Browsers: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows?
- 6/13/07 3:45 PM
Maybe...
by khicon - 6/14/07 9:38 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Again Firefox and IE are all that you really need. Speed, functionality, and features are both in Firefox and IE. Only reason I would switch if I was able to see some actual performance gain or new features that would prove to be useful over Firefox. Plus, my experience with iTunes has been horrendous as the whole task of syncing puts me off wanting to even use my iPod.
I'm already using it. (i don't like it)
by esipress1 - 6/14/07 10:01 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I downloaded the Q-Time and Safari yesterday 6-13-07 and followed the instructions. Upon launching Safari, all icons, menus, and places were there should be text there wasn't any. I spent most of the afternoon looking at the forums and there were other people having the same problem. Several suggested work a-rounds and fixes, moving fonts etc. none worked for me, it's still broken and has been removed.
I won't be going back to it anytime soon, Firefox is just great, IE is my backup and Opera is still in residence.
Thought about Safari on Windows
by DevinCurrie - 6/14/07 10:02 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Oh no.. not another browser.. :/ Nah I don't think there's any point for me to try it cuz I use Firefox on both platform.
Someone mentioned that Apple made Safari available on Windows platform because of compatibility with iPhone. If that's true, I question Apple's decision to develop Safari instead of working to make iPhone compatible with Firefox browser since it's open-source. If Apple wanted to keep certain line of their own code closed-source (ie. for security reason) and Mozilla require everything to be open source, perhap that is one of the reason why they've decided to develop Safari rather than making it work with Firefox? Just a thought.
Started Using It Immediately
by jasmine12298 - 6/14/07 10:02 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My home is full of Mac's (I have a PowerMac and a PowerBook, wife has a MacMini and daughter has my old G4 Cube). The reason I use Mac's is that they work, and that includes Safari which is the best browser I have ever used (FireFox crashes way more than Safari). Any Mac application that works on my piece of s%$^Windows machine I am gonna use it.
By the way, I have not totally set up Safari on my Windows machine yet but so far, so good.
checking it out
by Rick Beach - 6/14/07 10:04 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I just downloaded it on test computer I have since it is still a Beta. It is alright, I guess as beta's go. When it work's it very fast, but crash's alot right now in it's beta form. Will wait and see how it work's in it's final release .
Rick
We installed it yesteday...
by shohom67 - 6/14/07 10:08 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm always up for trying out something new, especially when IE7 is such a pain to use, but I wasn't as excited as the 12 year old boy we 'boy-sit' every week or so. He begged me to download it. He thinks, because of the way it looks, it's the greatest browser ever. (He also thinks anyone who doesn't worship 'Naruto' is crazy.) I know its early, but I'm still on the fence. It's certainly faster, but I couldn't load my Favorites as a whole. I have to add them one by one, ridiculous! Also, it took forever to get to the download page for plug-ins and then there wasn't anything of much interest there anyway. At least I didn't have to download Quicktime and iTunes with the download, although it was an option. I think it has promise. I also would have people recognise that this isn't the end of the Mac stuff, but it's certainly an admitance of who's the real boss, huh? (Sorry, I couldn't help myself)PC's rule!
Why would we need it?
by azevedob - 6/14/07 10:09 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The world doesn't need another web browser--the market is already flooded with browsers that make web development a headache. Introducing yet another browser into the market is only going to take time away from the web developers who should be focusing on creating more dynamic content rather than fixing bugs with inter-operability.
RE: Why would we need it?
by DevinCurrie - 6/14/07 2:19 PM In reply to: Why would we need it? by azevedobAgreed.
Not interested
by gulmer - 6/14/07 10:37 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use a PC but I"m not a Windows user.My OS is ubuntu and Firefox is what I use,good enough browser for anything I get into.Even if I was still using Windows,I'd still be into using Fierfox.
Safari testing
by Jago6060 - 6/14/07 11:20 AM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've never been a big Apple fan so before I even downloaded Safari I was biased. I downloaded it mainly for CSS website comparison(along with IE and FF). Agreeing with previous posts, Safari is quite broken as far as website compliance goes. And I've noticed more lag with Safari than with IE. Needless to say I think I'll be scrapping Safari shortly
Mac user
by gslrider - 6/14/07 12:43 PM In reply to: Safari testing by Jago6060I'm a 99.9% Mac user, and although I love my Mac, I don't even use Safari on my system. Many sites these days are catered to PCs. And Safari (much like IE 5 for the Mac) either didn't support special features of the site, or didn't work well with it. So I just use Firefox, which seems to work just fine.
Until web developers come up with something so that sites are cross-platform compatible, and Mac and PC developers find an app standard that both platforms can work with, PC users are better off sticking with Firefox or IE.
Tried and discarded it all within 15 minutes
by suirauqa - 6/14/07 1:12 PM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am not one of those rabid Mac-haters, or for that matter, equally rabid Mac-lovers. I prefer PCs, but I am comfortable using both platforms, and often test cross-platform applications. Safari in Macs offer some great features right-out-of-the-box. So I decided to try out the Safari for Windows. I admit I was enticed by its faster-than-Firefox promise at the Apple website.
Right at the beginning, I was hampered by its complete lack of integrated plugins for any web-based work; it did not have the ability to read PDFs, support Java, and play Shockwave and Flash content, RealMedia files, and strangely, even Apple's proprietary QuickTime files. The Apple webpage that lists these plugins for download only shows hyperlinks to the software manufacturer website, such as adobe.com for the PDF reader.
Safari for Windows did not recognize any of the programs (and corresponding plugins) already installed in my computer, such as Adobe Acrobat, Java JRE 1.6.0.1, QuickTime 7.1.6, RealPlayer 10, or Adobe (Macromedia) Flash and Shockwave players. The applications did not recognize Safari for Windows either. Reinstalling these applications from the manufacturers' website did not aid in recognition. So I was left with a reduced functionality browser. No wonder it SEEMS faster than the other browsers!!
I uninstalled it, and went back to my beloved Firefox.
I see no advantage to using Safari
by roninoz - 6/14/07 1:39 PM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm always ready to try out something new, so I downloaded and installed Safari. It works fine on my PC running Windows XP. But I can't see that it offers any features that I can't get on Internet Explorer or Firefox. One of my pet peeves -- and admittedly it's superficial, but aren't most pet peeves? -- is that I can't find a way to achieve a true Full Screen display in Safari. I really like the clean look of IE's Full Screen and the option to Auto Hide the Systray and the Toolbars. (Even the Full Screen in Firefox is funky, at least as it runs on my PC. There's a strip across the bottom of the screen that repeats the last inch or so of the image just above it.) So I doubt that I'll use Safari except as a novelty. Btw, if there is a way to auto-hide Safari's toolbars, I'd like to know how.
Slow... no real reason to
by mincor3456 - 6/14/07 2:12 PM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The new safari is slow and randomly sut downs when tying to watch a iPhone (omg shut up with the "i" stuff) commercial and it wouldn't load for some reason and it wouldn't let me login into windows hotmail
(who would have thought? go figure)but I must saythe blue bars are pretty but the grey theme is ugly
it also uses 60mb of ram just like the crappy new iTunes
steve jobs talks funny tee hee
Only because I'm a web developer
by ekesqueaky - 6/14/07 3:17 PM In reply to: Poll: Will you be trying Apple's Safari for Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I prefer Firefox, but have to install other browsers for testing. So I won't be using Safari regularly, but yes, I have it installed.
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