When Will Google Docs Support Safari?
One thing I really dig with Gmail is that it gives you a handful of options in opening attachments. You can download these to your hard drive, view as HTML or open as a Google Doc. If you received several attachments, you can even download all of these in one go as a zipped archive.
One big gripe of mine, though, is that Google Docs doesn’t work on Safari yet. And Safari is my favorite browser on my Mac.
So even if a document is compatible with Google Docs, like MS Word or Excel files, for instance, I still get the simple view as HTML or download links on Gmail.
On other Mac browsers like Firefox or Camino, I get the full monty.
It’s not just that. I don’t even have the advanced reply/forward dropdown menu on Safari. It’s still the plain ol’ more options link that brings up links to reply, forward, or other options.
On Camino and Firefox:
I know it’s the same functionality-wise. It’s more of eye candy, compared to the Google Docs issue. Still, it’s something I’d rather have standard across all of the browsers I use.
Oh, Google. When will you have better support for Safari?
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You may want to try Webkit, the working copy of Safari, located at webkit.org, which surprisingly fully supports Google Docs. Using Webkit instead of Safari is pretty seamless, it will grab your bookmarks, history, anything, except for it doesn’t support auto form completion.
I think their aim is to promote Firefox, they would of fixed it for safari by now if they wanted you to use it.
It annoys me that I cant use Opera for it as well but I don’t use it as much so not as bothered
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@tanguy:r, will tryt that out.. thanks for the tip.