Apple has announced that they are releasing a version of the Safari web browser for Windows. Apple say that Safari for Windows is twice as fast as Internet Explorer (is that saying much?) and that a beta release is available for XP and Vista.
It will be interesting to see if the Windows and Mac versions render the same (unlike MS IE on Windows and Mac). Also interesting is the fact that Safari’s rendering engine is in part based on KHTML the Linux/*nix GUI, which will hopefully help raise the status of Open Source code even more.
Many people (myself included) were not terribly impressed with the layout of Windows Itunes, hopefully Safari will be a more intuitive experience. If we (as web developers) are really lucky, Safari will end up with 25% market share (who knows, perhaps the Iphone will drive that since it comes with Safari.) and the rest is divided between Firefox, IE and Opera. That way it will be impossible for any one browser to drive developers away from W3C standards ever again.
See Apple/Safari for more details.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I’m really enjoying using Safari under Windows. Using it has highlighted an anomaly with one of my pages that I’ll have to fix [dang!]
The only annoyance that I’ve discovered, and it is a minor one, is getting a local HTML file to load from the Explorer right-click menu. I right-click and “Open with” any other browser without problems, but if I do so with Safari I get the home page every time. I can live with this, but I wonder if it is a case of the product not fully supporting the native windows environment?
My wish list would include a Firefox extension “Safari View”, to match “IE View” and “Opera View”. Would be very handy for web page development / UAT.
July 3rd, 2021 at 8:39 pm
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