches another XSS bug, while the Windows edition fixes that, plus a separate vulnerability that could let an attacker disguise the browser's address bar, perhaps as part of a spoofed site meant to trick users into divulging confidential information, such as bank account passwords. For Mac users, 2007-006 and the Safari update are mutually exclusive. If a Mac user has installed Safari Beta 3, only the Safari update will be offered; users who haven't bothered to try out the beta will see only the standard Mac OS X update. Windows users can update Safari to 3.0.2 by downloading the new version from Apple's site, or by running the optional Apple Software Update utility. The just-patched Safari bugs were credited to a team at Adobe Systems Inc., as well as to researchers at Westnet, an Australian Internet service provider, and Westpoint Ltd., a U.K.-based security company. None were accredited to Dave Maynor, one of several researchers who dug up vulnerabilities within a few hours of Safari 3.0's launch last week. Maynor, who said he had found half-a-dozen bugs straight away, refuses to disclose his findings to Apple, part of a year-long feud that goes back to a wireless hack demo Maynor and another researcher gave at last August's Black Hat security conference. "Due to the cries of 'it doesn't count, it's beta,' we are waiting to release any further information till the browser is released in a final state," Maynor said in an e-mail earlier this week.
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ASG, an enterprise software provider to Global 5000 companies, recently announced the general availability of ASG-Safari(R) version 8.4. ASG-Safari(R) addresses every facet of report creation and data management.
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(InfoWorld) - Seeking to assist software developers coping with many languages, IBM plans to offer its Safari technology to the Eclipse open source community, an IBM official said at the EclipseCon 2007 conference on Thursday. IBM describes Safari as an Eclipse-based metatooling framework intended to speed the building of sophisticated development environments, or IDEs, for new or existing programming languages. The project is moving toward becoming an open source Eclipse technology project. The basic idea is to incubate the technology and start to build a community around it, said Robert Fuhrer, an IBM research staff member involved in Safari. Developers these days must deal with multiple languages and technologies, and Safari is intended to make that easier. IBM has languages being designed that already represent mixes and interactions between technologies such as Java and SQL, Fuhrer said. "These are problems that real developers face today and we need to play catch-up and get the right kind of tooling support for those kinds of scenarios," Fuhrer said. "The reality of software development at this point is lots and lots of developers are faced with mixes of languages in lots of different varieties, particularly in a Web platform," Fuhrer said. Safari supports features such as parser management, syntax highlighting, and re-factoring. Static program analysis and debugging also are goals. The project offers language service-creation wizards, class libraries, and "code skeletons" to get a language service-implementer started. IBM's Web site on Safari said the effort has been driven in part by the need to build full-featured IDEs for language research activities at the company. One activity to benefit from Safari is the development of a JavaScript IDE, taking place at IBM's Tokyo Research Lab. Other IBM research projects impacted include X10, which is a Java-derived language; XJ, featuring XML access and Java, and the JikesPG grammar language specification. Accommodating multiple languages within Eclipse was the subject of panel session at the conference on Thursday. Safari was noted during the session, as well as the reality that Eclipse has grown beyond its origin as a platform for Java development. Doug Schaefer, a senior software developer at QNX Software Systems and the moderator of the session, said: "It's gotten pretty clear that Eclipse isn't just Java anymore."
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(InfoWorld) - Google and Salesforce.com will announce a partnership on Tuesday, a source close to the company in Europe said Thursday. Salesforce.com has scheduled an online news conference on Tuesday at 11 a.m. GMT at which Lindsey Armstrong, co-president of the company's operations in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region, will make a "strategic announcement." The source said it is safe enough to assume that the announcement concerns Google. In the U.S., Salesforce.com has said that it will make an announcement with "a leading Internet company based in the Bay Area" first thing on Tuesday. A Salesforce.com U.S. spokesman reached on Thursday declined to comment on the identity of the Internet company. The Wall Street Journal reported on May 21 that Google and Salesforce.com wereÂ holding talksÂ over a possible alliance that could see the two companies bundle Web-based applications. Both vendors declined to comment on the report. Google and Salesforce.com have each been rapidly expanding the online services they offer. Google has dramatically widened its scope from being a leading Internet search engine to encompass an ever-increasing range of other online services including desktop applications. Eight-year-old Salesforce.com has its roots as a hosted provider of CRM (customer relationship management), but has its sights set on becoming a platforms vendor using its AppExchange Web site, which it is in the process of fully commercializing as an online software marketplace. "We're a catalyst for change," Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com CEO, told financial analysts earlier this month. "Google, Amazon.com, eBay, and Yahoo inspire us. We want to duplicate what they do in the consumer world." He added that to his mind Salesforce.com was effectively "building an on-demand operating system." Benioff positioned Salesforce.com as still very much focused on growth. "We're just trying to get to a billion dollars in on-demand [software] before anyone else does," he said. "We're willing to do anything." At the same time, Microsoft, a prime competitor of Google in the search and Internet advertising arenas, is marshalling its own set of Windows Live online services, including a hosted version of its Dynamics CRM software. The Journal report suggested that Google and Salesforce.comÂ need to buddy up to take on MicrosoftÂ and avoid competing with each other. Teaming up could involve integrating Google's Apps suite with Salesforce.com's hosted CRM. The two companies have previously worked together around Google's Search Appliance and AdWords. There's also the possibility that the relationship might become much closer with Google potentially looking to acquire Salesforce.com at some point. Â ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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General purpose system utility Cocktail has been update adding support for Mac OS X 10.5.2, among other changes.
