Comments on: Safari 3 For Windows First Look

By: RL

RL — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:32:55 +0000

iApple + iGoogle = iHappy

Food for thought:

1. Eric Schmidt is on the Board of both Apple and Google
2. Al Gore is on the board of both Apple and Google
3. Safari is the ‘app’ gateway for the iPhone
4. Google Maps is the only initial “we love” back-end service dependent app on the iPhone

To be continued…

http://safarissues.blogspot.com/

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:52:29 +0000

Jason:
Actually, what would be somewhat ironic and funny is if they implemented proxy support the way they do for itunes on windows, since iTunes pulls from IE for those settings.

On the other side, maybe they will build proxy support directly into Safari and have iTunes see if Safari is installed for it’s proxy settings first, if not, grab from IE.

Does anyone know how iTunes renders the ITMS right now? Does it use embedded IE on Windows? Is this doubling as an interesting way for Apple to bring a better rendering platform for iTunes on windows to the party? …or does itunes for windows already depend on the khtml (or whatever KDE library) for rendering?

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:57:35 +0000

On my Windows XP machine, Safari seemed to install OK, yet every time I tried to start the program it died right away with a “sorry for the inconvenience” error message.

Already have QuickTime and iTunes installed, no problems.

Am sad not to be able to try Safari.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:03:31 +0000

chuck:
On OS X the proxy settings are in the OS prefs not the app prefs so I’d guess that’s going to necessitate a somewhat significant code change before you can set it.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:54:58 +0000

The reason I use firefox on my mac is draggable (for rearranging) tabs and bookmarks synchronization (through foxmarks) between all my computers (whether windows or mac).

I was excited when I fired up safari beta 3 on my windows box, thinking it would allow me to use .mac syncing…I really hope the final release has that ability. The draggable tabs is a good enhancement.

I also had some issues with javascript, but I didn’t spend any time on determining if that was a site’s fault for deciding my browser couldn’t support it or if it was safari’s fault. I did notice rendering times were a decent improvement over firefox though.

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:19:31 +0000

Just loaded Safari, no errors, however;

1. Typically dumbed down interface for Apple users. Example, I use a Proxy program to filter embedded ads out of web pages. FireFox and IE work fine with this. The only thing I could find in Safari was a greyed our PROXIES button that did nothing.

2. Not very good looking program, the fonts seem harder to read and the border is boring and not very informative.

I’ll use it for awhile but my first impressions are.. “why??”

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:33:01 +0000

‘at least I got chicken’

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:26:37 +0000

ah yes, of course there are some problems with the Beta
Apple obviously didn’t have any PCs around to test it on.
‘Cause PCs are icky and give you cooties