Safari on Windows
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It’ll crash if you look at it wrong, but at least we’ll soon have Safari on Windows (no thanks to Apple). Get Swift if you’d like to take a look, but don’t hold your breath for an amazing experience. It’s going to take a year or so before Swift gets stable enough to use as an alternative to your already-alternative browser. Why we still have to deal with Safari at this point is beyond me. It’s tough enough dealing with the inconsistences between Opera, IE7, and FireFox! I only know three people who use Safari in OS X by default, and they live in a mental institution. If you use Safari, too - please tell your sanitarium buddies I said “Hello.”
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Sparky
August 13th, 2006
at 8:50pm
Haha - so true. No idea why anyone in their right mind would port Safari to Windows. Safari sucks. Use Camino or Firefox on the mac, and Firefox or IE7 (if you can stand the bugs) on Windows.
pat smith
August 14th, 2006
at 12:57am
Good thing I read the whole paragraph before commenting. Yeah, I tried for about 5 minutes to use Safari on my Mac. First site: check my Gmail. Second site: download Firefox.
Why the hell can’t I see the Chat/Contacts in Gmail on Safari?
Who decided they needed Safari on a PC? The PC experience isn’t painful enough already, so let’s add Safari. Too bad that kind of thinking isn’t lethal, or we’d have another nominee for the Darwin Awards.
Chad Allen
August 14th, 2006
at 9:18am
I’ve been using Safari as my default browser for months now, and have very few problems with the way it renders web pages (for meat least, maybe I’m lucky). Although it’s not as fast as Camino/Firefox on OS X, I use it for several reasons:
-It’s pretty. Fonts and buttons look amazing. As an OSX user, I’m spoiled when it comes to GUI
-It’s native. Sure, Firefox for cocoa is coming soon, and Camino is an option, but they still don’t feel as polished as Safari
-It passes the Acid2 test
I’ll admit, the bookmark management is horrid, but seriously, Safari is not as bad as you guys make it seem. Webkit as advanced quite a bit since Safari was first introduced.
Bob
August 14th, 2006
at 9:19am
First, this *was* ported with the help of Apple. They provide developers to the WebKit open-source project which ported the engine to Windows. Second, the whole point of having another open-source is to improve. So why knock a Safari-based browser before it has time to grow? KHTML/WebKit is an excellent base which could go very far if given the chance.
Derek K. Miller
August 14th, 2006
at 1:02pm
I switched back to Safari from Camino a few months ago, and still prefer it. So there. I have to go take my meds now.
Gilles
August 16th, 2006
at 5:02pm
“I only know three people who use Safari in OS X by default, and they live in a mental institution.”
You sound like John C. Dvorak. I just erased you site from my (Safari) bookmarks.
angry developer
August 20th, 2006
at 1:55pm
yeah why you people would use safari - forget it! this way we poor developers would be free from the pain of testing websites on swift for windows.
everyone use firefox and make my life easier!
happy developer
August 24th, 2006
at 12:29pm
Look at the bright side. I’m glad that Swift is being developed, because it makes our lives easier. Supporting Safari is a good thing, as long as you can charge for the additional time spent in development and testing.
Brian
October 9th, 2006
at 6:50pm
Greetings all,
I am a current MacOS X 10.4.8 user and I use Safari 2.0.4 and I believe that it is much better that using Internet Explorer 7; but, that is just me talking. Mr. Pirillo, I am nnot sure if you have ever used Safari vs. IE7, but I have found that the security and stabiltiy are 10x better, plus Safari does not crash like Internet Excplorer does. Ever since I started using broadband or ever dial-up, and I was alwas using IE and it alwas crashed out, even some of the BSOD’s were related to IE crashing.
colin harman
June 12th, 2007
at 5:20am
installing safari beta 3 caused my xp pro machine to die with ntldir missing error on boot! 3 hours of fun to start the day with an install, dont touch it yet!”!!!!
Lisa Lee
June 12th, 2007
at 5:26am
Are they in a mental institution BECAUSE of Safari?? Wow.. ;)
SocioBiblog
June 12th, 2007
at 7:50am
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