soaked and soaped

Apple already announced that MobileMe is not compatible with IE6.
When I dug into MobileMe’s source of the login page, I found this – for me a bit surprising – chunk of text:

Internet Explorer 7 is not fully supported

Internet Explorer 7 has known compatibility issues with modern web standards which affect Web 2.0 applications such as MobileMe.

You can use Internet Explorer 7, but you will not have access to all MobileMe features and will experience slower performance.

For the best MobileMe experience, please use Firefox 3 or Safari 3

Either Apple had time problems making things also work perfectly for IE7 or they really want to get users switching over
to a real browser.

Internet Explorer 7 and MobileMe Screenshot

After my girlfriend upgraded to Safari 3.1 via Apple’s Software Update utility, none of the apps which use the WebKit Framework worked and kept crashing (Safari, iChat, Skype, etc.).
The really bad thing was that also the Software Update and the Application Installer itself didn’t start up after the update. So no chance to reinstall the update with a GUI.

For the case you ran into the same troubles, here is how we fixed it:

• Download the Safari update from http://apple.com/safari (hopefully you have a non Webkit Browser installed like Camino or Firefox, or get the update somehow else)
• Open the downloaded .dmg file
• Put the .pkg-file which is contained in the .dmg-file somewhere where you can find it later (e.g your home directory)
• Start up the Terminal application
• Enter this command sudo installer -pkg <path-to-pkg-file> -target LocalSystem (replace <path-to-pkg-file> with the actual path to .pkg-file)
• It will ask for your password. Type it in and press enter
• Restart your computer when asked to do so