Apple Safari Beta Browser released for Windows

[Mycanid]

The title says it all.

Here is the link to the site:

http://www.apple.com/safari/

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Things really must be different on Planet Cuppertino that they think the world's been waiting for a browser missing most of the functionality of Firefox and IE7 that doesn't render pages accurately a depressingly high amount of time ... but renders them inaccurately faster.

(No, I don't get frustrated with Safari at work. Why do you ask?)

 

[Jeysie]

Hrm. Well, it'll come in handy for website testing, probably, but otherwise I'm more than happy with Opera.

Plus, my stint working at a graphic design shop some years back has throughly killed any latent interest in anything Apple.

Peace & Luv, Liz

 

[stonegod]

The only (cogent) reason I have seen so far on the multi-platform release is that the iPhone will export a WebKit-like programing API, so testing via Safari (which uses WebKit) is one route.

 

[Mycanid]

Hrm. Well, it'll come in handy for website testing, probably, but otherwise I'm more than happy with Opera.

Plus, my stint working at a graphic design shop some years back has throughly killed any latent interest in anything Apple.

Peace & Luv, Liz

Yes ma'am ... you hit the nail on the head. I do website design and it is always useful to check it in a popular browser. But druthers-wise I must admit that I prefer Firefox.

 

[WhatGravitas]

http://www.apple.com/safari/

The "12 Reasons you'll love Safari" gave me a good laugh. I mean...
2. Elegant User Interface
4. Pop-Up Blocking
6. Tabbed Browsing
8. Forms AutoFill
9. Built-In RSS
11. Private Browsing

Erm... what of this is actually new or novel?

 

[Chris Tavares]

Not to mention that folks have found several serious security bugs (including remote code execution) in only the first couple of hours of release.

Even IE was never that bad.

 

[Enforcer]

I'm a huge Mac fan, but I'm sticking with Firefox on both my Windows PC and my iBook for the following reasons:

-Safari doesn't have seamless syncing of bookmarks (I use the Google Browser Sync extension on my Windows machine at work and my Mac at home, and it's awesome)

-Safari won't let me "middle-click" on a folder of bookmarks and open them all (like my folder of EN World forums that I like to visit). Instead I have to drill down into the folder and choose "Open All in Tabs." Not a huge deal at first glance, but it gets really annoying to have to do the extra step each time.

-Safari doesn't have lots of other extensions that I love: Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Check4Change, and Download Statusbar. Sorry, but these really improve the browser experience for me.

Maybe the release version will support this kind of thing, but who knows? Until then, Firefox for me.

 

[Ilium]

Using Safari on windows to post this.

I grabbed the beta, and like most of those above, I feel a resounding "meh." It seems fine, but no better than Firefox, and I also use the middle-click tricks, so I'm not wowed yet.

 

[Michael Morris]

Before porting it to PC Apple might want to fix the thing on the Mac

Safari's CSS compliance is stronger than any browser except Opera 9.x, but it's Javascript DOM implementation is about on par with Netscape 5 (which is to say, it isn't very good). Javascript tends to break, and break often, on Safari.

More importantly to those who spend a lot of time here, I'm not adding Safari to the list of supported browsers anytime soon. The current list is

IE 7
Opera 9
Firefox 2

Any other browser is hit or miss. Some of the skinning techniques I'm going to be using will NOT look good in IE 6 -- upgrade now.