Urgent:: Need a copy of Safari 4
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From: David on 22 Jun 2010 22:39 In article <4c20cebd$0$1650$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Safari 5 is incompatible with a goverment web site. I cannot make an > important submission which is now late. It worked prior to the recent > upgrades on the Mac. Safari is now at 5.0 > > Can anyone point me to where I could find a copy of Safary 4.something > that I coudl download and run this once ? (intel mac). Your OS install disc will have it David
From: John Albert on 22 Jun 2010 23:25 From my archives (not sure where to attribute): "I used a modified script from Michel Fortin�s Multi-Safari project (which unfortunately stops at version 3), along with the older integrated frameworks and app (which I extracted from Apple�s 4.0.5 update with pacifist). You can grab this re-packaged Safari 4.0.5 here: http://appleguru.org/Safari4.0.5SnowLeopard.zip Just unzip it and drag it to wherever you want; it coexists with Safari 5 just fine! If anyone needs this for Leopard, let me know and I�ll throw it together for you. UPDATE: Multi-Safari has been updated with versions for both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Head on over to Michel�s site and grab them here! Source for older versions of Safari here: http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/" - John
From: JF Mezei on 23 Jun 2010 00:17 Wes Groleau wrote: > �The user agent header�if it says Mac and doesn�t say Safari, then > it shouldn�t work.� > > (I have, no joke, fixed bugs by removing code for which the only > purpose I could imagine was to prevent something not mentioned > in the requirements). The way I see it, the government gave a contract for this e-file system to some large consulting firm. Large consulting firm promises something much more evolved than simple html forms, so they develop some small japa apps that are called between html forms to check the status of your session, browser etc. They develop this and test it only on a couple of platform, and add code to the java to restrict to only those 2-3 verified system/browser combos. System is delivered, and contract paid. Years later, the govt isn't able to update the list of supported broswer because that is embedded into the java code and the govt doesn't have the source code. And they aren't about to spend another 40 million to hire this consulting form to update the system... What bugs me is that even if you use Firefox and pretens yo are IE6 on Windows XP, the java will jam/freeze up. So you are able to bypass the silly browser checks, but the idiots who wrote the code must have use very unstandard java stuff to cause to to fail so miserably.
From: JF Mezei on 23 Jun 2010 00:27 David Empson wrote: > > Someone has created a rebundled copy of Safari 4.x with the matching > WebKit as a framework inside the application, which allows it to be > installed alongside Safari 5. > > http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/ Many thanks. Am downloading it and will give it a test drive. Stupid to need a specific version of a browser to access a bad web site. (I don't blame Apple for this, it si purely the e-file folks who have a terrible design at the government.
From: Walter Bushell on 23 Jun 2010 08:38
In article <4c218acf$0$32044$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > System is delivered, and contract paid. Years later, the govt isn't able > to update the list of supported broswer because that is embedded into > the java code and the govt doesn't have the source code. And they > aren't about to spend another 40 million to hire this consulting form to > update the system... And the administration has changed so the old company is right out. -- All BP's money, and all the President's men, Cannot put the Gulf of Mexico together again. |