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Come ampiamente annunciato, Mozilla Foundation, dopo Firefox, ha rilasciato la versione 1.0 di Thunderbird, client di posta elettronica che dovrebbe costituire una valida alternativa ad Oulook. Le premesse
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Over on our sister site, AjaxDeveloper.org today, there's a note about the latest release of Joshua Eichorn's HTML_AJAX PEAR package - version 0.3.1.    HTML_AJAX 0.3.1 is out, lots of good bug fixes, and iframe fallback support for Opera and IE with activeX turned off.  More details are available on the release notes on the wiki.  Feature wise were getting close to beta release, its mainly getting a browser compatability test suite added in and doing some basic API review. If you have experience supporting an API without breaking bc, it would be great to get your feedback on HTML_AJAX.    In the release notes, there's mention of several bugs with Internet Explorer implementations and some yet unsolved problems (IE memory leaks and table support in Konqueror). Check out the rest of the notes for more of the bugs and issues they've taken care of...
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New builds of Mac OS X version 10.4 have been seeded to a select group of developers, according to a report by AppleInsider. The new operating system, code-named "Tiger," is currently being tested by Apple's elite and the development builds feature Jabber support in iChat, as well as extended RSS support in Safari 2.0. Many changes in development release have appeared since Tiger's debut at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in June.
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(InfoWorld) - Security researchers have jumped on Apple's beta version of the Safari browser, digging up as many as 18 bugs in the software, just one day after its release. Researchers Aviv Raff , David Maynor, and Thor Larholm all reported flaws in the browser shortly after it was made available on Monday. Maynor alone said he'd discovered six bugs, including two that could be used to run unauthorized software on a victim's PC. Safari 3.0 is getting more attention because, for the first time, Apple has made a Windows version of the software available. Now the software can be downloaded by a much larger group of testers. Another researcher, Tom Ferris, said his vulnerability testing "fuzzer" software turned up 10 flaws in the browser in just five minutes. He had harsh words for Apple's security team. "That's horrible, and just goes to show that they took no initiative to fuzz their own software," he said Tuesday. Apple itself had little to say about all of the bug-finding. "We take security very seriously, and we're investigating these reports," an Apple spokesman told IDG News Service before declining to comment further. Although Safari 3.0 is beta code and expected to include bugs, Ferris said that Apple's team should have tested it more carefully before making it available to such a large group of testers. "In order to have a useful beta test of a Web browser, people need to use it in the real world, which is ultimately exposing them to malware," he said. Ferris and other researchers were also eager to deflate Apple's claim that "Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one," a statement that Raff called "pathetic." The Safari vulnerabilities were widely reported Tuesday on blogs and technology news, but according to Matthew Baker, too much was made of the issue. "Reporting as news that a beta program has bugs ... seems like reporting that there's rain in Seattle," he said. "The beta version is being held to the standard that a Gold Master copy should," said Baker, a Mac user who works as a customer service representative with First Utah Bank in Salt Lake City Utah. "It just seems to me that some people ... feel some sort of pleasure in reporting issues with Apple's software."
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Responding to security concerns, Apple has updated Safari for Windows; beta 3.0.1 is available now.
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In the first 48 hours of availability, customers downloaded more than 1 million copies of the Safari for Windows public beta. Safari 3, the worldâs fastest and easiest-to use web browser, supports all modern Internet standards including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and Java. Itâs available as a free download at www.apple.com/safari/.
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Apple launches a version of its web browser Safari for Windows machines.
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There's one problem with Safari for Windows -- Safari sucks. Many Mac users wonât even run it on the Mac.
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Apple Inc. launched a version of its Safari Web browser for Windows-based PCs on Monday, adding yet another tentacle to its multi-pronged encroachment of Microsoft Corp.'s turf.