When Internet search engine giant Google launched its free 1GB email service, Gmail on April 1, 2004, they did so without support for Apple Computer Inc."s Safari Web browser. The browser requirement page on the company"s Web site lists several compatible browsers for the beta of Gmail, but Safari is still not among them. All of that will change before Gmail is available to the public, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Brin noted that he was "embarrassed" that Gmail"s beta doesn"t support Safari, but said that they will add Safari support before its public release. "We"re going to make it work with Safari and that"s one of the high priority things," Brin told MacCentral. "I"ve heard that you can sort of get it to work if you"re desperate. I want to fix that, and I want to make it work really well."