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Title: Apple Safari 3 for Windows
Post by: Lazybones on June 11, 2007, 06:02:26 PM
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/safari-3-for-windows/

A new browser has just landed in windows land.
Title: Re: Apple Safari 3 for Windows
Post by: Mr. Analog on June 11, 2007, 08:05:35 PM
It's all lost and confused and scared that everything cool it can do is a plug in for Firefox (though with less memory leakage, I would hope) ;)

Still, competition is a good thing!
Title: Re: Apple Safari 3 for Windows
Post by: Lazybones on June 11, 2007, 09:57:15 PM
Apple is pushing AJAX in Safari as the dev platform for 3rd parties on the iPhone. I think this has something to do with it.

Gave it a go and got quickly annoyed by the mouse controls and shortcuts.
Title: Re: Apple Safari 3 for Windows
Post by: Mr. Analog on June 12, 2007, 07:21:23 AM
Quote from: Lazybones on June 11, 2007, 09:57:15 PM
Apple is pushing AJAX in Safari as the dev platform for 3rd parties on the iPhone.

I read about that too and all I gotta say is; GIVE US NATIVE SUPPORT APPLE!
Title: Re: Apple Safari 3 for Windows
Post by: Darren Dirt on June 12, 2007, 09:29:27 AM
Smokin' fast. That's all I can say (the Apple version, anyway) -- Mozilla's flexibility is great but with all those extensions you need added on, it's a bit "heavier" on the "scale" for a lot of people.

I like how the news articles talk about how difficult it will be for Safari to get its foot in the Windoze Uzerz door -- mentioning the 80% market share that IE has and the 15-ish% that Firefox has. But absolutely NO mention of how IE had like 95% for so many years (due to the default installation on the OS, natch) and how the huge loss in a handful of years is a result of users getting sick of security holes, patches, crashes, and of course the notorious Microsoft Making Default Choices For You Even When Before The Upgrade You Chose The Opposite ::)

GL Apple and Mozilla -- may the consuming public be the beneficiary of your feature-clashes ;)
Title: Re: Apple Safari 3 for Windows
Post by: Mr. Analog on June 12, 2007, 09:49:53 AM
I'd be careful with it, some major holes in it already.

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/0120230

Grain of salt of course...