In article <1185234360.750662@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc Warren Oates <warren.oates@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> > In article <f82id7$3mm$02$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > d d <dd_no_spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> I want to have Safari 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 all installed on the same
(Intel)
> >> Mac Mini. Does anyone else successfully have such a configuration?
> >
> > You could install them under 3 different users, and use fast switching
> > to move back and forth. Kludge, for sure, but it would probably work.
>
> No, it would not work.
>
> You don't install Safari for a user, you install it on a system.
> Installing from three different users will make no difference at all.
>
> Safari is just a very thin shell around WebKit.framework which lives in
> /System unless you're doing some non-obvious tricks. Any approach which
> doesn't acknowledge this is bound to fail. There's a lot more than just
> the .app at work.
Isn't there an automatic search list for frameworks, that looks in
~/Library/Frameworks before /System/Frameworks? So maybe you could put
the old WebKit.framework in one user's ~/Library.
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