Google cares about your Mac

By Steven Rosenberg on October 25, 2006 11:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Google even has an Official Mac Blog with which to woo you. Best thing so far is the Blogs We Read roll on the right, which has links to all the biggies (including Infinite Loop, MacSlash, Mac Minute and more).

On the blog (which only has four posts at this point), Google is touting it's Mac-ness:

-- A handy set of Dashboard widgets for checking Gmail, posting to your blog, and checking your search history

-- Two ways to upload photos from your Mac to Picasa Web Albums

-- A cool Google Notifier that alerts you to new Gmail messages and (a Mac-only feature) upcoming Google Calendar events

But they don't care enough to make Writely (now Google Docs and Spreadsheets) work with Safari. I don't know if the explanation is still on the site, but in the days when it was still called Writely, there was a reason for the lack of Safari support, something about the lack of ability to write HTML on the fly in the browser. And was I hallucinating about Writely supporting Netscape 4.8? Now it emphatically doesn't, but at one time I thought it did. And yes, I do run Netscape 4.78 on This Old Mac, and I do, after a fashion, "write," and thus have an interest in this matter.

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