Yes I know, our catalogue doesn’t work with Safari. When I began developing the ‘box (6 years ago now .. yikes that’s hard to believe) Safari was just awful. Hard to debug, poor support for the latest in web tech. So I blocked it out, blocked my ears. Now of course, Safari rocks. Firefox rocks, Chrome rocks, and IE9 will finally .. hopefully make IE rock for the first time. So .. I’ve got my eye on it, and hope to get Safari and Chrome up and running in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, with a developer trick, you can get us up and running with Safari now.

Go to your preferences area click ‘Show Develop in menu bar’ in the advanced tab to make the developer’s menu appear. Select Develop -> User Agent -> Firefox 3.6.3 (Mac or Windows) to spoof the User Agent and make APPLEBOX think it’s Firefox. Boom! Click browse DVDs and you’re away. There are a few minor layout issues I’ve got to deal with .. but if Safari is your thing, go for it.

Safari 5 is absolutely smokin’ but Firefox is still my favourite .. it might be lagging Safari a bit in raw performance at the moment .. but Firefox 4 is due at the end of the year and all is lookin’ good.