Comments on: Safari for Windows!

By: macandwin

macandwin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:52:43 +0000

Btw, this is what I was talking about in previous email re: opening local files on a PC w/ Safari for Windows:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=997350&tstart=15

Anyone ever find a solution for this?

By: macandwin

macandwin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:45:53 +0000

Oops… Check that, Flash Plug-in 9 (9.0.47.0) not 8, Safari 3.0.2 and Win 2K.

By: macandwin

macandwin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:19:24 +0000

Oh, almost forgot, I stumbled across this site because I was looking for a fix for the fact that it still apparently CAN NOT, however, open local files on a PC.

By: macandwin

macandwin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:13:59 +0000

Safari 3 for Windows has improved a lot in 2 years.

I am currently running it on Win 2K with Flash Player 8 plug-in and it works great. “Snappy” as they say in the Mac world…

When I want to resize the window I simply hit the middle button in the upper right corner but dragging the bottom right corner is not too much work once you get used to it.

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:44:21 +0000

I didn’t misread you Edge. I just think that the statement “Safari uses a rendering engine which has some CSS problems” applies to all of the rendering engines out there. Are you suggesting that Trident and Gecko are perfect? It would be simple enough to construct a page that displayed fine in Safari but did not in one of those two. That doesn’t make the WebKit engine perfect.

By: Edge

Edge — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:55:43 +0000

"On the contrary, Safari traditionally has been at the front of the pack in terms of CSS compliance"

You mis-read what I said, which is that it uses a rendering engine which has some CSS problems. See my original post for specifics. For a practical example, see this page in Safari/Konqueror and then Firefox/IE/Opera.

By: Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:12:29 +0000

@kris: I certainly don’t doubt that many smart people work at Apple, and I’m surprised that you reached this conclusion from reading my post.

Also, you’ll notice that I already mentioned the iPhone earlier in the comments.

Finally, who bagged the iPod when it came out? People loved it from the word go!

By: kris

kris — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:49:53 +0000

Whatever you do, don’t bet against Steve Jobs and Apple. Sure they can make mistakes, but they’ll probably get it right most of the time than you.

What people like Mattew Magain forget is that they put lots of thought by many intelligent people at Apple. I’m sure they have their end goal, and worked on how to get there.

Apple will build some cool features into Safari. Think about a feature that lets people create iPhone widgets using Safari, just like in the Leopard preview for widgets on a Mac.

Soon you’ll have people installing Safari just after buying an iPhone. If millions of Windows users can put up with Windows, then Safari will be successfull, as long as Apple works to make it the best they can.

And I’m sure Apple have just ordered some Dell, HP, Acer to better test out Safari, because Safari for Windows on a Mac will probably always run the same, but it’s different in the Windows world where there are lots of hardware and software mix going.

Safari for Windows works well on my 2GHz Athlon machine.

People had so much valid points against the iPod, but the iPod ended up dominating.

Whatever you do, don’t bet against Apple and Steve Jobs.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:51:48 +0000

This is all about the iPhone, regardless of whether web developers get heartburn about it or not.

Safari for Windows will get better (beta, remember?), but it won’t go away. The end game for Apple is measured in the billions of dollars, so you know it’s about something more than a free browser.

By: mx3design

mx3design — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:42:28 +0000

I completely agree with your summary Matt.

I’m pleased this has been released, it makes developing and designing a whole lot easier – now I no longer have to fire up the dreaded ibook…