Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Safari for Windows
Safari for Windows
by Leo Watson - 6/11/07 11:38 AMhttp://www.apple.com/safari/
How very odd.
Something Wrong?
by tomstar3000 - 6/11/07 8:23 PM In reply to: Safari for Windows by Leo WatsonI tried loading Safari on two different XPsp2 machines and I can't see the words in the top menu bar (file, edit, view.. etc...) and about 25% of the browser text missing. Maybe I'm missing something!
Here's my fix
by onlycodered - 6/12/07 12:54 PM In reply to: Something Wrong? by tomstar3000I was able to fix this problem. Here's my guide to fixing it: http://grupenet.com/2007/06/12/fix-font-issue-in-safari-for-windows/
Safari & iPhone
by Taegugki - 6/14/07 1:05 AM In reply to: Something Wrong? by tomstar3000I believe they will make the iPhone dependent on Safari (win & OS X) as the iPod to the iTunes, so for iPhone OS updates, etc, they will have to log in to Safari. Plus Steve Jobs with Boot Camp on the Mac and Safari on Windows, he wants to start stealing Windows PC consumers and bring them to the Mac. It's all about the Market Share baby!
East ASian Language probs
by Taegugki - 6/14/07 1:07 AM In reply to: Something Wrong? by tomstar3000I'm having problems loading pages here in South Korea, the Korean characters do not show up on the page. And on certain sites, if I put text in search columns the browser crashes
Worst. Crap. Ever.
by SPIRIdk - 6/11/07 11:15 PM In reply to: Safari for Windows by Leo Watson*** just happened? Were Apple so keen on getting it out after WWDC, that they just released an early alpha batched as beta?
It's like the worst browser I've ever tried. It's rendering everything wrong. Have a look at Google results and CNET's site for examples. It crashes, and it is sooo ugly... 
This is embarrassing Apple, you would have been much better off waiting until you had a actual beta, instead of this piece of junk.
(NT) Agreed. Crashy on WIndows. Crashy on Mac.
by udayan71
- 6/12/07 3:27 AM
In reply to: Worst. Crap. Ever. by SPIRIdk
I'll go one better...
by davviau - 6/12/07 10:11 PM In reply to: (NT) Agreed. Crashy on WIndows. Crashy on Mac. by udayan71
...it's crashy on Firefox. I tried watching the demo video at apple.com and Firefox crashed!
David
no problems on either platform here
by Alegoo92 - 6/12/07 2:31 PM In reply to: Worst. Crap. Ever. by SPIRIdkOnly thing I noticed is on Windows some buttons were oddly sized in comparison to the search bar..
Alex
Hmm
by SPIRIdk - 6/13/07 12:11 AM In reply to: no problems on either platform here by Alegoo92So you say you have no problems with Safari for Windows not showing bold text?
Meh
by nelsondr - 6/12/07 2:03 AM In reply to: Safari for Windows by Leo WatsonIt seems odd that Apple would enter the browser fray this late in the game. I can only imagine that they are wanting to make it available to Window so that web site developers will make more sites work better with Safari.
I wasn't blown away with Safari in the 20 minutes or so that I tried it out. I downloaded it to my laptop, and one thing I didn't like is I couldn't scroll using the mouse pad. I actually had to click and drag on the side bar. As far as the pages that I visited they rendered OK. I wasn't too impressed with the smoothing of the fonts, but for the most part the pages looked alright.
I'll probably try the current version later on my desktop and we'll see if I'm impressed further by Safari. I think there is some potential there. Firefox already seems to do everything that Safari can do, and with the addition of extensions can probably do more. I'll definitely check it out again when it gets closer to coming out of beta.
I don't get it
by mjeffryes - 6/12/07 7:04 AM In reply to: Safari for Windows by Leo WatsonAfter struggling with Safari on my Mac for a few years, I wised up and installed Firefox. Why would Apple introduce a cross platform browser? This makes no sense. Overall very underwhelmed by the keynote. I don't see paying money for this upgrade. Is the this Apple's Windows Me? I see rough times for Apple on the horizon. The iPod pulled them from the brinks of demise and now it seems they are ignoring it. I doubt the Newton 2 will have much impact beyond the fan boy market. Ignoring the iPod will only allows others to eat up their coveted market share. iPhone competes in a space that Apple has never competed before, and those new competitors fight the fight in a much nastier way than Microsoft. Apple, focus on what has made you the darlings of the computing world, here is a hint: it's not your slight OS upgrades, web browser or the ability to make phone calls.
Not a slight OS upgrade
by Nicholas Buenk - 6/12/07 9:17 AM In reply to: I don't get it by mjeffryesSpaces, time machine, new finder and dock, core animation, 64bit API's. There are many major changes here.
Major Updates?
by mjeffryes - 6/14/07 5:36 AM In reply to: Not a slight OS upgrade by Nicholas BuenkI wouldn't call those major.
Spaces - a new way to switch between applications... yawn.
Finder - a different organization... I'm fast blinking back at my monitor.
Dock - icons that reflect on the bar... I actually laughed out loud that they bothered to call this out as a feature.
Core animation - A decent upgrade. If only there were games to play on the Mac.
64 bit - Welcome to the world of 64 bit processing. You beat MSFT by -5 years on this one. Congrats.
I'm not Mac basher at all. I typing this on my G5 iMac. This machine is getting towards 3 years old and it's time to replace. So far Apple hasn't shown my anything to keep purchasing their brand. My photo iPod sure is looking dated... If Apple doesn't release anything in that product line and with the Zune rumors swirling... I might have to unconvert.
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