Wake Up Apple - Safari not supported by FAFSA gov website for student Aid

Wow, Apple, you claimto be the best choice for students, but Safari is not supported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid website:
See for yourself. Text from the website:
Browser Requirements
Supported Browsers
We have detected that you are using a non-certified browser.
The browsers listed below have been certified for use with FAFSA on the Web. If you choose to use a browser other than the ones listed here, the site's pages may not display properly, and you may encounter problems while entering your application that Customer Service may not be able to resolve. On a quarterly basis, the Department of Education will evaluate new browser versions and certify them for use with FAFSA on the Web.
Netscape browsers:
Netscape Navigator 6.2 (Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Netscape Navigator 6.2.1 (Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Netscape Navigator 6.2.2 (Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Netscape Navigator 6.2.3 (Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP Home and Professional; and Macintosh Operating System 9)
Netscape Navigator 7.01 (Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Netscape Navigator 7.02 (Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Netscape Navigator 7.1 (Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional; Macintosh Operating System 10.2)
Netscape Navigator 8.0.2 (Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Netscape Navigator 8.0.4 (Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Netscape Navigator 8.1 (Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Microsoft browsers:
5.00.2014.0216 - Internet Explorer 5.0 (Windows 95/98 and Windows NT)
5.00.2314.1003 - Internet Explorer 5.0 (Office 2000)
5.00.2614.3500 - Internet Explorer 5.0 (Windows 98 Second Edition)
5.00.2919.6307 - Internet Explorer 5.01 and 5.01 with Service Pack 1 (Windows 95/98, Windows NT and Windows 2000)
5.00.2920.0000 - Internet Explorer 5.01 (Windows 2000, build 5.00.2195)
5.00.3103.1000 - Internet Explorer 5.01 with Service Pack 1 (Windows 2000)
5.00.3105.0106 - Internet Explorer 5.01 with Service Pack 1 (Windows 95/98 and Windows NT)
5.00.3314.2101 - Internet Explorer 5.01 with Service Pack 2 (Windows 95/98 and Windows NT)
5.00.3315.1000 - Internet Explorer 5.01 with Service Pack 2 (Windows 2000)
5.50.4134.0600 - Internet Explorer 5.5 (Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows ME)
5.50.4522.1800 - Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 1 (Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows ME)
5.50.4807.2300 - Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 2 (Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows ME)
6.0.2600.0000 - Internet Explorer 6.0 (Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
6.0.2800.1106 - Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 1 (Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
6.0.2900.2180 - Internet Explorer 6.0 with Service Pack 2 (Windows XP Home and Professional)
All versions of Internet Explorer 5 or 6 customized with the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) include one of the following strings after the version number when you click "About" on the Help menu:
IC = Internet Content Provider
IS = Internet Service Provider
CO = Corporate Administrator
America Online default browsers:
AOL 5.0 (Windows 95/98 and Windows NT)
AOL 6.0 (Windows 95/98, Windows 2000 and Windows ME)
AOL 7.0 (Windows 95/98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
AOL 8.0 (Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
AOL 9.0 (Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
AOL Explorer 1.2 (Windows 2000, and Windows XP Home and Professional)
Mozilla Firefox browsers:
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 (Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP Home and Professional; and Macintosh Operating System 10.4)
Any thoughts Apple?
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Hola,
Try changing the user agent string to be one of the browsers they recommend (search for 'debug menu' on this forum if you're not sure how to activate it). If it works, then they are using some numbskull validation checks. If it doesn't work, they probably doing something non-standard.
Jusging by the validation check it looks pretty badly done.
They created this browser. I remember when you could send reports to Apple for incompatabile web sites. I think they still need that now.
You still can. They just removed the debug button from the default toolbar selection. Safari menu -> Report bugs to Apple...
It takes two to tango in this game really. Websites need to do their part to write standards compliant pages, and Safari needs to be more tolerant of said non-standard pages.

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