Finally the Cupertino nerds have released something which might be useful. The MacOSX internet browser Safari, will be released for Windows too. The reason for the release is the electrical item, gadget, gizmo, whatever, no one wants to hear about anymore… the iPhone.
After Apple obliged every iPod owner to use iTunes, the iCanMakeCallsWithThisDamnThing, will bring Safari to the Windows Desktop!
I hope the UI will be more WMP and usable than what Apple has made of iTunes and Cover Flow.
iHope? I am about to discover it, right at the moment. Here we go.
iFranky, now in iSafari modus.
After installation, the first thing I noticed was that damn QuickTime desktop and system tray item. Bummer.
Is it a big surprise the Safari browser immediately leads me to a perfect sales landing page, brought to you from Cupertino by Apple of course!
Sadly no one bothers to ask me if I have another browser installed and eventually would like to import bookmarks? Thank you, del.icio.us!
Why would I even bother, with my Windows OS to check out .mac online tools, internet essentials for your Mac. :|
Platform recognition… anyone? *sigh*
Hmmm. At first view certainly nowhere as fast as Opera, and STANDARD font rendering … … … sucks! You only have to compare both screen captures from Have Laptop Will Travel in Safari (left) and Firefox under Vista (right).
This will be hard to motivate myself to continue checking Safari. And actually, I would love to give the browser a fair chance, even if first reactions, first behavior puts me of, but noticing that I can nowhere check the URL when I hover a link without title attribute (worse even, also when a title attribute is present) is a big NONO!
Even for a beta version.
7 have made me smarter ↓
1 Danalyn // Jun 12, 2007 at 1:59 am// View all comments by Danalyn//
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WTF? First itunes now safari? Fucking malware.
2 Kurt Moore // Jun 14, 2007 at 7:48 am// View all comments by Kurt Moore//
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3 Franky // Jun 14, 2007 at 4:23 pm// View all comments by Franky//
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Hi Kurt, thanks for the tips.
I’ve read Joel’s entry, more even… immediately after this entry I jumped into the options, which usually is the first thing I do :)
But when I wrote it, the keynote was still going on… and also I wanted to experience how ‘Joe Average’ would feel. Not that Joe needs a status bar.
As for font smoothing… sorry, preferences or not, ClearType technology is inferior. Just maximize the fonts with [Ctrl]+[+] (guess that’s [option]+[whatever] on a Mac).
But honestly, I am biased. I am very deep into Windows, alpha tester since more than 5 years already and also, I hate ‘fanboys’.
MacOSX surely is great, just not for me, someone who can practically read the registry. It would take me ages to gather the same knowledge, and probably my boss wouldn’t be itnerested in me anymore either. :|
But then again, for what Windows is to the first time user, it’s awesome too. Just compare downloading a program and the next steps for a first timer on both platforms. :)
4 Kurt Moore // Jun 14, 2007 at 10:52 pm// View all comments by Kurt Moore//
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Did you just call me a fanboy :-P
5 Tomasz Gorski // Jul 1, 2007 at 12:45 pm// View all comments by Tomasz Gorski//
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I’m running windows, and to me the font smoothing is too much. Smaller text becomes almost too chunky to read. On windows it crashes as soon as you try to type in your proxy password and you can’t edit the proxy settings (the button is greyed out in preferences.) It seems to render pretty quickly, but I was testing at work and it seemed to lag on the initial request, like the Microsoft network protocol was stopping it and saying “What are you doing here?†: ) All told, I don’t think I’ll be switching away from firefox. Safari currently lacks the plugins I’ve come to depend on, and I just don’t see anything that really makes it worth switching. Based on the text alone I don’t see myself switching over to Safari as my default browser. I know it’s still in beta but I see myself sticking by firefox. However, I’m very excited to see Apple opening up it’s browser to windows users. One more browser I can test my sites on now.
6 alveo // Jan 22, 2008 at 9:43 am// View all comments by alveo//
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great post and discussion!!!
7 agencja modelek // Apr 9, 2008 at 8:48 am// View all comments by agencja modelek//
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I use Safari on Windows, b`coz when I do a website I want to check how is it appear in others browsers.
Its good the new version wa released.
gretings,
Agencja Modelek