“Safari on Windows looks pretty much like Safari on the Mac, save for the shape and positioning of the close, minimize and zoom buttons. Other than that, it’s nearly identical. The feature sets are the same, as well, from bookmark organization to the built-in RSS reader. Even the text renders the same, though there’s debate over whether that’s good or bad. And as you’d expect, the menus — which show up in the menu bar on Macs — are in their proper Windows location at the top of the Safari browser window,” Mike DeAgonia reports for Computerworld.
“I downloaded and installed Safari on both Windows XP and Vista, using Parallels’ Desktop for Mac on an Intel-based MacBook and a Mac mini,” DeAgonia reports.
“Various reviews have confirmed one consistent fact: Safari is fast. Very fast. Apple says this browser renders HTML twice as fast as Internet Explorer 7 and 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. I didn’t benchmark it, but I can say it is indeed faster than either one. Javascript also shows obvious speed increases,” DeAgonia reports.
“Safari represents another move by Apple to get its highly-touted software in front of people who may never have heard of Safari, much less tried out Apple’s other apps or hardware. Woo them with a few well-crafted programs such as Safari or iTunes, and — Jobs no doubt hopes — you can win them to the OS itself,” DeAgonia reports. “And when Apple puts that same well-crafted app — Safari — on what may be the hottest must-have device of the year, the iPhone, it reinforces the big-picture message: Apple suddenly seems to be everywhere.”
Much more in the full article here.
Too bad I and many others can’t use it because of the “no text” problem. I would love to install it at work since I am all Mac at home.
Working fine for me. At work on my (cough cough) pc and home on my precioussss Macssses
More money for Apple through the search properties that are built in. Smart move for Apple. The fact that they can fix bugs over night shows the dedication that M$ doesn’t have or care about. Working hard gets you places, Apple and it’s people are showing that. Maybe Windows user will get more of a taste with the new Browser…
I’ve has only so-so luck with it at work, but I try to break things on this shitty PC, so maybe I shouldn’t count!!!
Pi
Apple will soon add some cool stuffs that work great with iPhone, that way people a forced to download Safari and probably set it as their default browser later.
Imagine a button on Safari to create widgets for the iPhone. Now that will be HOT! That alone will skyrocket the download rate of Safari.
YES A BUTTON ON SAFARI TO CREATE IPHONE WIDGETS WILL BE A KILLER!
I put Safari 3.0 on my Macbook and it crashed twice within the first half hour (2 different websites). I was very glad they included the uninstall app to put my v2 back in place.
What is the ‘no text’ problem?
I tried posting the prev. comment from Safari 3.0.1 on windows xp.
But, it failed.
I also see that i was not able to copy / Paste the text from a textbox like the comments box at the bottom of this page
Button to create iphone widget. That will be hot.
Why am i posting this?
A lot of times, i see that MDN is too late in brining the news. I see them in Macrumours or Digg.com/apple before i see them here.
May be MDN needs additional people to publish the story.
I wished i had used Safari to type this.. better spell checker.. how do i turn on this in Firefox? is that through google toolbar. I do have it turned. It is probably only doing spellcheck. I need something to check the grammar too..
I tested Safari in for the CSS rendering. I had html page with lot of nested tables with CSS styles
Here are the results.
Average time for the page to load
IE 780 ms
Firefox 710 ms
Safari 070ms
Safari was 10 times faster. Amazing.
Safari and Long running scripts.
Before Safari 3.0.1, i had some stability issues with Safari. Sometimes it goes 100% CPU load.. Something to do with JavaScripts gone wrong.. I do not remember the site name.. i think it is something like ESPN.com…
But with 3.0.1, i see that Safari is asking me a questions” There is a slow running script on this page!. Do you want to stop it?” This behavior is very similar to Firefox.It is good.
i want my adblock, on both Windows and OSX versions.
I like the activity feature in Safari. I can see what is going on different tabs. different windows. I can see all the download or script activity. I also have an option to stop it. This is really cool.
Another great feature that i like in Safari is “Private Browsing”.
This is a neat feature. ( Someone dubbed this yesterday as “Safari on P0rn mode).
But this is a very cool and useful feature.
I have this ‘Bonjour’ in my Bookmark windows. Do anyone know what it is…
“Apple suddenly seems to be everywhere.”
Yeah, I saw Steve hiding behind aisle 2 in the grocery store last night, and I really believe that guy at the gas station today asking for change was Phil Schiller in disguise.
I like it on PC. I have one work pc besides my iMac and Macbook and I keep reaching in the wrong corner for the close button. Same thing happens to me in iTunes.
I use it at home to with no issues, but…I just need to say this….
For 2 years I have been doing web pages in frontpage. Today I ordered DW for my Mac Mini at home and my MacBook. Today chains around my wrists fell off and my loud… fairly new high end pc turned off for one of the last times.
I feel so free, so FREE!!!!
WTF am I supposed to do with this 9 month old PC workhorse?
@macuser:
“I have this ‘Bonjour’ in my Bookmark windows. Do anyone know what it is…”
It’s a “service discovery protocol” in Wikipedia’s words:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)
it’s open-source and likely to become something of a standard way of doing certain things:
“Since Apple introduced Bonjour technology in 2002, every major printer manufacturer has adopted the technology so you can add and remove such machines from networks without configuration.”
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/
If you don’t want to make any services available on a home network, then you don’t need it. You could disable it if you don’t need it, but it’s not really a security risk. As Wiki says:
“In fact, Bonjour does not provide any extra access to services, even on the same local area network (LAN); it merely announces (“advertises”) their existence. For example, a user can browse a list of nearby computers which share files—Bonjour on these computers has told the user that the service is available—but he or she must still provide a password to access any protected files on these machines. Additionally, Bonjour works only in a close range; by default, its messages only reach users of the same subnet.”
And to think it all started because Microsoft ignored Internet Explorer for the Mac as soon as they’ed killed off Netscape.
“What goes around, comes around,” huh Billy Boy?
Has anyone suggested that the number of Windows downloads of Safari could be a good representation of people who plan on or are thinking about buying a Mac in the future?
Nothing would make me happier than to watch Safari eat away at IE’s market share.
Wonder how Ballmer is handling this?
You know what to do right MDN?
*DUCK*
@Stefano Jobso
Thanks for your detailed explanation of Bonjour. This is cool!!
“WTF am I supposed to do with this 9 month old PC workhorse?”
Put her down, frisby. Put her down.