Future Support of Web Browsers

Greetings,
  I have read the NW 7 product availability matrix, and note #598860 as well. I have also searched this forum using various terms, such as "Firefox", "Safari", "Design2003", "browser", etc.... After this, I am still wondering what SAP's longer term strategy for browser support is. Is there really no intention to officially support Firefox 2 and beyond (Gecko engine) and Safari 2 and beyond (WebKit engine) for BSP apps? If so, why?
  Aside from layout engine compatibility issues, it seems that there is also an issue in terms of supported authentication mechanisms. IE is happy to be asked to present client-held X.509 certificates, but Firefox and Safari seem to get a bit more upset about this or some other part of the authentication process. I know that the WAS can be configured not to ask for client certificates, and I have not played with that profile setting yet. But, beyond that, are there any other authentication-related issues that anyone is aware of with these browsers inter-operating with BSP apps or the WAS, in general? And, if so, are there any plans to address them?
  What prompts this question is that we are going to be deploying a BSP application that ships as part of one of the industry-specific modules (IS-HER), and we have no control over which browsers the students are going to be using to connect to it.
Thank you,
  Eric

Note 598860 appears to have been updated. According to the current content, DESIGN2003 will be supported on Firefox >= 2.0. The chance for official Safari support still looks grim.

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