June 11th, 2007
Apple announces Safari for Windows
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
It was one of those ‘one more thing’ moments at WWDC today, but it was still a big one … at least for those of us who use Windows. Apple announced that version 3 of Safari (prior to now a Mac only browser), currently in beta, will support Windows XP and Vista.
Apple has launched a version of its web browser Safari for Windows, competing head to head with Microsoft’s Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox.
Chief executive Steve Jobs said Apple “dream big” (sic) and wanted to expand the 4.9% market share Safari enjoys. Source: BBC News
We Say: It’s hard enough to get corporate IT to support Firefox, much less Safari. Still, you can bet I’ll be downloading this once I click the “Publish” button. 
Oh, and if you’re interested, you can download it yourself here.
John says:
It can be zippity in some pages, but in the age of broadband, who cares?
*Ugly theme/buttons
*Ugly window buttons (minimize/maximize/restore/close)
*Clicking taskbar does not minimize it
*”You haven’t entered anything in Google box” Geez, maybe I just wanted to intuitively go to Google.com
*”great” Apple UI everywhere, for example, windows only resizable via bottom right.
*Click on a .wmv, it opens in WMP. In IE7 or FF, they give choice to download or open, and FF even lets me pref to automatically download
*Lack of favicons in bookmarks bar
*RSS button unstandard. IE and FF have come to truce with this
*no autoscroll
*middle click doesn’t close tabs, open tabs from bookmarks bar
*No “recently closed tabs”
*no status bar by default
*no inline spell check
*no double click tab bar to get new tab
*crashed twice already, FF crashes maybe once a week
*no adblocking
*no “google/yahoo search suggest”
*backspace doesn’t go back
*edit bookmarks name/address separately, huh?
June 11th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
paul says:
I’m with John on this one. It didn’t have any trouble installing on my win 2k prof. laptop. I don’t know if its because its an unsupported OS, or if its beta, but to add to John’s list, my virtual scroll doesn’t work, and that’s not going to fly for me. It doesn’t look terrible, and its very smart of apple to try to expand its market, but in the end, it’s going to be Firefox all the way for me.
June 11th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Michael Santo says:
Yes, I promised readers I would download … but I was not that impressed. Oh well … back to Firefox.
June 11th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Charles says:
Crave did a nice job of breaking down why the purpose of the release is probably not for your Web browsing benefit.
The iPhone runs third-party apps as Web applications and not native on the device. By releasing Safari onto the PC, it increases the number of potential developers significantly.
Safari on PC allows someone to develop and test their iPhone application without an SDK.
That Jobs… he’s a crafty one…
June 11th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
ed3 says:
Does Safari bypass Vista’s parental controls?
June 12th, 2007 at 10:25 am
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July 4th, 2008 at 11:57 pm