Just thought I’d put up a quick post because something cool happened today. Apple released a public beta for their browser Safari on Windows.
In fact, this post is being written on that very browser. I know you can yawn and be like, “wow, another browser … whoopty doo” but from my point of view, this is a pretty cool advancement. Now I can finally test any web development I do on a Mac even though I don’t own one anymore. Plus, any corporate website developers won’t have an excuse not to test against Firefox, IE, and Safari. It’s pretty cool actually. Plus, it just gives people who are considering switching to a Mac another opportunity to try it out.
Steve Jobs tried to say it’s faster at rendering pages or whatever but the truth is that when you’re stuck in Windows, it’s always nice when apple throws a bone thrown your way. Just installing Safari has gotten me thinking about getting a new Mac computer again which was probably their whole point.
You just have to wonder at what point you’ll basically be running Mac OS X on top of Windows.
Anyway, if you’re interested in checking it out, you can download the Safari 3 Beta here.
June 11th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I was just going to email Pinko Punko to alert him to the upgrade. FWIW, I think it’s about twice as fast as the last version of Safari at opening pages, and has fixed some weird browser incompatibility issues. So far it is rocking my world, and seamlessly.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:22 am
June 13th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Apparently, AG has some weird browser incompatibility issues.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Apparently this site sucks!!
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:26 pm
its a bit late, but safari finally introduces colour-managed browsing to windows. its the only browser on windows AFAIK that minds the embedded color profiles in images.