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Re: Missing letters
country flaguser name
United States		 2007-10-03 17:45:43 
Can I add Safari 3.0.3 and the letters m, then n to the mix.
I'm
switching to Camino while this blows over, but will be back
on Safari
later, as I prefer it. My best guess, since this seems to be
limited
to gmail and seems so specific, is a rogue programmer at
google with a
grudge, doing a browser detect and being quite annoying to
Safari 3
beta users.

If this is the case, I wish google the best of luck finding
the code
and repairing the damage done. If this is the work of some
malicious
programmer, I hope they are brought to task. I have used
gmail for job
applications in the past and would hate to have missed out
on a good
job because some idiot wants to make a bit of noise.

- Stef.

On Aug 6, 1:32 am, Maureen Evans <mo.ev...gmail.com> wrote:
> I am another Safari 3.0.2 user whose letter R's
disappeared after I
> sent a message using gmail, which appeared normal on
send. Just
> thought I'd pipe in.
>
> ~*~ M.
>
> On Jul 18, 10:43 am, dalewisely <dalewis...gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was thinking that maybe we have developed an
international shortage
> > of commonlettersin certain fonts, due to overuse. 
It's hard to
> > imagine that there are enough "e"s in
New Times Roman to go around.
>
> > On Jun 22, 3:27 pm, Burt <bfinkelst...gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > This is bizarre.  Last week several emails
that I sent out had EVERY
> > > singleletter"T" removed from every
part if the email.  Today, its
> > > theletter"O"
>
> > > Has anyone seen this before?  I know I'm
typing correctly and the
> > >lettersare there when I hit the send button. 
YOu can reply to me
> > > directly or to the group.
>
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > Burt


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Re: Missing letters
user name
 2007-10-03 18:17:17 

  


  

    On 10/3/07, Stefan Smith < stefan.smithgmail.com">stefan.smithgmail.com> wrote:

Can I add Safari 3.0.3 and the letters m, then n to the mix. I'm
switching to Camino while this blows over, but will be back on Safari
later, as I prefer it. My best guess, since this seems to be limited
to gmail and seems so specific, is a rogue programmer at google with a

grudge, doing a browser detect and being quite annoying to Safari 3
beta users.

Uh, no. I would bet my life savings that isn't the case. This is likely just a case of:
  1. Gmail does not fully support Safari (IE and Firefox-based browsers are the only fully supported ones)

  2. Safari 3.0.3 is in beta, which by definition means it probably still has a few problems. Gmail is extraordinary complex and could easily be finding a bug that few other sites would.
  3. If it was a browser detect that intentionally discriminated against Safari, anyone in the world (not just Google) could see the code causing it (as it would have to be client-side Javascript). Someone would have a raised a fit by now, there are a lot of people out there who look at code like that for fun.

No need to look for a conspiracy theory.

Ryan


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