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 Monday, June 11, 2007

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OMG, Safari for Windows?

Now this is something I was never expecting... Apple has released Safari on Windows. That is a seriously bold move.

Are cross platform applications back in? This brings the major list of Apple Windows apps to:

  • iTunes
  • QuickTime
  • Safari
  • AirPort

Should we expect more? Aperture, iPhoto and iMovie would be welcome additions (in that order).

I wonder what Apple is up to? Is this a ploy to increase web compatibility of sites rendered in Safari? Is this a ploy to make the web look good on iPhone? Who benefits from this the most?

update: just finished playing with Safari. This is 100% a Mac program. There are no Windows Controls or anything in the app. In fact it looks like it's running on top of an emulation stack if you ask me. Does Apple have a Mac OS X Emulator for Windows? It looks like it... down to the Font Rendering.

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Monday, June 11, 2007 12:51:15 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Don't forget Bonjour and Apple Software Update ;-)
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:00:35 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
It's downright offensive looking. The fonts are horridly blurry and non-cleartype. It is in fact slower at rendering than firefox in my testing, definitely has more blank white page showing than firefox.
Peter
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:29:02 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
The iPhone uses Safari, so this is likely a bone for the phone devs that don't use Mac :-) In any case, hopefully this will result in real plugin support.

-D
David W
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:26:05 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
By controls, do you mean the buttons at the top and the chrome around it? The buttons and things in the HTML forms?

How can I see the font rendering differences? I'm looking right now at the same page in each browser, and I see things like line-height differences, but I think that's a CSS issue. The letters themselves look the same, or at least very, very close.

If they were emulating Windows, wouldn't that slow the program down (and they claim it's twice as fast)? Or is most of the delay in a web app from the HTML rendering and network delay?
Mark
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:53:48 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
The form control buttons (I'm presuming that's the buttons your referring to) only look like the OSX aqua style buttons when there's no CSS styling applied to them, once you apply CSS to them they can be styled like any other browser. This is also the case with the Safari 3 on OSX, it's been a feature in the WebKit nightlies for a while.
Rick Curran
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:27:23 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
@Mark & @Rick, honestly, I'm running Vista, not the Mac OS. I want my apps to look like Windows Apps, not Mac Applications.
Omar Shahine
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:47:32 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
You forgot Bonjour for Windows
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