Comments on: Apple’s Safari Browser for Windows http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2007/06/11/apples-safari-browser-for-windows/ Geoff Gaudreault's Flash weblog and source files archive. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Gert http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2007/06/11/apples-safari-browser-for-windows/#comment-2297 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:10:42 +0000 http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2007/06/11/apples-safari-browser-for-windows/#comment-2297 I tested it on Vista: It loads fast, for sure. But there are some bad poins also: - fonts look blurry - backspace does not work to go back to a previous page - lots of pages have rendereing errors, probably because they are not tested on Safari, as it still has a very small penetration. Even google pages have severe errors! (http://www.google.com/ig?hl=be) - I already crashed 2 times after some days of working I hope these are fixed with the next release. I stick with Internet Explorer & Firefox fot the time being: I like firefox over IE, but in real live I always use IE because that's the only player that shows almost all sites as they where intended to look, just because Win/IE has the most user base. I tested it on Vista:

It loads fast, for sure.

But there are some bad poins also:
- fonts look blurry
- backspace does not work to go back to a previous page
- lots of pages have rendereing errors, probably because they are not tested on Safari, as it still has a very small penetration. Even google pages have severe errors! (http://www.google.com/ig?hl=be)
- I already crashed 2 times after some days of working

I hope these are fixed with the next release.
I stick with Internet Explorer & Firefox fot the time being: I like firefox over IE, but in real live I always use IE because that’s the only player that shows almost all sites as they where intended to look, just because Win/IE has the most user base.

]]> by: Interesting… Windows Users Don’t Like Their Apps to Look Nice. | Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2007/06/11/apples-safari-browser-for-windows/#comment-2292 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:56:27 +0000 http://www.neurofuzzy.net/2007/06/11/apples-safari-browser-for-windows/#comment-2292 [...] I was pretty much taken off guard by Apple’s release of Safari for Windows. Still not quite sure what their real motives are… Webkit everywhere, I suppose. By boosting Safari’s market share, developers will start to write Javascript that’s a bit more compatible with the iPhone. But what has really surprised me is that some Windows users are actually complaining that it looks nice. It seems as though they like aliased text. I don’t get it. I can kind of understand the reluctant developer standpoint, but even still, anything that erodes the IE dominance is a good thing IMHO. Chastising a developer because they respect design and aesthetic doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. [...] […] I was pretty much taken off guard by Apple’s release of Safari for Windows. Still not quite sure what their real motives are… Webkit everywhere, I suppose. By boosting Safari’s market share, developers will start to write Javascript that’s a bit more compatible with the iPhone. But what has really surprised me is that some Windows users are actually complaining that it looks nice. It seems as though they like aliased text. I don’t get it. I can kind of understand the reluctant developer standpoint, but even still, anything that erodes the IE dominance is a good thing IMHO. Chastising a developer because they respect design and aesthetic doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. […]

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